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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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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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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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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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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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10-month cancer delay casts doubt on ability to improve
Cancer patients have been waiting up to 10 months for treatment, according to a national 'baseline audit' casting doubt on services' ability to improve at the pace demanded by the government and public.
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£10m renal cash follows expose
London regional director Nigel Crisp is to enter emergency talks with the capital's top renal specialists, following a public exposure of the 'worsening crisis' facing their units by senior clinicians.
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Trust co-op's £20m plan gets go-ahead
The Treasury has at last approved the proposals put forward by a group of co-operating trusts in South West region to procure a high-specification electronic health record system. The decision comes three months later than the regional office had expected.
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Type 2 diabetes
Three million people in the UK could have type 2 diabetes by the end of the decade, and many will suffer kidney failure. But diagnosis and management of the problem show disturbing inadequacies, argue Arabella Melville and colleagues
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Huge variation in availability of HA-funded abortions
Guidelines published this week on the use of abortions have flagged up variations in availability which mean that 90 per cent of procedures are funded by just 19 health authorities in England and Wales.
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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 ...
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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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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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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 ...