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Short Cuts: Welsh coast leukaemia probe finds no link evidence
Welsh health and social services minister Jane Hutt has announced that an independent examination of claims of a higher than normal incidence of leukaemia among children living on the north Wales coast has found 'no evidence' of a link. The Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment examined ...
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Short Cuts: HEA launches safer-sex website for holiday youth
A web page offering safer-sex advice for young people going on holiday has been launched by the Health Education Authority with help from Sun agony aunt Deidre Sanders, who answered questions online. The project follows a survey of 400 people aged 18 to 32, 16 per cent of whom reported ...
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Days like this
GPcontracts row. . . Warning over inner cities. . . Community care cash worry. . . Action on infant mortality. . . Channel Tunnel investigation. . .
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Going the distance
Scotland's 'advanced' new approach to allocating funds will take the remoteness of communities into account for the first time, writes Barbara Millar
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Dobson praises PFI for early hand-overs
Health secretary Frank Dobson returned to his defence of the private finance initiative last week by telling MPs that publicly funded hospitals were still being delivered late while PFI projects were being handed over early.
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Troubled mental health trust to lose three of its top executives
A mental health trust which came under fire for poor conditions and a 'lack of financial control' is to lose half its executive directors.
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Four into one merger plan for Manchester stirs opposition
Proposals to create a city-wide mental health trust in Manchester have sparked opposition.
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Give me patients
Management trainee Tom Smith thought the NHS was his chance to make a difference. His experience proved a rude awakening
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Hole world in her hands
Rebecca Mullen from charity Fight for Sight shows off one of 750,000 'pinhole postcards' being distributed free to discourage people from looking directly at the sun during next month's eclipse. The cards are available at Vision Express and in 200 cinemas. Fight for Sight is concerned that people could damage ...
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King-pin wizards
The chief executive's traditional functions don't apply in PCGs. Now they need different skills, says Richard Banyard.