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Neuroscience trust moves to purpose-built home
Britain's only integrated neuroscience trust moves into a new £22m building this weekend. Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery is moving from Walton Hospital in Liverpool, where it has been since 1947, to purpose-built accommodation next to Fazakerley Hospital.
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MP tries to halt Lighthouse sale
Liberal Democrat health spokesman Simon Hughes is to press the two NHS London regions to stop the London Lighthouse centre for people with HIV and AIDS from being sold in September.
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The great pretenders
Anyone can claim to be a paramedic, but steps are being taken to freeze out the fraudsters who blight the profession. Patrick Butler reports
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What a gas
Consultant anaesthetist Jake Alderson displays part of his collection of medical devices, which includes a child's iron lung from the 1950s and equipment used in the UK's first heart bypass surgery. Dr Alderson, who works at Northern General Hospital in Sheffield, hopes to open the first museum dedicated to anaesthesia.
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NICE work if you can fund it
Details of the government's quality drive are emerging, but managers are concerned at the lack of funding for the new initiatives and worried that they may be lost among other demands. Pat Healy reports
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Level-headed Milburn won't forget his friends
What does a minister do when he opens the Sunday newspapers and unexpectedly finds himself tipped for greatness: promotion to the Cabinet as chief secretary to the Treasury, the legendary 'Abominable No-Man', no less? It happened to Alan Milburn two weekends ago.
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Study finds quicker referral could save lives
GPs could have prevented one death in 20 by quicker referral, diagnosis and treatment or by prescribing aspirin to patients with vascular disease, a study has concluded.
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Listless feeling
The NHS has been told to pilot booking systems to replace waiting lists. Ruth Kipping visited New Zealand, where the change is being attempted nationwide
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Generous to a fault? What the experts say
King's Fund economists Sean Boyle and Anthony Harrison said: 'An extra £18bn in England over the next three years will bring total spending in the NHS to £46bn by March 2002.
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Siemens dumps system
Siemens Healthcare Services has dumped the OpenPAS patient administration system inherited from its takeover of ICL in 1996.
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Labour's first year: not what the doctors ordered
Laurence Buckman, GP negotiator 'They have promised much and done little. You do not build policy in a vacuum - you start from where people are - so it is not surprising a lot of their ideas have built on Conservative policy. But at times it has been difficult to ...
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Union fury at trust's 'cynical' outsourcing
Unions at University College London Hospitals trust have protested at its 'contemptible and cynical' outsourcing of information technology systems to market-leading health computing company HBOC. The £2m contract is part of UCLH's preparations for building a new hospital under a £160m private finance initiative deal.
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Your country needs you
Why can't the UK solve its nursing shortage? James Buchan examines the pattern of problems and solutions
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A matter for complaint
The health service commissioner does not deal with staff whistleblowers, and only a fraction of complaints from the public concern clinical judgement. Could he really help prevent a recurrence of the Bristol tragedy? Mark Gould finds out
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Troubled trust chief is suspended
The chief executive of Central Scotland Healthcare trust has been suspended on full pay pending an independent inquiry into allegations of overpayments to a small group of senior managers.
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Estates manager faces corruption charges
Former Frenchay Hospital estates manager David Smart has been sent for trial at Bristol Crown Court on corruption charges following an investigation of the way £1m of contracts were awarded.