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    More questions than answers

    2000-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Analysing Health Policy Edited by Alison Hann Ashgate 206 pages £37.50

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    Cash boost allows breast screening to be extended

    2000-12-14T00:00:00Z

    The Department of Health has confirmed that an additional £8m is to be allocated to the breast cancer screening programme to allow screening to be extended from next year to cover women aged between 65 and 70 .The extension of the mammography service will allow screening of an additional 400,000 ...

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    All white on the night: but not without risk

    2000-12-14T00:00:00Z

    This winter's unprecedented rains and flooding inevitably raise questions about the consequences of climate change on health.

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    Ah yes, I remember it well. . . .

    2000-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Or do you? An end-of-year quiz on the events of 2000

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    Framework 'signals end of ageism'

    2000-12-14T00:00:00Z

    The national service framework for elderly people, due to be published within weeks, will require the NHS to offer equal access to treatments and drugs regardless of age.

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    Consultant at abuse scandal hospital in new probe

    2000-12-14T00:00:00Z

    A consultant psychiatrist criticised for his 'passive' role in the Garlands Hospital patient abuse scandal in North Cumbria has been suspended from his management post.

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    Great Scot! Trust abolition could put NHS out of kilter

    2000-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Enormous upheaval will be watched carefully by English managers

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    Scottish NHS plan will abolish trusts

    2000-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Scotland's 28 hospital and primary care trusts are to be brought under health board control in a radical reorganisation at the heart of the Scottish health plan launched today. The move will end the purchaser-provider split in the Scottish NHS.

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    Extra £1bn will help fund key NHS objectives

    2000-12-14T00:00:00Z

    The English health service will have around £1bn of extra cash to implement the NHS plan next year, according to NHS Executive finance director Colin Reeves.

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    WEB WATCH

    2000-12-07T00:00:00Z

    If your nest egg is tied up in the NHS Pensions Agency, you may not be happy to discover that it managed a 5.6 per cent cut in the efficiency with which it used its resources last year, and that it is still only half way through reviewing the cases ...

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    Stealing the show

    2000-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Three-quarters of all new hospitals are built through PFI - so why is it that the public sector's payback costs are clouded in secrecy? John Mair battles for exposure

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    Pressure is on

    2000-12-07T00:00:00Z

    To overcome the shortage of physiotherapists, the UK is increasingly reliant on recruiting from overseas. But can it be done ethically? James Buchan reports

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    in person

    2000-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Management consultant Martin Hugh Vandersteen has been appointed chair of Barts and the London trust.He takes over from board member Elsie Gilding, who has been acting chair for four months.

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    Virtually perfect

    2000-12-07T00:00:00Z

    The NHS could soon have an electronic library if a new pilot works out. But will it ever be 'one of the great libraries of the world', wonders Lyn Whitfield

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    Share option

    2000-12-07T00:00:00Z

    One in three people will develop cancer. One in four will die from it. But a year after its formation, the Cancer Services Collaborative seems to offer significant hope for faster and better patient care.

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    monitor

    2000-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Monitor hates to be the bearer of bad tidings. But growing evidence confirming the burgeoning sense of humour at Denham Towers gave Monitor an idea.

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    Job-limbo woman sues

    2000-12-07T00:00:00Z

    A hospital consultant is suing the Scottish health trust that made her redundant after a five-year dispute.

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    'Investing for health' plans to lower NI mortality rate

    2000-12-07T00:00:00Z

    NHS managers will be expected to produce 'health and well-being investment plans' in a bid to rid Northern Ireland of some of the highest mortality and morbidity rates in the world, health minister Bairbre de Brun has announced.

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    NICE 'must listen to patients' on schizophrenia guidelines

    2000-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Campaigners have challenged the National Institute for Clinical Excellence not to ignore the views of people with mental health problems in its forthcoming schizophrenia treatment guidelines and assessment of antipsychotic drugs.