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    Days like this

    2000-10-05T00:00:00Z

    Half the population will have private medical insurance by the year 2000 compared with the current 12 per cent, actuary George Orros has predicted. He claims this will happen even without tax incentives, but would depend on the industry developing innovative schemes for treatment by GPs and hospital doctors below ...

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    Danger of fees ignoring patient dependency

    2000-10-05T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    N. Ireland to get nurse consultants

    2000-10-05T00:00:00Z

    Nurse consultant posts have been introduced to Northern Ireland by health minister Bairbre de Brun.

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    Nurse consultant posts unveiled in Northern Ireland

    2000-10-05T00:00:00Z

    Northern Ireland health minister Bairbre de Brun has introduced nurse consultant posts. Health and social services boards put forward 27 proposals, of which eight were selected by a taskforce set up in October last year. Each nurse consultant will spend at least half their time on clinical work. They will ...

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    RCN picks independent consultant as president

    2000-10-05T00:00:00Z

    Independent consultant Roswyn Hakesly-Brown has been elected president of the Royal College of Nursing. Ms Hakesly-Brown is a member of the union's national forum co-ordinating committee and a clinical governance fellow at the West Midlands Partnership. She will begin a two-year term of office after the RCN's annual general meeting ...

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    Concordat loses its voice

    2000-10-05T00:00:00Z

    Health secretary Alan Milburn appeared to go out of his way to antagonise the private health sector in his party conference speech. The Conservatives were, he claimed, 'the political wing of the private health insurance movement'.

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    Trust chief chosen to head Turning Point charity

    2000-10-05T00:00:00Z

    Newcastle City Health trust chief executive Lionel Joyce has been appointed as a trustee and chair-designate of drink, drugs, mental health and learning difficulties charity Turning Point. Mr Joyce, who has faced alcohol and mental health problems of his own, said he was 'delighted' to accept leadership of the charity. ...

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    HA-funded charity had 'weaknesses'

    2000-10-05T00:00:00Z

    A charity commission investigation has concluded that the trustees of a Warrington-based charity for people with learning disabilities allowed themselves to become 'over-reliant' on the chief executive.

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    A clear case of. . .

    2000-10-05T00:00:00Z

    'I n the absence of evidence of consistency and transparency at all stages of the General Medical Council fitness to practise procedures, it remains difficult to demonstrate that all doctors in all cases are treated fairly, although there is no evidence that they are not. '

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    Conservatives promise cheaper private care

    2000-10-05T00:00:00Z

    The Conservative Party conference this week heard leaders' plans for a massive expansion and 'shake-up' of private healthcare to outstrip total Labour health spending.

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    Cancer research millions 'fall short'

    2000-10-05T00:00:00Z

    The extra cash pledged by the government for cancer research between now and 2003 is well below what is needed to bring services up to standard, according to a leading charity.

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    Payoffs report calls for standardised contracts

    2000-10-05T00:00:00Z

    A scathing report into a series of pay-offs totalling more than £1m to eight former executive directors of Northern Ireland health bodies has called for standardised employment contracts.

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    Built to last

    2000-10-05T00:00:00Z

    London Open House has been giving residents of the capital a chance to peek inside buildings normally closed to the public for eight years.

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    Bristol heart figures improve on eve of inquiry report

    2000-10-05T00:00:00Z

    The Bristol Royal Infirmary inquiry into the management of the care of children receiving complex heart surgery at the Bristol Royal Infirmary in the 1980s and early 1990s should be published early in the new year. Last week, the United Bristol Healthcare trust published its latest audit report for heart ...

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    Brighton rock

    2000-10-05T00:00:00Z

    In an impassioned debate, words such as 'dignity', 'pride', 'body and soul' rang out across the floor of conference.

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    In Brief

    2000-10-05T00:00:00Z

    Leaders of four national organisations representing GPs have warned the government it must 'fully engage' the GP workforce as it implements the NHS plan. The chairs of the British Medical Association, National Association of Primary Care, NHS Alliance and Royal College of General Practitioners met last week to decide on ...

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    Deacon rejects free personal care but boosts home-based support

    2000-10-05T00:00:00Z

    Scottish health minister Susan Deacon is expected to announce today that the recommendations of the Sutherland report on longterm care will not be implemented in full.

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    Blanket opposition to team bonus schemes

    2000-10-05T00:00:00Z

    NHS unions and employers may have clashed over the scale of this year's pay settlement, but they appear united in their lack of enthusiasm for the team bonuses due to be piloted next year.