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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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NHS can deliver second term
Beware ever-increasing interest in its progress by anxious Blairites
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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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Things can only get. . . different?
The Lib Dems are still keeping - a bit of - faith with Labour, and blame the Conservatives rather than Tony Blair for the NHS's problems. Lyn Whitfield reports from their Bournemouth conference
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PCT directorships - fantastic offer shoppers can refuse
Sheffield health authority has taken to the streets in search of non-executive directors for the city's new primary care trusts.
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'Patient flow' proposal for Wales
Acute general hospital services in Wales should in future be planned to match 'patient flows' rather than health authority and trust boundaries, according to the report of the acute services development group.
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Germ warfare
Public health professionals need to regain the public confidence lost in the BSE crisis. Claire Laurent reports