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Lassa fever: diagnosis in hours
Developments in molecular diagnostics led to a swift diagnosis of Lassa fever in a 52-year-old British aid worker in March. Treatment has to be within six days of onset if the prognosis is to be good, so speed of diagnosis is vital.
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NHS can deliver second term
Beware ever-increasing interest in its progress by anxious Blairites
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Delegation of Dudley strikers meets health minister
Health minister John Denham and NHS head of private finance and capital Peter Coates last week met a delegation of striking Unison members from Dudley Group of Hospitals trust. About 600 mainly ancillary workers have voted for a fifth strike - for 10 days from Monday - against their transfer ...
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The three degrees
As the submissions were handed in, health authority senior managers learnt that they can expect a 3. 25 per cent pay rise.
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Scots lead way on fluoride debate
Scottish health minister Susan Deacon has announced a public consultation on putting fluoride into tap water.
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Days like this
The Department of Health has issued 'contradictory' regulations on the role of community health councils, CHCs claim. Though they now have the right to represent patients when family health services authorities hear complaints against GPs, rules issued last week say CHCs have 'no role in the relationship between a GP ...
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Super-aspirins: 'The same cost as M&S pay-offs'
Dr Boyle hinted that anti-clotting 'super-aspirins' could shortly be approved by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence.
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Well endowed: but still not cool and hip
The Liberal Democrats should really have felt at home in Bournemouth. Voted some years ago as the 'next coolest city on the planet', it has been waiting for its moment ever since.
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Confed warning on revalidation
The process of revalidating doctors will be compromised if employers are not on the five-yearly assessment panels proposed by the General Medical Council, according to the NHS Confederation.
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Lib Dems urge reprieve for CHCs
Liberal Democrats have urged the government to abandon its decision to abolish community health councils and reform them instead.
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Charlie takes it easy and waits for poll position
I must confess that I was called out of the NHS debate at the Liberal Democrat conference by an MP who wanted to talk about the chances of introducing proportional representation for Westminster elections.
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Public inquiry into Shipman case crimes confirmed
Health secretary Alan Milburn has confirmed that there will be a public inquiry into the issues surrounding the crimes committed by Hyde GP Harold Shipman, convicted in January of killing 15 of his patients and forging the will of one of them. Mr Milburn was ordered to rethink his decision ...
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Social care: the vicious circle
So, the secretary of state didn't really mean it. Social care is ostensibly reprieved from an NHS takeover, even though the Health Act flexibilities are to become compulsory and the threat of care trust status looms for poorly performing social care partners.
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Heart czar calls for inequalities in regional care to be redressed
'Heart czar' Dr Roger Boyle has said the cardiac care map of England needs to be redrawn to overcome an imbalance of treatment benefiting London and the South East.
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News in brief: British Heart Foundation survey
Ninety-four per cent of 156 British MPs who responded to a British Heart Foundation survey did not take enough exercise to protect their health, with 85 per cent blaming long hours and 58 per cent 'social commitments' for not managing to take 30 minutes of physical exercise five times per ...
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News in brief: Flu vaccination
The Northern Ireland Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety has launched a £1. 8m flu vaccination programme and public information campaign, aimed particularly at over 65-year-olds.
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News in brief: Jane Hutt
Welsh health secretary Jane Hutt has reopened the cardiac catheter laboratories of University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, which have been refurbished at a cost of £1. 25m.
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News in brief: Ethnic minorities
The British Medical Association's GPs'committee has written to the Commission for Racial Equality expressing 'grave concerns' about the 'victimisation' of single-handed GPs in the NHS plan. The majority of such GPs come from ethnic minorities.
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News in brief: Lord Hunt
Junior health minister Lord Hunt has said he will set up a national group to implement recommendations made by the Royal College of Surgeons last year on the future of kidney services. Patients, health professionals and clinicians will be involved. The college proposed to reduce the number of transplant units ...