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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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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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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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Deprived areas hit by underspending
Some of the most deprived areas outside London are spending well below the money nominally allocated for mental health services, according to a national survey by researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry.
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In brief: British Medical Association
The British Medical Association in Scotland has called for a 'new culture of openness and transparency' in dealing with organ retention. Scottish secretary Dr Bill O'Neill said overprotective doctors had tried to 'shield' parents from the details of post mortems, but the public outcry over organ retention showed that this ...
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Medical director quits while cardiac services probe hangs in the balance
The medical director of Oxford Radcliffe Hospital trust has resigned as it awaits the findings of an inquiry into cardiac services.
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Deficit increased at Bart's as a result of directive
Implementing the EU working-time directive has added £1.6m to the income and expenditure deficit of Barts and the London trust, according to a report to its board. The trust had an income and expenditure deficit of £2.98m at the end of 1999-2000 and all but one clinical directorate were overspent. ...
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Grin and bear it?
Graffiti is already daubed on the otherwise pristine walls of the children's ward in the brand new Cumberland Infirmary. 'Tony Blair was here, 16 June 2000, ' reads the scrawl. He really ought to know better at his age. But perhaps he was incited to autograph the wall by the ...
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Present imperfect, but better than future ghastly
Time to rethink proposed abolition of community health councils
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Biotech firm 'will not charge'NHS for breast cancer tests
Scottish biotechnology firm Rosgen has announced that it does not plan to charge the NHS for carrying out tests for mutations in two genes linked to breast cancer.
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Blair and Milburn split on criteria for new chief executive of NHS
Health secretary Alan Milburn is caught in a row between the Department of Health and Number 10 over who to appoint as NHS chief executive, HSJ understands.
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Mental health blueprint spells out safety plan for the young
Mental health experts have drawn up a blueprint detailing how the government should deliver its promise to guarantee early and intensive support for young people with psychosis.
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A bluffer's guide to project finance
Bonds An alternative to bank finance which, depending on market conditions and the risks associated with a project, may be cheaper, if less flexible.
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Sweeping the board
The primary care trust tool kit A workbook for the health service and primary care team By Roy Lilley Radcliffe Medical Press 200 pages £30
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The name's Bond
You might prefer to leave management of the PFI investment to the advisers, but, as Paul Whittlestone explains, a basic grasp of corporate finance could be handy
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In brief: Resuscitation policy
Trust chief executives must ensure that by next April all hospitals have a local resuscitation policy in place that follows new guidelines issued on Tuesday by health secretary Alan Milburn. This follows last winter's outcry over a number of 'do not resuscitate'orders. The policy must be made available to patients ...
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In brief: Dudley Group of Hospitals trust
About 600 Unison members have begun a week-long strike against transfer out of the NHS in a private finance initiative deal at Dudley Group of Hospitals trust. The mainly ancillary workers have already staged a two-day and a four-day strike. Last week, West Midlands regional office chair Clive Wilkinson visited ...