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Making sure we're on target in Scotland
Your news focus on the Scottish public health white paper (page 14, 25 February) contained an error. The targets for coronary heart disease, cancer and cerebrovascular disease apply to the population aged under 75.
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Matron does the rounds
Shadow health secretary Ann Widdecombe was in fine form at the Tories' spring forum and put PCGs on notice. Patrick Butler listened in
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Non-medical members of the team have much to offer
GPs have dominated discussion of the NHS reforms, with less attention paid to the views of non-medical members of the primary health team. In our shadow primary care group - which covers 87,000 patients and 15 practices - anecdotal evidence suggested that staff felt uninformed about PCGs and were anxious ...
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monitor
Like all good media barons, Lord Monitor was present in the Upper House for the committee stage of the Health Bill. It was not a good day for the fragrant Baroness Hayman, who got into difficulties defending the Commission for Health Improvement's absolute right to say anything it likes about ...
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Trusts 'saving on nurses'
Trusts must stop trying to save money by employing fewer senior nurses, Royal College of Nursing general secretary Christine Hancock demanded last week.
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Staff strike as PFI row rumbles on
Indefinite strike action by staff protesting against a private finance initiative project was due to start this week at one of London's largest trusts.
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Rationing and privatisation are not solutions
Dorothy White has highlighted the often covert discrimination in the NHS exercised against older people ('Rational thinking', 25, page 11 February).
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Brown promises £500m extra for NHS
Chancellor Gordon Brown saved the announcement of an extra £500m for the NHS until the dying minutes of his Budget speech on Tuesday.
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Short cuts £40m earmarked to put an end to mixed-sex wards
The government is directing £40m of this year's £1.1bn NHS capital investment programme towards eliminating mixed-sex wards. Health secretary Frank Dobson, who described the allocation as 'the first real-terms increase in capital for the NHS in the last five years', said 95 per cent of health authorities should be able ...
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Probe reveals ambulance trust 'overstated' 999 response times
An ambulance trust 'overstated' emergency response times, an investigation has found.
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Short cuts Call for action on private healthcare 'deficiencies'
The government has been urged to tackle 'fundamental deficiencies' in private healthcare by Action for Victims of Medical Accidents. In evidence to the health select committee, AVMA says 'inadequate specialist medical and nursing cover' is a 'critical factor' in failures to diagnose post- operative complications at private hospitals. It says ...