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HAZs 'could be key in push on mental health'
The King's Fund has called for increased integration between urban regeneration initiatives and efforts to tackle mental ill health.
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Mr Nice Guy: the very popular Stuart Marples
'Incredibly special' is how Sandy Bradbury, medical directorate nurse manager at the Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals trust, describes chief executive Stuart Marples.
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OBITUARY: HOWARD GOODMAN
Hospital architect Howard Goodman died on 22 April after a period of illness. He was 71. Ray Moss recalls his life
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Minister forced into pensions statement by PFI row
The row over a privately funded replacement for Edinburgh Royal Infirmary continued into the final days of campaigning for the Scottish Parliament elections.
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Rampton's 'partner' takes over East Midlands forensic health
A Nottinghamshire trust already in ‘partnership’ with high security Rampton Hospital has taken over the running of the East Midlands regional forensic health service.
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Parliamentary question from Dr Stephen Ladyman
( bottom right), Labour MP for South Thanet (whose constituency includes a Pfizer plant ). House of Commons, 13 April.
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Prescription wastage and loopholes see millions of pounds going down the drain each year
Popular myth has it that Aneurin Bevan resigned as health minister in response to chancellor Hugh Gaitskell introducing a prescription charge of 1 shilling per item. In truth, his 1951 resignation speech suggests his departure probably owed more to his fierce opposition to NATO's planned rearmament programme.
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Days like these
45 bids for trust status... Unions ousted from health boards... Manager quits to steer Guy's... GPs pull back... White paper cash warning...
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Short cuts Leeds HA sets up healthcare for Kosovan refugees
Leeds health authority is monitoring the health of 161 Kosovan refugees who flew into the city last week. HA and social services officials worked together on a programme of immediate checks when the group arrived, and a spokesperson said attention would continue to be paid to 'the possible emergence of ...
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WEB WATCH MARK CRAIL
Medical charities clocked up a £399m investment in university research during 1997-98, and are thought to have put in a further £471m in the past year.
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Putting Princess Diana in the (correct) picture
Your article 'Why roll out the red carpet' was a useful and informative report, but the picture of Princess Diana was not taken at the Deaf Association, but dates from January 1989 when she visited the Service for Hearing Impaired Children, Kingston.
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There's no grace in this saving Unison members are treating meanness with the contempt it deserves
The second anniversary of Labour's coming to power passed just days after Unison members had voted by three to one to ballot on a strike over the millennium weekend in protest at the government's refusal to agree a national pay bonus for staff who work during the holiday.
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Short cuts 'Stifled competition will create shortages' warning
Maverick Conservative former trust chair John Spiers has argued the NHS is the 'last failed nationalised industry' in a book published by right- wing think-tank the Institute of Economic Affairs. The decision to remove the price mechanism and 'stifle competition' have created 'the classic conditions for scarcity', Mr Spiers argues, ...
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Payback threat to Edinburgh's new chief
A high-profile NHS manager could be forced to pay back a six-figure sum after securing the top job at one of Scotland's flagship trusts within weeks of leaving Wales' largest provider.
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Developing PCTs: a checklist for managers and clinicians
Values, rather than structures and frameworks, should guide the overall activities of PCTs.