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In Brief: Capital investment in the NHS in Wales
Welsh health secretary Jane Hutt has announced £53m capital investment in the NHS in Wales, including £12.4m to develop a mental illness unit for the Rhondda and Taff Ely and £12m to expand mental health facilities in Bridgend.
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In Brief: David Piachaud calls for improvement in child nutrition
David Piachaud, professor of social policy at the London School of Economics, has called for a new programme of school breakfasts and an extension of free school meals to improve child nutrition.He also told the annual conference of the UK Public Health Association that 'alcopops' should be banned.
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In Brief: St George's Hospital
A £48m development to sweep away Victorian wards at St George's Hospital in Tooting and provide modern accommodation for cardiothoracic and neurosciences services has been approved by health secretary Alan Milburn.The work will be funded through the private finance initiative.
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In Brief: Essex Rivers Healthcare trust hits waiting list target
Essex Rivers Healthcare trust has announced that it has hit its waiting-list target for the first time since 1996 by getting lists down from 7,614 last April to 5,926 in March, passing its target of 6,238.Chief executive Mike Pollard said staff had 'worked beyond the call of duty'.
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In Brief: Government health education programmes ineffective
Government health education programmes are 'loved' by the tobacco industry because 'it knows they are completely ineffective among the population whom it is most anxious to target: young women, ' claimed Norwich North Labour MP Ian Gibson in an adjournment debate on lung cancer in women.He called for a special ...
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In Brief: Government should legislate to protect the human genome sequence
The government should legislate to protect the human genome sequence and prevent human genes being patented, said Richard Allan, Liberal Democrat MP for Sheffield Hallam. He asked: 'What will the cost be to the NHS if the costs of genetic testing have to include royalties to the holder of the ...
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Scotland promised public health boost
The Scottish health service will receive £173m next year from the £300m found for public services in Scotland in the Budget.
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Bonny and Clyde
An ambitious £400m capital programme aims to revolutionise Glasgow's hospital services.But can the health board convince the public, asks Barbara Millar
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Who wants to be a billionaire?
The NHS has been given extra funding beyond its wildest dreams, but how will it be used to force through New Labour's modernisation crusade? Lyn Whitfield investigates
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Barrier grief
PCTs have ambitions to achieve a wholesale shift in resources to primary care. But how will they succeed where health authorities have failed? The obstacles to change should not be underestimated, argues Nigel Edwards
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Power to ban doctors for life moves closer
Life bans for criminal or bad doctors came a step closer last week with a government consultation document proposing a radical shake-up of the way the General Medical Council works.
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Hospital dumped baby's organs
Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool threw away the organs of a baby that were due to be returned to his parents for burial after a 'difference of opinion' between two staff members, a report has found.
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Left holding the baby
Boadcaster Michael Palin meets Kirsty Thew and her daughter at the Sheffield hospital where he had his tonsils removed, and admires a new wall painting in the neonatal ward.Mr Palin was visit ing Sheff ield Children's Hospital to unveil the painting, commissioned in an arts for health programme funded by ...
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Audit report hits out at equipment supplies' 'recipe for inefficiency'
The organisation of equipment services for elderly and disabled people is 'a recipe for inequality and inefficiency', the Audit Commission has found.
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In Brief: The NHS has 'an astonishing lack of understanding of multiple sclerosis'
The NHS has 'an astonishing lack of understanding of multiple sclerosis', said Paul Burstow, Liberal Democrat MP for Sutton and Cheam.MS patients are dealt with in a 'very disorganised and unsystematic way', he said in an adjournment debate.He called for a well-planned and properly delivered service.