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A picture of health
artist Alan Flood sketches head of estates Andy Proud as part of Leeds Teaching Hospitals trust's arts week. The initiative was part of a week-long 'arts extravaganza' to celebrate the relaunch of the trust's arts programme under a new name, Tonic: the arts pick-me-up.
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Milburn pledges new hospital grime-wave
NHS managers will be issued with 'explicit' guidelines on how to clean hospitals following health secretary Alan Milburn's pledge to crack down on grime.
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New GPs outnumbered by retirees
The number of GPs retiring is outstripping the number entering the profession, leading to fears of a growing crisis in primary healthcare.
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First joint meeting of ministerial minds
The first meeting of the joint ministerial committee on health promised by prime minister Tony Blair in his post-Budget speech on modernising the NHS took place this week.
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NHS fights off huge pay-out hike
The NHS has beaten off the threat of a large hike in damages for pain and suffering with the Appeal Court's decision in eight test cases last month to reject a Law Commission recommendation for a rise of 50 to 100 per cent.
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Easy self-Assembly?
The UK's three devolved power bases have had up to 10 months to forge their own identities. Patrick Butler asks key players how they see their progress
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HAs 'should be paid fully for drugs'
Doctors have demanded that the government pay health authorities the full cost of introducing new drugs available on the NHS.
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Don't get mugged in London
Capital's managers need strategy to ensure harmony with the new mayor
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Euro ruling will protect junior doctors - in nine years
Junior doctors are to be brought under the provisions of the European working-time directive - but the move will take at least nine years.
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Days like this
'Threat' to community care. . . IHSM hits out. . . Sop to royal colleges. . . Fundholding warning. . . Dental deal. . . £600,000 from RHA's private suite
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Workforce plans see managers in control
Health managers are set to gain control of workforce planning under government proposals put out for consultation last week.
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When push comes to shove
One in four women experience physical violence. Many turn to the NHS for help. But do healthcare professionals have the skills to cope? Barbara Millar reports
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MrMop's clean conscience is symptomatic of the times
Milburn's hygiene missive proves desperate need for managerial champions
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CHI opts to investigate 'wrong-kidney' scandal
The Commission for Health Improvement is to investigate the trust at the centre of a high-profile kidney surgery blunder just weeks after it said such a move was unlikely.
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Three chairs for democracy
HSJ invited the four leading London mayoral hopefuls to debate health. Three couldn't stop agreeing with one another - but the fourth was a trifle late in putting his argument. Lyn Whitfield reports
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The coffin they carry you off in
Diane Charlton of the conservation workshop at Bradford Industrial Museum completes the restoration of a hand-drawn hearse that doubled as an ambulance when the glass top was removed. The vehicle was built in 1908 and used in the Yorkshire Dales village of Burneston.