All News articles – Page 1962
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Days like this
A £2m contract with management consultants to prepare West Midlands regional supplies organisation for the internal market has come under fire from the district general managers of financially pressed health authorities. They have voiced concern at the money paid to United Research while hospitals are closing beds to make ends ...
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Strawberry fields for ever
The oldest non-executive director in the country, Sir Sidney Hamburger has devoted his career to the staunch support of the NHS. Jeremy Davies reports
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RCN fears UKCC could fall foul of human rights law
The Royal College of Nursing says it is concerned that the UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting may be acting in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights - which guarantees a right to a fair trial - because it acts as judge, jury and prosecutor ...
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Reeves to quit NHS on a fiscal high note
NHS director of finance and performance management Colin Reeves is to leave the service after 16 years, seven of which were on its top board. His departure in spring 2001 will follow a shake-up of the NHS Executive's finance function.
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Joining forces
The promises of 'zero tolerance'have come to nothing, so is it time for an NHS police force to protect staff from attacks, asks Alison Moore
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Formulary won
An acute trust has worked with a PCG to produce a joint formulary in under a year. Facilitator Heather Walker outlines the project
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Reeves leaves funds and friends
NHS Executive's departing finance director triumphed over tough times
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House of unrepresentatives
Ethnic minorities, the young and those in traditional full-time employment have largely been excluded from lay membership of PCGs. David James and Maxine Willitts report
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Talking point
To combine his twin NHS roles of permanent secretary and chief executive, Nigel Crisp has to pull off a tricky balancing act. But he is determined to be accessible - and communicative - he tells Laura Donnelly in an exclusive interview
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Whistle stop tour
A worried manager voiced her concerns about Oxford Heart Centre a year ago. Some of those involved have left, but no-one has been fired. Laura Donnelly and Claire Laurent report
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WEB WATCH
'Fog everywhere.Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping, and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city. . . Fog in the eyes and throats of ancient Greenwich pensioners, wheezing by ...
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150 million prescriptions 'await processing'
Shortages of generic drugs have produced 'a crisis' in prescription processing, the chief executive of the Prescriptions Pricing Authority has said.
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£5.2m private grant for asthma medicine research
Glasgow School of Respiratory Science is to receive a £5.2m grant from Japanese pharmaceutical company Kyorin to develop existing research into creating a range of asthma medicines. The National Asthma Campaign for Scotland has welcomed the investment as Scotland has seen a 50 per cent increase in asthma cases over ...
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Housing gets £44m from health budget
Scottish health minister Susan Deacon has come under attack after it was discovered that she has agreed to transfer £44m from the health budget to help cut Glasgow city council's £1bn housing debt.