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    Room for improvement

    2000-01-20T00:00:00Z

    Patients treated in good surroundings rate their treatment and staff more highly than those seen in old buidlings. Bryan Lawson and Michael Phiri report

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    Its not incompetence

    2000-01-20T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    Managers warn that pay rise could leave NHS struggling

    2000-01-20T00:00:00Z

    The governments decision to award most health service staff an above inflation pay rise could leave the NHS struggling to meet the cost of other demands, health service managers have warned.

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    Monitor

    2000-01-20T00:00:00Z

    Monitor was a groovy young hipster once upon a time, oh yes. So what better way to bid hello to the soon-to-launch Health Development Agency than with a look at the wild and crazy days of it youth. The Health Education Authority - which will be replaced by the HDA ...

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    in person

    2000-01-20T00:00:00Z

    Peter Cain, finance director of East Kent health authority, is to retire next month after 40 years in the NHS. His career has included appointments in East Anglia, Nottingham, and Newcastle upon Tyne. He is also a member of the Healthcare Financial Management Association.

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    Top of the shops

    2000-01-20T00:00:00Z

    The latest push to revitalise local shopping services has been accused of focusing exclusively on commercial issues, writes Alison Forbes

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    WEB WATCH

    2000-01-20T00:00:00Z

    Ever wondered precisely what it is pathologists do with dead bodies, but couldn't bring yourself to look too closely? Let Dr Ed Friedlander fill you in with the sort of detail that could come in handy when you write that blockbuster crime novel.

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    Scottish Parliaments finds £500,000 for safety

    2000-01-13T00:00:00Z

    The Scottish Parliament has found £500,000 to support health and safety in the NHS in Scotland, to be spent on measures such as mobile phones and security alarms for nurses.

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    £1m to reduce pressure on junior doctors in Wales

    2000-01-13T00:00:00Z

    Welsh trusts are being given £1m to assist them with reducing the intensity of work faced by junior doctors. The money will be used to ensure junior doctors have a reasonable expectation of six to eight hours rest when on call continuously, if possible. British Medical Association Welsh secretary Bob ...

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    £12m overspend trust may axe surgical beds

    2000-01-13T00:00:00Z

    Waiting times could be allowed to rise and up to 110 surgical beds could be cut in a bid to save money at a cash strapped Scottish trust.

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    Lucky 13 will be first-wave PCT pioneers

    2000-01-13T00:00:00Z

    Just 13 primary care trusts have been chosen to spearhead the governments revolution in primary care in April.

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    £23 a year per head: the cost of workplace well-being

    2000-01-13T00:00:00Z

    The workplace well-being team is staffed by a clinical psychologist and two accredited workplace counsellors, an administrator or receptionist and a research assistant, all working part-time.

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    Edgware Community Hospital gets £21.8m revamp

    2000-01-13T00:00:00Z

    Barnet Healthcare trust has announced that London regional office has approved £21.8m plans to redevelop Edgware Community Hospital. Chief executive Murray Duncanson said it was delighted that modern, integrated services for the local population would be in place within the foreseeable future. One of the first walk-in centres will be ...

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    Its not about the money

    2000-01-13T00:00:00Z

    Easing Glasgow s health problems is more than a case of redistributing wealth, say critics of a recent report on inequalities, writes Barbara Millar

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    Trusts defend themselves against expensive ranking in index

    2000-01-13T00:00:00Z

    Trusts divided sharply in their response to the new schedule of reference costs, depending on whether they were ranked among the cheapest or most expensive in the country .

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    Flu crisis puts hospitals on alert but beds inquiry still under wraps

    2000-01-13T00:00:00Z

    The government came under renewed pressure to publish the findings of its long-delayed beds inquiry as UK hospitals went on red alert to deal with rising numbers of flu admissions.

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    Lenient sentence for man who stole ambulance sparks anger

    2000-01-13T00:00:00Z

    Cumbria Ambulance Service trust has described a 29-month driving ban and £400 fine for a man who stole one of its ambulances as particularly lenient.

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    Hunt announces dental project

    2000-01-13T00:00:00Z

    Junior health minister Lord Hunt announced that the government plans to set up a further 34 phone and go dental services as he opened a Shrewsbury-based project, Dental Matters, this week.