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Experts query role of mental health 'czar'
The government has at last appointed a mental health 'czar' - six months after launching the national service framework.
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Days like this
'Keep internal market simple'. . .Quality of care warning. . .London surgery threat. . .HAs' huge budget cuts. . .Fears for community care. . .
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Dear Mel. . .
At one time it was very important to consider the length of time patients waited for admission to hospital. Is this still the case?
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NHS 'struggling' to meet needs of diabetes patients
The Audit Commission has found that some parts of the NHS are 'struggling' to meet the needs of diabetes patients , and improvements will be needed if it is to meet rising demand . Diabetes currently accounts for £2bn of hospital costs each year, and this is set to double ...
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How Tone's tunnel vision was diagnosed on spec
We should have spotted how enthusiastic - and how calculating - Tony Blair was going to get over health politics when he hosted that 'joint ministerial committee'on health matters in Cardiff the other Friday.
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Well disposed
Judy Ormerod, a nurse at Kirkstall Road Medical Centre in Leeds, demonstrates a disposal unit on display at Missing the Point, a conference on reducing common needlestick injuries to healthcare workers. Significant advances have been made in developing both needle-free and needle-safe devices, but their adoption in the UK has ...
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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