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How much does Europe spend anyway?
The assumption that the European spending average is 8 per cent has also been questioned. John Appleby , director of the King's Fund health systems programme, calculates that the real figure is 8.6 per cent. While minuscule, the 0.6 per cent equates to £5.6bn on a GDP of £890bn. This ...
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ASH welcomes large and explicit warnings
Anti-smoking pressure group ASH has welcomed proposals for large and explicit tobacco health warnings put forward by the Canadian government as a benchmark for European administrations.
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Aspirational cash has never been more needed
And still the onslaught persists. The health services first month in the new century has been as turbulent as any in its history. The past week alone has seen the national press's anti-NHS lobby mount the second wave of its attack, deploying such trusty old war-horses as the continuing existence ...
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Oxfordshire faces service cuts and asset sales
Oxfordshire health authority is planning to cut millions of pounds from its mental health services in an attempt to move out of the red. A public consultation document proposes savings of £1.3m in Oxfordshire Mental Healthcare trust s budget this year, rising to £4.3m in 2001-02, to achieve a balanced ...
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DoH back-pedalling on fertility
One of the experts behind new clinical guidelines on fertility treatment has accused the Department of Health of back-pedalling on a ministerial promise to end the postcode lottery in infertility services.
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HA begins whole economy review to tackle deficit
North Essex health authority has embarked on a whole economy review of services to tackle a predicted overall deficit of £12m. Chris Minett, chief executive of Mid Essex Hospital Services trust - predicting a year-end deficit of £4.2m - has been seconded to the HA to review management capacity across ...
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HAI big spender
When Gordon Vassell was admitted to a north London hospital for a double hernia operation, he expected to be home again within a few days. He ended up in isolation for two weeks.
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Retreat sows confusion over Blair cash
Senior managers have called for clarity in the wake of an apparent retreat over prime minister Tony Blairs pledge to bring NHS funding up to European levels in five years.
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Troubled trusts merger brings new body for Essex
The name of the new trust created by the merger of two troubled Essex trusts has been announced. The organisation resulting from the merger of Southend Community Care Services trust and Thameside Community Healthcare trust will be South Essex Mental Health and Community Care trust. It also has a chair-designate, ...
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future possibilities Born free?
In vitrofertilisation is often held up as the prime example of healthcare rationing. Its availability has depended on the willingness of individual health authorities to fund treatment - often hedged with restrictions and eligibility criteria - or a couples ability to pay for treatment privately.
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In brief
The Commons health select committee has called for evidence for its inquiry into NHS mental health services to be submitted by 1 March. The inquiry will examine services for people with mental illness and personality disorder. It will also examine the relationship between secure units, hospitals and prisons.
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In brief
Beta-carotene, promoted as protection against cancer and heart disease, has no significant role in preventing the diseases, according to US research published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Results of a study of 40,000 women - half taking a placebo, half beta-carotene - found 378 cancers in the ...
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The real millennium bug
In the first quarter of this century, recognition of the different blood groups, combined with improved venepuncture techniques, allowed blood transfusions to be performed with relative safety. The same technologies led to the spread of a variety of different infectious agents capable of causing a post transfusion hepatitis.
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New test for colon cancer in sight
Scientists have identified a potential new screening technique, using skin cells, to identify people with an inherited predisposition to colorectal and other types of cancer .
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Experts warn of collapse as clinical governance stalls
Lack of leadership from regional offices and the Department of Health, coupled with inadequate funding, has stalled clinical governance and could lead to its collapse, key advocates have warned.
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What the country expects now
Health Care UK has become established reading for health policy buffs. It starts with three short editorials. Among these, one by Rudolf Klein, asking whether the NHS has a future, ranges over a broad canvas. On one level it covers familiar ground, raising the spectre of a growth in expectations ...