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Commercial launch for WaX 'virtual book'
A new company, WaX Info, has been formed to market the WaX medical knowledge publishing system developed at Cambridge University's medical informatics unit.
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BMA hits out at 'frail' data in league tables
'The frail quality' of information in hospital league tables makes them of little use to patients, doctors or managers, the British Medical Association this week warned.
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Short Cuts: Lib Dems blast delay in releasing DoH target check
The Liberal Democrats have criticised the government's delays in releasing an assessment of all the targets set for the Department of Health.They claim that the 1998 white paper The New NHS has generated over 2,000 measures to be monitored - with more at lower levels. Liberal Democrat health spokesman Nick ...
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MPs back new personality disorder plans
Controversial proposals to detain 'dangerous people with severe personality disorder' have received tentative support from the Commons home affairs committee.
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Back to square one
Children from Our Lady 's School in Camden, north London, learn how to avoid food poisoning with a giant board game called 'Bubbles and Slime'.
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Short Cuts: Welsh Assembly issues social exclusion indicators
The Welsh Assembly has published 50 indicators mapping social exclusion. The report illustrates that many factors are concentrated in the Valleys, but also shows social exclusion in other parts of the country in pockets of urban deprivation. The figures show that 10 per cent of adults in Wales reported being ...
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Doc around the clock
The future of out-of-hours medical care, now under government scrutiny, has many potential scenarios - and most seem to involve NHS Direct, writes Alison Moore
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Deacon orders rethink of Arbuthnott funding plans
Scottish health minister Susan Deacon has ordered the Arbuthnott steering group to produce new proposals after rejecting its original plans to change the way NHS funding is shared out.
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Non-execs too important to be ministers' appointees
Politicians of all hues cannot resist temptation to favour party faithful
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Antibodies of evidence
Increased lab automation means that the tedious job of cross-matching blood samples will soon be passed on to computers, writes Peter Mitchell
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All dosed up
All trusts must have electronic prescribing systems by 2005, the NHS information strategy stipulates. One trust has been successfully using such a package for some time, writes Peter Mitchell
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Press ahead without me
In his first speech since announcing his resignation, NHS chief executive Sir Alan Langlands emphasised the pressures on health service managers, increasingly in the harsh glare of the media spotlight. Paul Stephenson reports
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In Brief: Food Standards Agency
The Food Standards Agency will be formally established on 1 April. Regulations to complete the handover of food safety and standards responsibilities to the new agency were signed by junior health minister Gisela Stuart last week.
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Short Cuts: Pensions Agency to contract out support services
The NHS Pensions Agency has announced plans to contract out support services in an effort to reduce administration costs. The agency says the proposals could ultimately generate savings of some £3m a year and 'make better use of new computer technology and the Internet'. The contract is likely to include ...
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Denham braves Alliance after row
Health minister John Denham this week faced an audience with the NHS Alliance - just days after the organisation had been ordered to rip out his foreword to its latest paper.
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Doctors' groups slam go-ahead for PCT in face of GPs' opposition ad
GP leaders from four national bodies have issued a joint attack on Southend primary care group's application to become a primary care trust next month despite a ballot in which local GPs opposed the move.
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In Brief: Harold Shipman inquiry will be 'open and accessible'
The Department of Health has promised that the independent inquiry into the Harold Shipman case will be 'open and accessible' to relatives of his victims. Led by Lord Laming, former chief inspector of the Social Services Inspectorate, the inquiry has been set up under the NHS Act and is closed ...