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Short Cuts: A&E will escape unscathed from £7m savings push
West Surrey health authority has pledged to leave accident and emergency services untouched at the start of a second phase of consultation on building a 'sustainable' NHS. The HA needs to find £7m savings on top of £11m already identified in the first phase of the consultation exercise. It had ...
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24-hour access pledge
The government's newly appointed mental health 'czar' has pledged to introduce 24- hour access to mental health services by April next year and phase out mixed-sex accommodation with-in two years.
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Legal action and picket threat to HA over plans to dismantle PCG
Doctors have threatened to take Manchester health authority to court over plans to break up a primary care group, while health visitors have warned they will picket the HA's headquarters in protest.
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Short Cuts: Livingstone bides time on naming health adviser
London mayor Ken Livingstone has yet to appoint an adviser on health, despite persistent rumours that the post will go to Geoff Martin, campaigns director of London Health Emergency. He recently told HSJ : 'I haven't spoken to Ken directly about this. He said some months ago I would be ...
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Something in the air
It's a tricky role, but the head of the new Health Development Agency is confident that success is within his grasp. Laura Donnelly met him
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Is the public ready for its personal hotline to Alan Milburn?
Lyn Whitfield did the rounds in Winchester
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Managers fear consultant alienation
Managers reacted cautiously to the government's tough talk on consultants before and after the Rodney Ledward case.
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In Brief: Resource allocation in Wales
The national steering group set up to examine resource allocation in Wales has met for the first time. The group, led by Peter Townsend, professor of social policy at Bristol University, will report to the Welsh Assembly by September.
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Short Cuts: New Assembly faces calls for ambulance funding
Pressure group London Health Emergency is lobbying the capital's new mayor and Assembly in a bid to attract 'massive investment' to London Ambulance Service trust by renewing claims that it is the 'worst-performing urban ambulance service in the country'. Trust acting chief executive Peter Bradley said it was reaching 41 ...
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Doctors launch professional and personal attacks on GMC
Senior doctors launched an outspoken attack on the General Medical Council at the British Medical Association's consultants' conference last week.
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PFI shake-up leads to beds 'crisis' row
Clinicians and managers are at loggerheads over an alleged bed crisis at Hereford Hospita l.
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Short Cuts: Majority in survey believe UKCC is effective body
A survey has found support for the UK Central Council for Nursing Midwifery and Health Visiting, which is currently subject to review. The survey by Public Attitude Surveys found that 77 per cent of a sample of people on the UKCC's register thought it was an effective regulatory body, compared ...
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A personnel best?
A computer system linking all the personnel information of NHS staff is on its way. But will this IT initiative deliver the goods where so many others have failed? Kaye McIntosh reports
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In Brief: Scottish school of primary care
Scottish health minister Susan Deacon has launched the Scottish school of primary care in Edinburgh. The school is supported by the government, NHS and professional organisations and will promote research in primary care. After a foundation phase, the school will go live in January 2002.