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Firm under attack for costs will bid for TV and phone contract
One of the prime contenders for a multi-million-pound contract to provide a television and telephone at every NHS bedside has been criticised for the cost of the service already provided at some hospitals.
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Beta interferon appeals flood in
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence has received eight appeals against its decision on the use of beta interferon in the treatment of multiple sclerosis.
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Scots call for ban on amputations of healthy limbs
Scottish polticians have called on Scottish health minister Susan Deacon to initiate legislation preventing the amputation of healthy limbs anywhere in Scotland following an application by Robert Smith, a surgeon at Falkirk and District Royal Infirmary, to carry out the procedure at a private hospital. Mr Smith caused controversy earlier ...
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Health managers to allocate budgets for CJD care
Chief medical officer Professor Liam Donaldson has advised health managers to use Health Act powers to create pooled budgets that can be 'activated when necessary' to care for Creutzfeldt Jakob disease sufferers. In guidance for healthcare workers on dealing with the disease, Professor Donaldson says patients with degenerative conditions, such ...
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Service of all talents
Job opportunities in the health service for people with learning disabilities are growing - and proving beneficial to employer and employee, writes Harriet Gaze
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Specialists to aid GPs with asylum seekers
Leicestershire health authority has promised to bring in a team of specialist nurses and link workers to help GPs cope with an influx of more than 400 asylum seekers, many with serious mental and physical illnesses.
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Police reject leukaemia death protest against
Liberal Democrat MP and Isle of Wight GP Peter Brand is to face no further action over remarks he made in the House of Commons in January during a debate on the proposed Medical Treatment (Prevention of Euthanasia) Bill, which subsequently failed. Hampshire police received a complaint after Dr Brand ...
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1066 and all that
When King Harold got it in the eye, there was no anaesthetic, no blood transfusion - not even a pair of spectacles. A new chronology ofmedicine should add a little perspective to those with tension headaches. Lynne Greenwood reports
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Waste not, want not
Disposing of drugs people bring with them when they are admitted to hospital is a problem that costs the health service dear. Debbie Campbell and colleagues have a solution
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Signs of the times
Two pages of the NHS plan are given over to a collection of signatures from the great and the good. HSJ asked a handwriting expert to tell us what they revealed.
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Time to shape up
Primary care groups and primary care trusts have exciting freedom to decide on their preferred organisational model.
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in person
Paul Gocke has been appointed chief executive of the new North East London Menta l Hea lth trust , which will take over management of acute and community mental health services provided by BHB Health Care trust, Redbridge Health Care trust and Forest Healthcare trust.He has been deputy chief executive ...
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Pick your own
Does the NHS plan deliver on Tony Blair's grand vision for transforming the delivery of public health, or is it just a list of things to do? Lyn Whitfield looks at what it has to offer
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Timetable warning for NHS plan
London regional director Nigel Crisp has warned the chief executives of the capital's health authorities, trusts and primary care trusts that there will be a 'very complex and very long' process to implement the NHS plan.
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Private sector may have to pay when patients transfer to NHS
Government and private healthcare negotiators are locked in talks about whether the private sector should pick up the tab when its patients are transferred to NHS intensive care.
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