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'Hello!' begins a chatty Alan Langlands. 'I am sending this e-mail to all chief executives of health authorities and NHS trusts in England to see how many of you can receive e-mail using this route, and to check we have your correct contact details.' The Exec is planning a 'learning ...
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Penny for their thoughts
New taxes. No taxes. There was an option for everyone when the four main parties revealed their plans for the Scottish Parliament. Colin Wright reports
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Laurie Capel, former chief executive of Northumbria Ambulance Service trust, has been appointed acting chief executive of the newly formed North East Ambulance Service trust. Robert Alabaster, former chief executive of Durham County Ambulance Service trust, has become acting director of corporate affairs. Other interim appointments include David Hodge, former ...
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Failed software fiasco costs hospital £64,000
A Trent hospital has written off nearly £64,000 because a specialist computer package was not up to the job.
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Jobs at risk as trusts 'face £100m crisis'
Patient services and jobs are at risk as London trusts face a £75m cash crisis, figures obtained by HSJ show.
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Blair offers £280m for walk-in centres
Prime minister Tony Blair has unveiled a £280m package to improve patient access to the NHS.
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£48m boost to help reduce social exclusion in Wales
Welsh secretary Alun Michael has announced that £48m will be spent tackling social exclusion in the principality over the next three years. The first tranche of £8m, to be spent in the current financial year, will support drug and alcohol treatment services, promote local initiatives to encourage young people away ...
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Treasury accused of stalling PFI
The Department of Health has given outline approval for 10 third- wave private finance initiative hospital building schemes amid concerns that an overall review of PFI is being stalled by Treasury interference.
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Time to set a finishing line Ministers should say what the NHS reforms must achieve in the long term
Prime minister Tony Blair made his first foray into the health service since last year's NHS 50th anniversary this week (see news, pages 2-3). His appearance to launch 20 new 'walk-in centres' and announce a dramatically widened NHS Direct demonstrates how seriously this government takes primary care reform.
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Dramatic figures on obesity spark new action plan
A new action plan to tackle rising levels of obesity has been announced by public health minister Tessa Jowell following new figures showing dramatic increases in the last five years. The Health Survey for England: adult reference tables 1997 shows that 17 per cent of men and 20 per cent ...
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Streets ahead
A project with a GP surgery is providing healthcare for homeless people who often can't get access to it. But its funding is in danger, writes Kaye McIntosh
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Grant aimed at helping mentally ill find employment
The National Schizophrenia Fellowship has been awarded £170,000 by the Department for Education and Employment to help people with severe mental illness into sustained employment in London and Essex. It is believed to be the first time money from employment - rather than social care - has been used to ...