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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 ...
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Lay group formed to lobby for PCT board changes
A National Association of Lay People in Primary Care has been launched to lobby for changes in the board structure of primary care trusts. Nicholas Reeves, the association's founder and a lay member of Acton and Ealing primary care group in London, said there was a danger that the 'expertise' ...
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High blood pressure causes most strokes in UK
An organisation has been launched to draw attention to the issue of high blood pressure, which affects 10 million people in the UK, is the most important cause of strokes and is one of three key factors in heart attacks. The Blood Pressure Association says almost half of all individuals ...
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Blair spells out NHS promises
Prime minister Tony Blair used his speech at the Labour Party conference to hammer home the government's plans for the NHS, should it win a second term.
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On best behaviour
The full force of the Human Rights Act is about to hit health service employers with a sledgehammer. Colin Wright reports
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News in brief: Bairbre de Brun
Northern Ireland health minister Bairbre de Brun has indicated support for co-operation with health services in the Irish Republic. In a speech to a British Medical Association conference, she said there was 'most' scope for joint work on ambulance services, emergency pressures, waiting lists and transferring patients who needed specialised ...
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Would you like cash back?
Yes, please, says the BMA - about 14 per cent would do nicely. As the annual pay review tussle hots up, Laura Donnelly and Tash Shifrin find out who wants what, and how badly
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Taken short: the digital approach
The current shortage of nursing staff willing to take up an NHS contract has firmly shifted the balance of power away from trusts and towards the agencies, contributing to the rapid increase in agency costs since the mid-1990s. But one company claims it can reverse this trend.
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One in three physiotherapists comes from abroad
A report from the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy has found that one in three physiotherapists entering the UK labour market comes from overseas, with Australia, South Africa and New Zealand the main sources. Most enter the UK for short periods and work in temporary positions in the NHS. CSP chief ...
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24 reach shortlist for HSJ management awards night
Twenty-four entries in this year's HSJ Health Management Awards have reached the shortlist.
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British 'think welfare state will perish by 2050'
People in Britain expect the welfare state to disappear over the next 50 years, according to a MORI survey for right-wing think-tank the Adam Smith Institute.
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£70m earmarked to treat dangerous disorders
The Home Office is putting £70m behind a threeyear programme of pilot projects for treating people with dangerous severe personality disorder.