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In brief: Northern Ireland Ambulance Service
The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service has been given a national award for bravery, for acts of outstanding courage and heroism.The Ambulance Service Institute's bravery award medal has never been presented to an entire ambulance service before.
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Mirror, mirror on the wall, is Lenin or Liam the most risk-averse of them all?
Talk of health department supremo Nigel Crisp being on TV! Last week there was so much public health news around that it was the chief medical officer, Professor Liam Donaldson, who was scarcely off the silver screen.
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NHS Pensions Agency 'may be liable for loss'
The NHS Pensions Agency could be held liable for the loss of pension benefits of some of the 18,000 NHS employees who had money invested in troubled insurance company Equitable Life, according to a leading insurance lawyer.
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'Patient advocate'plans aimed at taking sting from CHCs' abolition
The government has conceded ground on the need for independent advocates to support patients' complaints against the NHS, following the decision to abolish community health councils.
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DoH gives £700m push to IT roll-out
An additional £700m is to be allocated to NHS information technology over the next three years to support the implementation of the targets set out in the NHS plan.
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£200m for sterilisation facilities to help combat CJD
The government has announced that £200m will be spent on modernising sterilisation facilities in the NHS over the next two years, to minimise the risk of transmission of variant CJD. The money will be used to provide new sterilisers and washer disinfectors, with £100m in 2001-02 coming from the Department ...
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1,300 consultants needed for labour ward services
The NHS needs an extra 1,300 consultant obstetricians and gynaecologists to provide adequate labour ward services, according to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. The figures are based on government measures to bring in consultant-based services. The RCOG says 200 extra consultants are needed to meet existing guidelines that ...
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A tome of their own
The NHS plan for Scotland is, says the minister, 'not about restructuring the system, but rewiring it'.Maura Thompson reports on an attempt to rid Scotland of its reputation as one of Europe's health blackspots
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'I can see you now'
Government-funded online centres are providing new treatment opportunities for those with mental health problems. Claire Laurent reports
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Take the money and run?
Are managers being paid over the odds when their contracts are terminated? And why do NHS employers refuse to reveal severance payments in defiance of official guidance? Seamus Ward reports