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Getting the cold shoulder
Has Sam Galbraith's personal winter crisis damaged his chances of becoming Scotland's first health minister? Colin Wright reports; 'For a man who was presented as a 'safe pair of hands', he has begun to look a little clumsy'
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When the chips are down
Some hospitals now seem confident of thwarting the millennium computer bug. Other are worried about basic utilities and concern over IT staffing levels is widespread. Peter Mitchell reports; 'Staffing over the meltdown period is the real problem'
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St Tony of Lost Causes tends the sick at heart
Now that Charlie Whelan has hung up his boots as spin doctor to Chancellor Brown it is safe to say without fear of reprisal that there are distinct dangers attached to over-cleverness in his trade.
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Executive steps in to prevent GP 'carve-up'
A regional office has stepped in to prevent a health authority paying GPs to manage a primary care group instead of appointing a chief executive.
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Cancer trials: money is not only currency of success
Alan Maynard's article ('Looking Askance', 19 November), on the cost-effectiveness of cancer services, was disappointing in its narrowness of approach.
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Fancy brick work
How much support exists for the health select committee's proposal to integrate fully health and social services, wonders Pat Healy; 'Bringing them together would be a disaster. You can't force people to work together'
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Commissioners call for spending boost to finance free elderly care
What the commission recommends
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Ministers want single pay review body structure as part of modernisation drive
Ministers floated their first thoughts on how the proposed new pay system for the NHS might work this week - just as they are gearing up to announce this year's pay awards, which sources say will be on 4 February.
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Nurses on PCG boards
5 February, London; 12 February, York; 19 February, Liverpool; 26 February, Cambridge; 5 March, Derby
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Medicine: not the best laughter
Seven ages of nursing By Mark Radcliffe NT Books 122 pages £6.50
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Managers 'will bear the brunt of GP overspend'
Managers could bear the brunt of unpopular measures to deal with GP overspends in the reformed NHS, the Office of Health Economics has predicted.
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Fixer's trust has bad debts
A top NHS manager drafted in to troubleshoot at a London trust facing a £6m deficit has admitted his own trust has run up a £3m bad debts loss.
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Soviet-style back-stabbing and political goulash - welcome to PCGs
In April, primary care groups - still talking shops without secretariats - will 'go live', setting pro and anti-fundholders together, in an attempt at enforcing unifying policies among GPs of diverse opinion. Similarly, nurses, health visitors, social workers and political appointees will be plunged into the melting pot, the inevitable ...
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High Court backs HA on 'downgrade'
Campaigners who took Worcestershire health authority to court, claiming a consultation exercise on plans to downgrade Kidderminster General Hospital was 'dishonest', have been defeated.
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'Even the best performers have much to do, but some have an awful lot more to do than others'
Taking the slow road: Scotland's year 2000 problem
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Former nurse Ann Keen
Former nurse Ann Keen has been appointed parliamentary private secretary to health secretary Frank Dobson. The Brentford and Isleworth MP was also general secretary of the Community and District Nursing Association until her election in 1997. She succeeds Hugh Bayley, now a social security minister.
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All hands on deck
The former admiral seconded to Ashworth Hospital in the wake of the damning Fallon report has his work cut out. Laura Donnelly looks at the options
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Upheaval, mayhem, poor morale - and all for what? Merger mania is causing seismic shifts that may not fulfil expectations
On 1 April the NHS structure throughout the UK will look radically different to how it did just 23 months earlier when Labour came to power. A decade ago, the service protested shrilly against the pace of change instigated by the Thatcher reforms; the internal market took three years to ...
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Community and mental health trust opts to outsource all its IT
HBOC has won a £3.6m, seven-year contract to manage all IT at Chichester Priority Care Services trust. The deal makes Chichester the first community and mental health trust to outsource its entire IT operation.