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Boroughs' bid to go to Lords over appeal court ruling
Four local authorities are applying for leave to appeal to the House of Lords after failing to overturn a High Court decision that four people sectioned under the 1983 Mental Health Act were not required to pay for specialist accommodation after they were discharged from hospital. The Appeal Court ruled ...
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New ambulance trust chief needs Ken's capital ideas
Extra funding alone will not cure emergency service's many ills
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NHS plan faces race allegation
A doctors' leader has referred the NHS plan to the Commission for Racial Equality on the grounds that it may discriminate against ethnic, singlehanded GPs.
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Backlog of tests after donor plea
A family's appeal for a bone marrow donor has left the National Blood Authority struggling with a backlog of 3,000 unchecked blood samples.
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Race equality advisers appointed in Wales
Two race equality advisers are to work within the NHS in Wales. Michael Banner and Dee Hines-Johnson are being employed by Bro Taf health authority in posts funded by the Welsh Assembly for two years. Mr Banner has worked on race and equality issues for 12 years. Ms Hines-Johnson has ...
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West Surrey HA ads were not misleading
The Advertising Standards Authority has dismissed a complaint about West Surrey health authority and Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals trust by MP David Wilshire.The MP complained that the advertisements about the future of emergency services at Ashford Hospital were misleading.The ASA concluded they were not.HA chief executive Jenny Griffiths said ...
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News: Dental action plan
Scotland has decided to spend part of its share of the additional money raised by increased tobacco taxes on a three-year programme to provide free toothbrushes and toothpaste for infants in deprived areas. The initiative is part of a dental action plan announced this week. One target is that 60 ...
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Generics price rise hits NHS for £200m
The full cost to the NHS of last year's jump in generic drug prices has been revealed as £200m.
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WEB WATCH
Three years ago, fewer than a million people in this country made use of the Internet - around 2 per cent of the population. Since then, growth has been dramatic: one estimate suggests nearly 20 million people are now online, and National Statistics says 6.5 million households in the UK ...
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Talking it through
Nurses found a lot to like in the NHS plan, but. . . Laura Donnelly reports from a summer school for nurse leaders on the profession's worries for the future
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Recipe for success
The trained nurse's teaching pack No 2 By Gill Early and Sarah Miller Age Concern 69 pages, 39 overhead transparencies £35+£1.99 p&p
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in person
Melvyn Ellis will be leaving Herefordshire health authority at the end of October to become chief executive of South Staffordshire health authority. Mr Ellis has worked in Herefordshire for almost five years and seen through a number of developments, including a new hospital for Hereford.
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A new way through
How can primary care organisations and hospitals ensure effective integrated care? Donald Light and Michael Dixon suggest collaborative contracting is the key
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monitor
Monitor likes to think of itself as a benign force; the voice of humanity, perhaps, in an ever-changing world. Imagine the shock, then, to find that one of Monitor's treasured readers had taken offence at attempts to provide a wee bit of cheeky relief amid the torrents of national plannery. ...
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News: Trust merge
North East Lincolnshire trust and Scunthorpe and Goole Hospitals trust have welcomed ministerial approval to merge the two organisations from 1 April next year.
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Points mean prizes
Junior health minister Lord Hunt has launched a scheme with high street retailer Boots to encourage people to become organ donors.
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News: Worthing and Southlands Hospitals trust
All 3,000 staff at Worthing and Southlands Hospitals trust have been asked to 'tighten their belts' in a letter from chief executive Martin Smits as part of plans to reduce the trust's £3m overspend, which was £4m at the end of March.
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Money for old hope
Clinical genetics have been transformed since the mapping of the genome. Patrick Butler reports on a Scottish case that could have far-reaching repercussions