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In Brief: The Royal College of Nursing issues helath agenda
The Royal College of Nursing has issued its health agenda for London's mayoral candidates, calling on them to create a public health officer for the capital, carry out policy health impact assessments, improve primary care and tackle issues such as pollution.
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Anger at surgeon shortage after five-day refusal of donor kidneys
Kidney experts have accused the government of making 'no tangible response' to a serious shortage of transplant surgeons that contributed to a five-day suspension of operations at University Hospital of Wales last week.
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In Brief: MSF and AEEU announce merger plans
The MSF and AEEU unions have announced merger plans.The 'new union' project will be discussed at MSF's conference in May, after which there will be a ballot of members.
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About the size of it
With more than £1bn worth of PFI schemes in the bag, the DoH is turning its attention to medium and small projects. Seamus Ward reports
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Budget's £600m bonanza soured by claim of anti-bureauccrat spin
The government's decision to distribute £600m of Budget cash to the NHS with no strings attached has been warmly welcomed - but overshadowed by claims that the announcement was 'spun' into an 'anti-bureaucrat crusade'.
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WEB WATCH
What do doctors get up to when no-one's looking? What do they wear beneath their trousers? It is in fearless search of the answers to these questions and more that Webwatch sets off this week for the darkest regions of Doctors.net.uk - a closed community for those initiated into the ...
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Vacuum task
Are the candidates for London mayor ignoring health as an issue? As the election - and HSJ's own mayoral debate - approaches, Mark Gould finds out
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On the slide?
Whatever their feelings on the government's approach to cancer services, the experts agree more cash and manpower are needed - fast. Thelma Agnew reports
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Monitor
Direct access rectal bleed clinics! Could anything be nicer? Stockport Acute Services trust doesn't seem to think so, announcing plans to carry out fast-track buttock checks. The logistics of such schemes make interesting reckoning, says Monitor, but in the interests of taste and decency perhaps the matter is best kept ...
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Joyless triumph
A trust's 'achievement' in bringing the first major PFI project to completion has been tempered by claims that the way it has been funded is a 'disaster'. Patrick Butler reports
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Glasgow 'superplan' hits flak
Greater Glasgow health board has proposed a £400m capital programme, funded through private finance, leading to the development of a 'superhospital' at the city's Southern General Hospital.