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It's two weeks since Monitor threw down the gauntlet, challenging readers to send in evidence of health minister John Denham's GSOH. And one Louise Martin has e-mailed Monitor Towers, offering two exhibits in his defence. Ms Martin, who claims to be an employee of building giant Alfred McAlpine, suggests that ...
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Loosening the ties
Two managers reveal to Maura Thompson the challenges and benefits of working in very different areas of the independent sector
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Scaife leaves: it's official
Months of speculation over the future of the chief executive of the NHS in Scotland have ended this week with the announcement that Geoff Scaife is to step down.
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Go-ahead for PCTs leaves GPs 'gutted '
Ministers this week announced 12 primary care trusts to start in October. But the decision to create Central Manchester PCT and North Manchester PCT in the face of objections from doctors and community staff has sparked anger.
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Darkness at noon
Part of their lives: community care for older people with dementia By Jo Moriarty and Sarah Webb The Policy Press 118 pages £14.99
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Deacon starts recess under dark skies
The last two weeks of Scotland's parliamentary year were designated 'good news weeks' by the government's spin doctors, but could hardly have been worse for health minister Susan Deacon.
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Short Cuts: Health 'Oscars' winners dubbed 'trailblazers'
Health secretary Alan Milburn presented the Nye Bevan awards - dubbed the 'NHS Oscars'- to eight healthcare teams as part of NHS Week 2000 last week. A new 'lifetime achievement' award was jointly made to Jenni Thomas, a maternity and neo-natal bereavement facilitator from south Buckinghamshire, and Professor Jillian Mann, ...
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Committee split 'saddens' veteran
The government's plans to work more closely with the private sector to plug gaps in NHS provision have come under attack from the chair of the Commons health select committee.
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Short Cuts: 'Clear vision' for NHS needed in national plan
Left-wing think tank the Institute for Public Policy Research has urged the government to set out a 'clear vision' for the NHS in the national plan to be published at the end of the month. The IPPR says the government's extra funding presents an 'exciting opportunity' to secure a tax ...
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Trusts clamp down on free condoms
Two community trusts have defended decisions to stop providing free condoms to prostitutes and HIV-positive gay men, at a time when infection has reached record levels nationwide.