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Parents seek 'accountability' over Alder Hey organ scandal
Furious parents are demanding further action at Liverpool's Alder Hey Children's Hospital after the chair was asked to leave last week.
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Sackings sparked by 'abuse' review
An external review of North Lakeland Healthcare trust has led to the sacking of its chair and the suspension of a number of senior managers.
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Campaign seeks to recruit 300 drugs counsellors
The government has launched a national advertising campaign to recruit an additional 300 drugs counsellors as part of its 10-year strategy, Tackling Drugs to Build a Better Britain . The two-week campaign will aim to recruit workers for the prison, probation and police services, voluntary sector and local authorities. The ...
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'Urgent' action demand by NAO as Welsh deficit reaches £80m
The financial performance of the NHS in Wales is continuing to deteriorate, with its underlying cumulative deficit set to rise to £80m by the end of the current financial year, according to the National Audit Office.
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New improved: 136-year tradition ends
The 444-bed Cumberland Infirmary is expected to be completed on 1 April, just over two years after work began and around six weeks ahead of schedule. It will end a 136-year tradition of health services on the Carlisle General site.
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Helpline given £1m to expand
Junior health minister Gisela Stuart has announced a £1m expansion of the mental health work of NHS Direct.
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That was then. . .
The evolution of British general practice 18501948 By Anne Digby Oxford University Press 376 pages £48
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WEB WATCH
'It's the biggest job in London. You choose who gets it, ' run the huge advertisements cluttering up the capital's billboards and bus stops. It is the job of the metropolis' first directly elected mayor - and, with due apologies to the vast majority of readers living outside the circle ...
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Pathology staffing problems worsen
The recruitment crisis in NHS pathology laboratories is getting worse, according to a union survey which found a 20 per cent shortfall in lab staff nationally.
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Slow motion
For 10 years, staff and patients at a crumbling psychiatric hospital in a bleak cliff-top location wondered if they would ever move to a proposed new unit. Now, with their full involvement, they have. Anna Barnes reports
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Monitor
Monitor was flabbergasted when the bastion of journalism that is the Sunday People revealed that the NHS was putting 'free condoms into birdboxes for sick gay orgies'. In a children's beauty spot, no less. Time for a bit of digging, so to speak. The Sunday People explains that one birdbox ...
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Outwardly mobile
Mobile phones and hospitals don't mix, yet many trust staff are essentially mobile. The Royal Marsden trust found an ideal halfway house in digital cordless technology, explains Gary Burkill
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Lighting up
Al Pacino stars as investigative reporter Lowell Bergman in the Oscar-nominated film The Insider, the true story of a US tobacco industry whistleblower. It had a special screening in Birmingham last Friday attended by more than 250 doctors, nurses and other health staff.
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Labour insists it will meet its waiting-list pledge
The government insists it is 'well on target' to meet its election manifesto pledge to cut waiting lists by 100,000 at the end of this Parliament - despite figures showing an increase of more than 10,000 waiting at the end of January.
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Funding for records put on ice
The NHS Information Authority has shelved its plan to award up to £6m of funding for the NHS's first full electronic health record demonstrator sites.