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Agricultural matters
A visitor to the Lincolnshire show is offered a healthy snack on an NHS stand organised by trusts and health authorities in Lincoln-shire. GPs, nurses and therapists offered healthchecks, advice on healthy living and diet. The local primary care trust also took the opportunity to tell the public about itself.
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Let's party like we did in '97
It's never too early to set out your agenda. As election fever begins to take grip, Lyn Whitfield looks at who's backing who and at what could be in store for the health service
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£5m found to cut NI waiting
Northern Ireland health minister Bairbre de Brun has found £5m to tackle waiting times while formally approving spending plans for the £53m found for Northern Ireland's health service in the Budget.
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Chair calls it a day at £6m overspend trust
The chair of Greenwich Healthcare trust has resigned as it struggles to cope with a £6m overspend on its £94m annual budget.
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Public to speak on £300m plan
Proposals to shift heart and lung services from the famous Harefield Hospital to a £300m development in west London's Paddington basin went to public consultation today.
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Stepping stones
Co-operation between health and social services in one area has created a successful intermediate care structure for elderly people, explains Barbara Hitchins
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Swings and roundabouts in Scotland
Scottish health minister Susan Deacon (below) announced an £8.4m boost for the NHS in Scotland which, she said, would fund an additional 110 medical and 210 nursing posts. Half of the 100 junior doctor posts will be for staff working in flexible posts. But the announcement was overshadowed by the ...
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Safety report restricted
An independent report into allegations of poor management and risks to patient safety at a leading radiology department will not be published in full.
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Quite unheard of
Therapy staff, asked for their opinions in the consultation on the national plan, said they felt stretched to capacity, ignored and hard done by compared with doctors and nurses. Enid Feather reports
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monitor
Many people in this country will remember the first summer of the millennium for just one thing: Euro 2000 - hopes of glory dashed by relentless post-match analysis of the society we live in. But some of us are set apart. Beyond the grubbiness, the squabbles and the face-painting. For ...
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NHS 'short of local leaders'
The NHS is 'desperately short of leaders at local level', a senior NHS Executive director warned delegates.
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Remember inequalities are not just a health issue
The World Health Organisation report (news, page 7, 22 June) values our NHS, but also emphasises the inequalities which cause ill-health.
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As long as GPs are paying, they will want a say
The article on stress in general practice examined the relationship between GPs and practice nurses, and between GPs and practice managers, but did not examine one of the fundamental determinants of those relationships.
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Government to look at but then reject private insurance
The national plan for the NHS will examine but 'firmly reject' a move towards private medical insurance, health secretary Alan Milburn announced during an attack on Conservative health policy.
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Glasgow rangers
The Gorbals has got a bit of a reputation - infamous, notorious, hard. Just the sort of place for a coach party of senior NHS managers, in fact.
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Kennedy reaches for his sandbag in a fit of pique
Tucked away in the prime minister's speech to fellow-theologists in Tubingen, the one which suggested on-the-spot fines for Saturday night lager louts, was a heartfelt passage about the pace and pressure of change - in the middle of what Tony Blair called 'the greatest economic, technological and social upheaval' since ...