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Seven teaching hospitals will battle over defence medicine centre
The Ministry of Defence has short listed seven trusts in a competition to develop a national centre for defence medicine.
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Scottish funds rethink will be based on need
Glasgow and rural Scotland are to be the main beneficiaries of a shake-up in the way funds are allocated to the health service by the Scottish Parliament.
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Hospital bans millennium surgery
One of Scotland's flagship hospitals has announced that it will suspend elective surgery for a month over the millennium, in a move condemned by unions and politicians.
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Short Cuts: HEA launches anti-smoking manual for schools
The Health Education Authority has launched a manual to help schools create a plan of action to educate young people about tobacco and reduce smoking on their own premises. It follows research showing that 91 per cent of schools have a smoking policy, but 63 per cent allow adults to ...
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In Brief: Call for research into the interaction of CS spray with antipsychotic drugs
Mental health charity Mind has backed a Police Complaints Authority call for research into the interaction of CS spray with antipsychotic drugs. The PCA's annual report also urges improved mental health training and research into any 'causal connection' between CS spray and death due to positional asphyxia.
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In Brief: Alun Michael
Welsh Assembly first secretary Alun Michael has announced a review of how people are appointed to the top jobs in health authorities and trusts in Wales. It will be led by health and social services secretary Jane Hutt and involve spokespeople from three other political parties. It will report by ...
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Short Cuts: Merseyside sets up initiative against violence
Home secretary Jack Straw has launched the Merseyside zero-tolerance initiative, which aims to increase awareness of violence against women and children, a week after helping to launch the government's own initiative, Living Without Fear. The major funders of the initiative are the Merseyside health action zone and Safer Merseyside Partnership. ...
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Short Cuts: Waiting lists up again
Waiting lists moved further away from government targets again last month. Figures released by the Department of Health show the number of pat ients waiting to be admitted to hospital rose by 3,500 or 0.3 per cent from the end of April to the end of May and now stand ...
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Trust chief blasted for £25,000 office spend
The new chief executive of one of London's highest-profile trusts has come under fire for spending £25,000 redecorating his offices.
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As you were
Staff nurse John Briggs relaxes in a reminiscence room created at Whitby Hospital's Spinnaker Lodge to stimulate the memories of older patients.
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WEB WATCH
What tune best sums up the primary care group challenge? Eschewing the obvious Money (or even Money, Money Money), maybe Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown would fit the bill. Not for Bexley and Greenwich PCGs, where visitors to an online PCG theme competition have inexplicably plumped for the theme tune from Neighbours ...