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In brief: Cambridge ambulance crews
Cambridge ambulance crews have been given a special hotline to request CCTV control room staff to monitor calls to potentially hazardous situations. The cameras already perform this service for the police. East Anglian Ambulance trust has promised to support the prosecution of anyone caught assaulting staff.
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Ahead of the game
Most of the large, acute private finance schemes have been driven by the need to rationalise disparate units on to one site. Leeds Community and Mental Health trust is using PFI to do the opposite - the trust needs a range of accommodation on sites scattered around the city.
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'Save A&E' campaign hits HA
Health authorities covering Brighton and Haywards Heath have been forced to defend themselves from a newspaper campaign to 'save' a local accident and emergency department.
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Not just acute idea
The private finance initiative's sphere of influence is spreading far beyond the acute hospitals of the first wave - a trend further boosted by the NHS plan. Seamus Ward reports
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MPs press for CHC abolition meeting
MPs on the House of Commons all-party committee on community health councils are to meet ministers for urgent discussions in the wake of the NHS plan's decision to abolish CHCs.
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One 2 One argument
London's Hammersmith Hospitals trust has defended accepting £20,000 from a mobile phone company in return for the use of Charing Cross Hospital's name in a television advertisement.
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WEB WATCH
For an organisation which tends to attract managers at an early age and keep them for life, the NHS has never been that good at maintaining a collective memory. Its tendency to look for scapegoats when things go wrong and willingness to sacrifice whole generations of managers to organisational change ...
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Turning up the volume
London's large Bengali population is benefiting from a local Bengali-speaking audiology services worker. Brian Hall and Dr Tony Sirimanna report
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Serving from the shadows
It's not always a fair and open process, nor is it always straightforward. Judith Smith and colleagues report on appointments to PCG boards
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in person
Peter Coles , acting chief executive of Forest Healthcare trust, is to become chief executive of the new Whipps Cross Hospital trust when it is formed next April. The new trust will manage the general hospital services currently run by Forest Healthcare. Mr Coles was previously chief executive of the ...
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monitor
Great to hear that even bouncer Milburn's special advisers have a sense of humour! Hard to imagine, though! Still, news in from one of Monitor's special friends to reveal that the day after the NHS plan emerged, the following message was heard on the answerphone at special advisers HQ: 'Our ...
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Minister steps in to organ row
Scottish health minister Susan Deacon has agreed to meet parents and relatives of babies and children whose organs were removed and kept by an NHS hospital.
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Less is more
That the NHS plan has so little to say on mental health is actually a sign that the government is pretty much on the ball in this area. Laura Donnelly explains the paradox
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It's good for systems to talk
'It looks like we are inventing the wheel again, and it's going to be square'
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Welsh waiting lists record rise and fall in numbers
Welsh waiting lists have dipped again, falling 400 in the month to the end of July to 80,111.