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Government stalls on long term care again
The government's decision on who should fund long-term care has been put off until next summer - more than a year after a royal commission recommended that the state should foot the bill.
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Troubles ahead
Northern Ireland's new health minister will have to contend with stretched resources and rivals who are suspicious of her every move, writes Seamus Ward
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Milburn orders inquiry into Alder Hey heart scandal
Health secretary Alan Milburn has launched an independent inquiry into organ removal at Alder Hey Children's Hospital.
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Chief faces sexual harassment allegations
A trust chief executive has been accused of driving one of his managers out of her job after she rebuffed his sexual advances.
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Short Cuts: HA looks into financial mismanagement allegations
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly health authority has instigated an internal investigation into allegations of financial mismanagement made by its finance director, Roger Silvester. Mr Silvester was suspended in May following comments at a public board meeting at which he refused to accept the HA's plans for £4m cuts to ...
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PCGs urged to meet alternative medicine costs
Doctors have urged primary care groups to pay for alternative medicine such as acupuncture.
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Scots opposition angered by payout
Scotland's opposition parties have been angered by a decision to pay a senior NHS manager compensation of more than £300,000 after she failed a competence test.
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Government hits back over north-south 'gap'
The government this week launched an offensive against claims that its social exclusion agenda has done little to tackle the root causes of poverty and a widening north-south divide.
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PCGs get backing for drug sponsor deals
GPs and primary care groups have been 'surprised' by 'liberal' guidance on sponsorship deals with drug companies.
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Warming to hotspots: Barry Elliott
Incoming HFMA chair Barry Elliott is a man used to political hotspots. Since joining the NHS in 1983 - he spent his early career in local government - he has worked in a number of areas inextricably associated with newspaper headlines.
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Death rates ignored 'because of trust status bid'
Dr John Roylance has told the Bristol Royal Infirmary inquiry that he did not investigate concerns about mortality rates in paediatric cardiac surgery because they were raised in connection with the hospital's application for trust status.
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In Brief: Cancer Black Care information centre
Home Office minister Paul Boateng opened the Cancer Black Care information centre in Hackney, east London, on Friday. The centre, a joint initiative between Cancer Black Care and Macmillan Cancer Relief, aims to inform healthcare professionals about cultural issues in cancer care.
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Rocking the boat without fear and with confidence
The right to criticise policy must be for the many, not the few
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Bottomley challenges Milburn on 'dire' NHS
Former Conservative health secretary Virginia Bottomley says the NHS in her West Surrey constituency is in a 'dire' state and has called for health secretary Alan Milburn to see the extent of bed blocking and trolley waits for himself.
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In Brief: Commission for Health Improvement
The full membership of the Commission for Health Improvement has been announced.
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In Brief: National Institute for Clinical Excellence
Twenty heads of multiple sclerosis services are to begin a programme of audit and evaluation to help inform the National Institute for Clinical Excellence on standards for MS care. The MS heads of service network is chaired by Professor Alan Thompson, clinical director of neurorehabilitation and therapy services at the ...
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In Brief: Capital Solutions
Healthcare consultancy Capital Solutions, part of Leeds Teaching hospitals trust, has merged with NHS Estates. Kate Priestley, NHS Estates chief executive, said the merger was 'further evidence of NHS Estates being able to connect the centre with the service'. Capital Solution will trade under the NHS Estates banner as part ...
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Short Cuts: UN commissions NHS Estates team to tackle bug
NHS Estates has been commissioned by the United Nations International Year 2000 Cooperation Centre to manage a project taking help and advice on millennium bug issues to health services in developing countries. The Reconstitution Project for Health will run alongside similar global schemes covering communications, energy, finance and transport and ...