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Milburn wins plaudits for 'more beds' move
Health secretary Alan Milburn's promise of more NHS beds and a fresh focus on care for elderly people appears to have won the backing of key health service interest groups, boosting his attempts to sustain the momentum of his embattled reforms.
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Best practice makes perfect
Transforming supervision in health care By Don Mason Cassell 186 pages £14.99
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In Brief: Patients blamed for financial position
Worthing and Southlands Hospitals trust has blamed the cost of treating a 'record' number of patients over Christmas and the new year for a worsening financial position.
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A touch of the blues
Tony Blair paints public service workers as resistant to change in order to denigrate the idea of public service, according to Mick McKeown and Dave Mercer
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BMA to fight Shipman 'contempt'
The British Medical Association will 'vigorously' defend itself to the attorney general, who has been asked to investigate whether it was in contempt of court for releasing a briefing document about GP Harold Shipman before he was found guilty of 15 murders.
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In Brief: First meeting of taskforce
The first meeting of the emergency pressures taskforce set up by Welsh health and social services secretary Jane Hutt has taken place. The taskforce includes a number of NHS chief executives and chairs, nurses' and doctors' representatives - but opposition politicians have boycotted it.
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In Brief: Unaware of deaf children
Deafeating Deafness has claimed that 1,500 families are unaware they have a deaf child because health authorities are unwilling to fund a cheap test that can be used within hours of birth. The charity is calling for the wider adoption of the Otoacoustic Emissions test to replace 'outdated and inefficient ...
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In Brief: Call for smoking to be treated as hard drug
A medical royal college has called for smoking to be taken as seriously as the use of heroin or cocaine, with treatment routinely available on the NHS. In a hard-hitting report, the Royal College of Physicians of England calls for a radical new approach to tobacco use, recognising it as ...
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MPs opt for hysteria bypass in Shipman debate
Down the years I have formed the general impression that MPs have become more hysterical about less and less. In this regard they have been representing changes in outlook among their constituents, less stoical and more assertive than generations ago, and thus merely doing their jobs as representatives.
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Candid camera
A webcam relays images of the construction of a new day procedures unit at St Mary's Hospital, Isle of Wight, to the hospital's website.
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Tobacco case lawyer criticises HAs' retreat
The lawyer behind failed legal action against the UK tobacco industry has hit out at health authorities for failing to support it.
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Lottery cash sparks query on future NHS funding
The Patients Association has called for the government to 'come clean' about the future of NHS funding after pledging new Lottery money to improve home care for cancer patients.
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Trust lifts eviction threat to nurses caught in PFI sell-off
A London trust has apologised for its 'insensitivity' in serving eviction notices on 55 student nurses.
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Chair defends list of directorships
A Scottish health board chair has vociferously denied that his involvement with 14 private companies and another public sector body in any way affects his performance in the NHS.