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Why making some noise may keep the cash coming
While the public stay committed to the NHS, the government must listen
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Be sceptical of the capitalists
Resale price maintenance is a remarkable device for ensuring that the manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers of over-the counter drugs are kept in the style to which they are accustomed. The consumer can go to Asda and buy Anadin, a branded aspirin product protected by RPM, for about £1.80.
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Region rejects calls for inquiry into mental health deaths
Anglia and Oxford region has rejected a call for an independent inquiry into its handling of mental health services following a series of deaths blamed by campaigners on 'incompetence and mismanagement'.
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Senior managers broke NHS pay rules
Senior health service managers repeatedly broke NHS pay regulations to award themselves and colleagues thousands of pounds to which they were not entitled, an inquiry has found.
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In brief: Scotland's NHS
Scotland's NHS is to spend £6m on the next phase of a plan to connect the country's 370 hospitals and health boards to its 1,075 GP surgeries. The first phase provided £7m to equip GP practices with Windows NT machines and ISDN connections to a private BT network. The second ...
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In brief: Pharm-line
Pharm-line, the medicines bibliographic database developed by Guy's and St Thomas' trust, is now available in a searchable form over the NHSnet, at IP address 194.19.117.4.
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In brief: SMS
SMS wishes to make clear that, of the two redundancies reported in last month's IT Input, only one was in the UK. The other was in Ireland. The company emphasises that it is not reducing its NHS marketing activities.
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In brief: Nicola Oldmeadow
A sentence of two years probation on bogus nurse Nicola Oldmeadow was too small a penalty to deter others 'wanting to con their way into nursing', said the UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting. Ms Oldmeadow worked for a string of nursing homes and agencies using the ...
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In brief: Private finance initiative
Two out of three Labour MPs believe the private finance initiative will cost more than a publicly funded hospital building programme, Unison has claimed. It said a survey of 100 'old and new' Labour MPs found that just under half thought PFI would worsen NHS staff pay and conditions.
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In brief: GP co-operatives
Measures to control demand for services provided by GP co-operatives will be needed to stop the rota commitments of members rising, says a report from the National Primary Care Research and Development Centre.
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In brief: OpenMind
About 2 per cent of children hear voices, according to an article in OpenMind, the journal of mental health charity Mind. It questions existing research suggesting that voice hearing becomes worse as children get older.
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Board games
Three managers named in a report alleging financial mismanagement at a health board have left, while the fourth faces a disciplinary hearing. Matthew Limb reports
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Hospital board 'misled' on deficit
NA senior finance manager at a London teaching hospital has been suspended after auditors found the trust board had been 'misled' over the scale of its deficit.
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BMA raises data security worry
Doctors' negotiators are preparing to demand extra controls on the new NHS-wide number-tracing service.
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Liverpool GP wins top BMA post
Liverpool GP Ian Bogle has been elected chair of the British Medical Association's council, succeeding Sir Alexander Macara who stood down last week.
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Shamed and blamed
Former hospital orderly Paul Corney was convicted of administering prescription drugs to a motorway crash victim.
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Country protesters go to town in bid to save small hospitals
Westminster was hit by the second countryside protest in six months last week. But this time it wasn't the middle England of hunting, shooting and fishing fame.
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DoH backs research on homeless people and GPs
The Department of Health is to sponsor research to identify areas where homeless people have persistent trouble getting access to GPs. The initiative forms part of an action programme coming out of the second report of the government's social exclusion unit. It sets a target of reducing the number of ...