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NHS lost millions in London site sale
The NHS lost millions of pounds on the disposal of a key London site in a deal with 'lessons' for the NHS Executive, according to a National Audit Office report.
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Shorter waits speak louder than words
I noted with interest Stephen Eames' letter (1 February). Mr Eames is acting as the chief executive of the Mount Vernon and Watford and the St Albans and Hemel Hempstead trusts, where he is intent on organising the type of merger he defends.
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Mind-blowing:
Mind-blowing: a scan of the brain of artist Jayne Gouge, taken by a magnetic resonance image scanner and superimposed on a family photograph, forms part of an exhibition 'exploring how everyday objects look under the exploratory eye of the MRI scanner'. The 'Chimera' show at London's Institute of Child Health ...
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monitor
Remember that letter from Dobbo asking how to improve the health service? Well, it's exactly a year since he sent it to a million staff in a bid to revive Royal Mail's fortunes. Alas it didn't turn out like that. Despite a deafening silence ever since, Monitor can exclusively reveal ...
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Safe-cracking
Imminent merger will not lessen the heat on a trust under fire over health and safety. Years of scrutiny are still ahead, writes Barbara Millar
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Do it yourself:
patient Kevin Groves (left) helps to do up his own hospital with help from chargehand Nigel Carley.
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NAO calls for 'strategic planning' on use of £3bn Scots NHS estate
More strategic thinking is needed to make the best use of Scotland's £3bn NHS estate, according to the National Audit Office.
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NHS contemplates race act compliance
Health service managers are considering how to comply with an expected extension of the Race Relations Act in the wake of the Stephen Lawrence inquiry.
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Legal adviser survey finds 'weaknesses'
A survey of NHS trusts has found a series of 'key weaknesses' in the performance of legal advisers.
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Rising fraud against NHS in Scotland
Fraud against the NHS in Scotland soared from just 14 reported cases valued at £29,000 to 65 cases totalling £200,000 last year, the commission reports.
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Campaign aims to cut patients' non-attendance
Health minister Baroness Hayman has asked 'waiting-list buster' Peter Homa to look at outpatient waiting times, after official figures showed that 1.3 million outpatient appointments - 11 per cent of the total - were 'wasted' in 1998 when patients did not show up.
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I say, let's all jolly well get stuck in to the web
As a communications manager in today's NHS, I would like to plead that chief executives everywhere make use of the technology and information that is literally at their own fingertips. Now that the NHS web is very much up and running, everyone who has access to it should use it, ...
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MPs call to limit PFI to pilot projects amid staff and patient care worries
MPs have called for reduced use of the private finance initiative in the health service until its impact has been properly evaluated through pilot schemes.