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Julian Nettel: 'The full story of Bristol has yet to emerge'
Concept and effect: 'The concept is a good one. But the name masks an almost endless series of questions that will only be answered as we all explore its meaning over time. As for its effect, the scary thing is that no one really knows the outcome of this as ...
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MPs from all three major parties have written an open letter to junior health minister John Hutton expressing concern that the government may discourage NHS funding of beta interferon. They want the National Institute for Clinical Excellence to draw up multiple sclerosis treatment guidelines 'as a matter of urgency'.
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Health minister John Denham has ordered a three-month public consultation on proposals to merge Hull and Holderness Community Health trust and East Yorkshire Community Healthcare trust. Meanwhile, ministers have approved the merger of Bedford and Shires Health and Care trust with South Bedfordshire Community Healthcare trust on 1 April. Durham ...
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'Almost all' NHS organisations met last year's 31 December deadline for safeguarding date-sensitive computers against the millennium bug, according to the NHS Executive. But the Executive is anticipating a drop in the number of trusts reporting 'satisfactory' or 'good' progress due to tougher human resources and emergency planning targets. Public ...
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East Anglian Ambulance trust has ordered £420,000 worth of telephone and radio communications equipment from Securicor for its regional control centre in Norwich. The contract is the first phase of a £2m programme and includes three extra transmitters. In the next stage, after April, all the trust's ambulances will be ...
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Doctors button up as wind of change blows through
Revalidation is in their own interests, as well as their patients'
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Louise Boden: 'It is a big sea change - right, but difficult'
Concept: 'I am delighted about clinical governance. It is long overdue. Relationships will be much stronger. It is going to make it necessary for there to be much more dialogue than may have been the case in some places.'
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Final bids invited for NHS Direct
The NHS Executive has invited bids for the third and final waves of NHS Direct, due to go live in December this year and autumn 2000.
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Bells ring as NHS Direct contracts go to HBOC
Four more NHS Direct contracts, worth a total of £2.9m, have gone to market leader HBOC.
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Stop me if you've heard these before
Fifty years of the National Health Service Continuities and discontinuities in health policy Edited by Robert Skelton and Valerie Williamson University of Brighton 136 pages £12
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Territorial Army manoeuvres cause 'conflict' between MoD and NHS
The Ministry of Defence is risking 'conflict' with the NHS over plans to recruit 2,000 extra doctors and nurses to the Territorial Army, MPs have warned.
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Roylance appeal focuses on 'bias'
Former Bristol Royal Infirmary chief executive John Roylance has claimed that the General Medical Council's decision to strike him off for failing to stop a series of fatal heart operations on children was 'profoundly unsatisfactory'.
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Pay proposals spark 'disgust and dismay' among unions
Battle lines were drawn over the long-awaited proposals for a new pay system for the NHS as soon as health secretary Frank Dobson announced them in the Commons this week.
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Ambulance trusts behind in IT bug fight
Five of England's 36 ambulance trusts are making 'unsatisfactory' progress in mopping up year 2000 computer problems, according to reports from regional directors.