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'Elbow room' runs out in island's PCT rejig
The smallest health authority in England is almost certain to disappear amid plans to create a primary care trust covering the same area.
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NHS 'masterplan' teams are sworn to secrecy - or else
The government has launched three months of consultation ahead of 'a national plan for the NHS' by urging the modernisation action teams involved to keep their talks under wraps.
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NHS Executive 'learned' from previous IT strategy
The Commons public accounts committee has concluded that the NHS Executive 'learned lessons' from its 1992 information technology strategy - even though this was never evaluated.
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Pay negotiators to reveal slow going
Negotiators who have been locked in talks on a new pay system for the NHS for almost a year will reveal limited progress this week, days after health minister John Denham launched an action plan for involving staff in decision-making.
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It's good to talk
health minister John Hutton talks to patient Ann Thorpe and clinical lead Margaret Evans during a visit to the new NHS walk-in centre in Liverpool.
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Patients' guarantee is Trojan Horse: Milburn
The Labour and Conservative parties have spent the week exchanging insults over health policy.
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Say whatever you like, but keep it strictly to yourself
A mature, open debate on the NHS is impossible if dissent is quashed
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Keeping up with the neighbours
The politics of health in Europe By Richard Freeman Manchester University Press 164 pages £14.99
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Past masters
A report on workforce planning offers a serious challenge to the way doctors - and their royal colleges - work. Daloni Carlisle reports
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One question dominates Monitor's every waking hour. Oh, we know that Alan Milburn swaggers about being manly in the way that only a Geordie can - Monitor's maiden aunt still blushes at the thought of Jimmy Nail's stirring performance in Crocodile Shoes - but where does our Al get his ...
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No way out
Government plans to lock up dangerous people with severe personality disorders have met with almost blanket opposition from mental health professionals. So where to now? Laura Donnelly reports
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NICE makes 10-year ruling on hips
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence has issued guidance on hip replacements, recommending that artificial joints should last at least 10 years in 90 per cent of cases.
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Reform association issues advice on better access
The Abortion Law Reform Association has issued a guide for commissioners on improving access to abortion and urged them to look for ways of improving services to match standards issued by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists at the end of March. President Baroness Lockwood said: 'More than 30 ...
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Action team members deny PR accusations
Senior managers appointed to the government's NHS modernisation action teams have dismissed suggestions that consultation on 'a national plan for health' is an exercise in public relations.
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Government has 'ducked' thorny issues in Mental Health Act plans
The expert committee charged with advising the government on reform of the Mental Health Act has attacked its green paper for 'ducking some fundamental questions' to chase a tabloid agenda on public safety.
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Fox's brush with bright ideas lights the way ahead
Frank Field wasn't the only politician casting around for new ideas to help the NHS this week. Though less exotic than Mr Field's suggestion that patients be sent to India or China for treatment, Dr Liam Fox is halfway through some basic rethinking, too.
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Disabled given priority on work alternatives
Employees who become disabled and can no longer do their job must be given priority for any alternative vacancies that arise, the Employment Appeal Tribunal has ruled.