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Edgware probe sparks national guidance rejig
A government watchdog has called for changes to NHS Executive guidance in the wake of its investigation into the controversial hospital reconfiguration in Edgware.
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In a domestic vacuum?
A toilet like the one in the film Trainspotting was just one of the horrors flushed out by hospital cleanliness inspectors, but will government clean-up plans get to the root of the problem, asks Alison Moore
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'Deprived' HAs will not be 'stuck on red' as traffic light is tweaked
The controversial traffic-lights system for measuring performance will be adjusted to ensure that NHS organisations in deprived areas are not stuck on red, promises the Department of Health.
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Dear Mel. . .
I have to give a presentation to a group of nurses next week and they have specifically asked for an explanation of the Belbin technique. Can you tell me what it is?
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Days like this
Private hospitals have complained to the Department of Health that health authority managers are failing to consider them for contracts to provide services to NHS patients under the internal market reforms.The Independent Healthcare Association says its members are facing unfair discrimination, and claims that HA managers are interpreting the DoH's ...
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New inquiry to probe 'Labour PCT cronies'
The commissioner for public appointments is to investigate primary care trust board appointments, following renewed allegations that Labour is filling boards with its cronies.
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'Concordat'boom for private sector
The 'concordat' between the NHS and the independent healthcare sector has sparked a sharp rise in health service work contracted to private hospitals.
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Threatened committee criticises government data
Medical practices committee chair Ro Day has written to health secretary Alan Milburn to express 'serious concern' about the government's use of 'incorrect and misleading' information to justify the proposed abolition of the committee and its replacement with a financial formula. The government's claim that there are 50 per cent ...
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The generation claim
Worries are mounting that support for the NHS is dwindling among young people. But the evidence suggests the truth is more complicated, says Shirley McIver
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Rallying round: as chief executive Ken Williams steps down, support steps up
Ken Williams' wife Jenny is director of health improvement and commissioning at Milton Keynes primary care trust.
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Travellers' checks
If people will travel to Belgium to buy a new car, why can't they do the same for a hip operation? Is a European health market about to open up? And if so, how will the NHS fare in the stormy waters of competition? Martin Wakeley reports
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'Caveman catering'
The NHS plan says half of all hospitals must have 'ward housekeepers' by 2004 to ensure food from the new menus is served hot and well presented and that patients can eat it.
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NHS catering: the dismal reality
You are a middle-aged man coming round from a minor but painful op in a sensitive area. What would you like to eat? Chicken soup, an egg and cress sandwich, jacket potato and chocolate mousse? That was supper one December evening for Roy Whitfield at Princess Margaret Hospital in Swindon. ...
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'Mass caterers got us into this mess'
Loyd Grossman, best known as the Through the Keyhole presenter with strangled vowels, is heading the panel of celebrities 'overseeing' the overhaul of hospital food. He has a long record as a food journalist - as a restaurant critic for Harpers and Queen and presenter of Masterchef. But it is ...
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Let's spend the cash together
To go it alone, join other trusts or contract out? Seamus Ward looks at challenges facing NHS procurement purchasers
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Scotland set for longterm care funding
The Scottish Parliament was set to make a sharp break from English policy on funding elderly people's long-term care this week.
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Funding shortfall as intermediate care loses out to local pressures
Concerns about a funding shortfall for intermediate services have loomed after it emerged that most of the new money, about £500m, has been allocated to local authorities without being ringfenced.