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Survival operation:
health secretary Frank Dobson tours a £5m children's accident and emergency department due to open early next year at St Mary's Hospital in west London.
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WEB WATCH
'This site is under construction... literally,' reads the blurb. Work on Dartford and Gravesham's new £100m hospital, the first to be built under the private finance initiative, is now fairly far advanced. New roads have been built, the helipad is complete, and the builders are keen to show off their ...
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Short Cuts: Half of Britain's wealth held by richest 10 per cent
Inequalities in wealth in Britain are 'extreme', with 10 per cent of the population owning half of all wealth, according to a report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. It shows that young, single people and lone parents have little wealth, but half of all households in Britain have savings, pensions ...
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Cash injection for Welsh NHS includes £5m in capital funding
Extra cash has been found for the NHS in Wales, including a small amount for capital investment.
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2000 throws up PR nightmares
Tales of millennium revellers 'vomiting to death' make 'bad PR', a year 2000 communications workshop heard last week.
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Short Cuts: Academic appointed to lead sexual health strategy
Public health minister Tessa Jowell has announced that Michael Adler, professor of genitourinary medicine/sexually transmitted diseases at Royal Free and University College Medical School, will lead the development of a sexual health strategy for England. The strategy, announced in March, will aim to improve access to services, spread good practice, ...
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Short Cuts: UKCC prepares ethnicity survey across register
The UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting is preparing to issue forms to all 637,000 people on its register, asking them about their ethnic origin in an attempt to compile a comprehensive picture of the ethnic breakdown of its professions across the UK. The exercise has been ...
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Balancing act
Campaigners are launching a CD-ROM and website to help the media provide more balanced coverage of mental health issues. Laura Donnelly reports
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Dobson dithers as RCN acts on long-term care
The government is unlikely to issue its response to the Royal Commission on Long-Term Care before the autumn - and may only issue an 'early response' then, health secretary Frank Dobson said last week.
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Deficit grows after finance chief quits
A London trust that saw the abrupt departure of its finance director at the end of May has admitted that it is facing much 'worse than anticipated' financial problems.