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Desperate scramble for cash at firstwave PFI hospital
Managers are seeking additional funding for a first-wave private finance initiative hospital due to open in less than five months' time.
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Carry on at your convenor
MSPs launched a candid and very public attack on Scottish health minister Susan Deacon when the tapes kept rolling during what they believed to be a private session. Colin Wright reports
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Short Cuts: Government will respond this year on long-term care
The government will respond before Christmas to the report of the Royal Commission on Long-Term Care, leader of the House of Commons Margaret Beckett said last week. Dr Chai Patel, chair of the Continuing Care Conference, an umbrella group of local authorities, charities, healthcare providers and financial institutions, said he ...
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Short Cuts: Hutt gives go-ahead for Cardiff 's single trust
Welsh health and social services minister Jane Hutt has approved the creation of a single trust to serve Cardiff and the surrounding area. Cardiff and Vale trust will be formed from a merger of University Hospital of Wales and Llandough Hospital trust and Cardiff and District Community trust. It will ...
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Unbranded medicine costs 'pose threat to PCG budgets'
The spiralling cost of unbranded medicines is putting severe strain on the budgets of primary care groups.
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Bristol spotlight moves on to care
More than 30 children who died after undergoing heart surgery in Bristol in the 1980s and early 1990s could have been saved, the Bristol Royal Infirmary inquiry was told last week.
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In Brief: Waiting lists targets in sight
The total number of patients waiting to be admitted to hospital fell by 4,300 - 0.4 per cent - in September, to 1,084,500, according to figures from the Department of Health.
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In Brief: National Institute for Clinical Excellence
Health secretary Alan Milburn has announced the first full work programme for the National Institute for Clinical Excellence.
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In Brief: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease deaths rise
The total number of deaths from new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the UK has risen to 47, according to monthly figures released by the Department of Health.
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In Brief: Trusts to merge
A single mental health and community services trust for South Staffordshire has come a step closer following agreement in principle to merge First Community Health, Premier Health and the Foundation trusts on 1 April next year.
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Message in a bottle
Sister Anne McDaid demonstrates an emergency information scheme developed by Greater Glasgow health board, East Dumbartonshire council and local emergency services.
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Primary nursing makes Blair 'hopping mad'
Sources close to prime minister Tony Blair have told senior nurses he is 'hopping mad' with the 'shambles' of nursing in primary care, where there are eight different types of practitioner.
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Short Cuts: Elderly people 'should have bigger say' on services
Elderly people should have a bigger say in shaping local services, according to a report published by the Better Government for Older People campaign. It says older people need more opportunities and better services. By 2041, 41 per cent of the British population will be over 50, compared with a ...
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In Brief: Unison has deferred a strike ballot
Unison has deferred a strike ballot of 350,000 members offered a 3 per cent pay deal following a government signal that it could switch to long-term pay deals for health service workers not covered by pay review bodies.