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Help received from groups and charities
Input from members of registered voluntary organisations was also used in our calculations, along with donations from charitable bodies registered with the voluntary services department.
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NAO to investigate Edgware closure
The controversial scheme that led to the closure of Edgware General Hospital's accident and emergency department is to come under scrutiny by the National Audit Office.
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Poverty plays a major role in risk of cot death, report says
The largest ever study of cot deaths in the UK has found that babies born into poor families are at a far greater risk than those born to better-off parents.
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Days like this
Blame 'causing exodus'. . . Nurses unhappy over ads. . . New healthcare grade. . . Consultants 'breaching contracts'. . . £2m strike bill. . .
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New HIV infections reach a high at decade's end
The Public Health Laboratory Service has revealed that 1999 probably saw the greatest number of new HIV infections in a decade.
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How Super Tone delivered a sermon on the mount
'Events, dear boy, events, ' was how Harold Macmillan replied when someone asked the stylish Tory prime minister what kept him awake at night. He's out of fashion now because he failed to tackle those structural economic problems before Mrs Thatcher did. But he'd seen it all and he was ...
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Institute head stands by lab staff survey despite rebuttal
The head of the Institute of Biomedical Science is standing by a survey that claims one in 10 NHS laboratories is using unqualified staff in testing processes, despite putting his name to a Department of Health rebuttal statement.
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Race inequalities study pushes development plans
A study of race inequalities in the NHS has called for the creation of personal development plans for GPs and professional development plans for all general practice staff. The plans would review whether practices are meeting the needs of patients, including those from black and ethnic minority communities. The study ...
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Pharmacists set up NHS Direct support network
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain has established an NHS Direct pharmacy support network to help pharmacists involved with the telephone helpline. Christine Gray, head of practice at the society, said pharmacists had not been 'sufficiently involved' with NHS Direct as it launched, but 'all NHS Direct sites should ...
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'Trust me, I'm a doctor'
The conviction of Harold Shipman makes him one of the UK's biggest serial killers. But there is a long history of doctors accused of killing their patients or others. Bernadette Friend reports
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The paramedic poisoner: Dr Michael Swango
This year, Dr Michael Swango, in jail in the US for falsifying his professional record to obtain work, will be eligible to be released to a prison halfway house.
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Inquiry into treatment of man who killed at eclipse
An independent inquiry is to be set up into the healthcare received by Kevin Hewitt - dubbed the 'eclipse killer' by local media.
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NHS funding
Throwing more money at the NHS in a bid to match health spending in other countries will only create a self-defeating cycle of higher and higher expectations, writes John Appleby
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Game for a scarf
Ruth Glentworth, a volunteer from charity Headstart, helps Vera Scott learn to use a headscarf and hair fringe to mask hair loss at Manchester's Christie Hospital.
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Terry Hanafin: 'That job's got my name on it'
Terry Hanafin joined the Audit Commission in October from Croydon health authority, where he was chief executive.
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How the scheme will work
'We believe that we shall have some patients placed in the community soon, although the transfer will be incremental rather than a large number transferring at once, ' says Sue Newton, development manager with charity PSS.