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Health needs left out of regeneration plans
Health and social services are frequently left out of plans to regenerate run-down areas, a report by Leeds University's Nuffield Institute for Health has found.
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Hit and miss
A survey of all practices in one PCG found that many are poorly prepared for the era of clinical governance. Juan Baeza and colleagues report
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Women offenders 'victims of shambolic special hospitals'
Most women in high-security hospitals should not be there. They are the victims of a 'shambolic' system that has failed to provide them with more appropriate care, the Commons health select committee has heard.
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NHS can manage on its own
The government's crusade to rid the NHS of its alleged inefficiencies and unacceptable variations in performance risks overlooking a simple truth: the cure may kill the patient. With the service already in the throes of major change, the announcement of further upheaval - and a national plan to boot - ...
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Test match
Pathology services are perceived as expensive and their cost-benefits to the NHS are ignored simply because they are long-term. The whole NHS is paying the price, argue Colin Connolly and Dennis Huckerby
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Vacuum task
With continuing uncertainty about the long-term future of devolved government, the furious pace of reform in the Northern Ireland health service has juddered to a halt. Lyn Whitfield reports
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Short Cuts: Heat and power plant saves trust £780,000 a year
The Royal Free Hampstead trust is saving £780,000 a year with a combined heat and power plant that allows 70 per cent of fuel to be conver ted into energy. The trust says 27 per cent of fuel is conver ted into energy in a conventional power station. Some of ...
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In Brief: £1m grant to improve play facilities in Wales
Welsh health secretary Jane Hutt has announced a £1m grant to improve play facilities in Wales and undertake a review of children's play. She said the money would particularly help children in deprived areas.
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Short Cuts: Exercise-promotion scheme receives £6.4m grant
The New Opportunities Fund has announced a £6.4m grant to encourage more people to walk, combating inactivity and ill-health.The award to the Countryside Agency and the British Heart Foundation will support 200 'walking the way for health schemes' to be launched in September.These will be conducted walks of about two ...
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Short Cuts: PFI project signing ensures £66m hospital for Wales
The largest private finance initiative project in Wales has been signed and sealed, Bro Morgannwg trust has announced.The trust admits that managers and developer Baglan Moor Healthcare plc 'toiled through the night' last week to ensure the £66m needed for the hospital for Neath and Port Talbot could be raised ...
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Read all about it
Peter Mount, chair of Salford Royal Hospitals trust (right), examines a 110year-old newspaper with Bernard O'Sullivan, managing director of E&C UK, a construction company.The newspaper was one of three found with Salford council minutes and other documents in a time capsule unearthed during demolition work at Ladywell Hospital.The capsule contents ...
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Absolutely fabulous
The New Health Network, set up to champion change by enthusing NHS staff, now has a chief executive who oozes enthusiasm and wants others to be as ecstatic.Lyn Whitfield reports
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Short Cuts: London action team to review emergency services
London regional office has announced the membership of an action team set up to review emergency services across the capital.Philip Brown, director of information development, who led preparations for last winter in the capital, is heading the project, which also includes clinicians, trust and health authority chief executives and managers, ...
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Move to strip out acute services early
Worcester Acute Hospitals trust has moved to strip Kidderminster General Hospital of its acute inpatient services up to two years earlier than planned in an apparent bid to outfox campaigners opposed to the move.
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Survey will seek to address NHS discrimination against disabled
An NHS drive to increase the number of staff with disabilities will include a national survey to establish the extent of discrimination at board level.
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Manager's departure adds to uncertainty
The departure of another senior Scottish manager has been announced.