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Drug habits in the dock
A recent Appeal Court case has essentially destroyed the Department of Health's self-awarded monopoly on medical data. Peter Mitchell explains
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NHS enters first stage of payroll restructuring
The NHS has begun procurement of a new national system to replace the current variety of payroll systems used in the NHS at the moment.
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IT is good at the simple things - but grand strategies fail
COMMENT Electronic health records are too complicated to emulate the success of NHS Direct, believes Peter Mitchell
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Go with the flow
GPs have forced on the centre what hospitals and health authorities could not: a climbdown on NHSnet. Peter Mitchell reports
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In the frame
PCGs will need to get to grips with mental health service provision at practice level if they are to implement the new national service framework. Anne Rogers and colleagues report on a survey
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Funding for records put on ice
The NHS Information Authority has shelved its plan to award up to £6m of funding for the NHS's first full electronic health record demonstrator sites.
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Labour insists it will meet its waiting-list pledge
The government insists it is 'well on target' to meet its election manifesto pledge to cut waiting lists by 100,000 at the end of this Parliament - despite figures showing an increase of more than 10,000 waiting at the end of January.
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Lighting up
Al Pacino stars as investigative reporter Lowell Bergman in the Oscar-nominated film The Insider, the true story of a US tobacco industry whistleblower. It had a special screening in Birmingham last Friday attended by more than 250 doctors, nurses and other health staff.
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Outwardly mobile
Mobile phones and hospitals don't mix, yet many trust staff are essentially mobile. The Royal Marsden trust found an ideal halfway house in digital cordless technology, explains Gary Burkill
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Monitor
Monitor was flabbergasted when the bastion of journalism that is the Sunday People revealed that the NHS was putting 'free condoms into birdboxes for sick gay orgies'. In a children's beauty spot, no less. Time for a bit of digging, so to speak. The Sunday People explains that one birdbox ...
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Slow motion
For 10 years, staff and patients at a crumbling psychiatric hospital in a bleak cliff-top location wondered if they would ever move to a proposed new unit. Now, with their full involvement, they have. Anna Barnes reports
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Pathology staffing problems worsen
The recruitment crisis in NHS pathology laboratories is getting worse, according to a union survey which found a 20 per cent shortfall in lab staff nationally.
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WEB WATCH
'It's the biggest job in London. You choose who gets it, ' run the huge advertisements cluttering up the capital's billboards and bus stops. It is the job of the metropolis' first directly elected mayor - and, with due apologies to the vast majority of readers living outside the circle ...
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Trusts braced for impact of act
How will the Human Rights Act impact on the NHS when it comes into force next October?
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Selection of surgeons for inquiries probed after kidney row
The Royal College of Surgeons is to review its procedures for appointing surgeons to independent inquiries, following the revelation that the lead consultant who investigated the removal of a healthy kidney from a patient in Llanelli was himself the subject of legal action over a similar case, and had selected ...
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Mental health PFI plan agreed at last
Plans to replace 'abysmal' buildings housing mental health services in Leeds have finally got the go-ahead almost a decade after the closure of the sites was first proposed. The £47m deal is the largest ever private finance initiative for mental health services.
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Audit Forum aims to clarify public sector relations
The Public Audit Forum has published a paper aimed at clarifying the relationship between public sector auditors and their audited bodies. The forum, which involves the National Audit Office, the Audit Commission, the Accounts Commission for Scotland, and the Northern Ireland Audit Office, has urged public sector auditors to ensure ...