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Toast fans feel the heat
A Scottish hospital has collected 280 illicit toasters following an amnesty.
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Flight of fancy
Three year-old Dillawar Syed investigates a bronze statue of Peter Pan created by Dairmuid Byron O'Connor and placed outside Great Ormond Street Hospital.Author JM Barrie gave all the rights to 'Peter Pan' to the hospital. Kit Palmer, head of development for Peter Pan, said the statue would provide a 'lasting ...
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Putting the wheels in emotion
Heart-rending appeals for potential bone marrow donors to help named individuals can spark the public imagination, but they can obscure the bigger picture, says Lynne Greenwood
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Doctors strengthen NHS plan opposition
GPs and hospital doctors have repeated and strengthened their opposition to key elements of the government's NHS plan.
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Dear Mel. . .
We have recently had a consultation exercise with the patients in our practice. Their main concerns are that they don't like children jumping up and down on the waiting-room chairs, and they are frightened of the practice nurse as she grinds her teeth when she is taking blood samples. What ...
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Days like this
Nurse suspended. . .More waiting lists. . .HEA alarm at shake-up. . .HAs launch health service lottery. . .Medical laboratory officer overpaid. . .
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Short Cuts: GP practices to go online by next year
Oxfordshire health authority has announced plans to link the county's 89 GP practices to the Internet and NHSnet by March next year. The plan will be taken forward with £282,000 from the government's £60m investment in IT announced in June. All Oxfordshire hospitals will also be linked to the new ...
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Piping cold
The new law - and trusts' own policies - to protect whistleblowers is yet to make an impact, and some staff groups may be loath to use them, writes Ann McGauran
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Concerns grow over clinical consequences of merger
Consultants and patient groups have signalled their opposition to a merger of trusts involved in a controversial £250m private finance initiative hospital rebuilding project.
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Short Cuts: Stem cell research and response welcomed
The Academy of Medical Sciences has welcomed the report of chief medical officer Professor Liam Donaldson on stem cell research and the government's response to it. The report, Stem Cell Research: medical progress with responsibility , recommends an extension of embryo research and says that research involving cell nuclear replacement ...
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Short Cuts: Minimum wage campaign to visit music festivals
Unison is planning to take its campaign to raise the minimum wage to music festivals in Reading, Leeds and Glasgow this bank holiday Monday - with support from Sid and Nancy the motorised wheelie bins, Rosa the nurse and 12ft-high puppets of political figures including chancellor Gordon Brown and shadow ...
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Week-long strike call as Unison members escalate PFI dispute
Unison members have voted for a week-long strike in a further escalation of their dispute over a private finance initiative deal in Dudley.
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In Brief: online consultation on the future of waiting lists
The British Medical Association in Scotland has launched an online consultation on the future of waiting lists, to feed into the forthcoming NHS plan for Scotland. Internal policy documents have been put on line for the first time and views can be e-mailed from the site.
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In Brief: consultation paper on data matching
The Public Audit Forum has published a consultation paper on data matching - the comparison of separate sets of personal data to identify differences that can be used as an audit tool, particularly in detecting fraud.
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In Brief: private finance initiative contract
Northern Birmingham Mental Health trust has signed a private finance initiative contract to replace two Victorian hospitals with smaller, purpose-built facilities, create five inpatient units and create a day hospital for older patients. The total value of the contract is £120m over its 35 years.
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In Brief: Greater Glasgow health council complaints
Greater Glasgow health council dealt with 425 complaints relating to NHS services last year - a 29 per cent increase on the previous year. Most of the increase was due to complaints about plans to site a secure unit in the grounds of Stobhill Hospital.