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In brief: British Medical Association
The British Medical Association has called for 'ultimate responsibility' for health and safety in the NHS to rest with the NHS Executive, rather than trust and health authority boards. The call is part of a 10point charter issued at the BMA's annual representative meeting.
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Ashworth set to join mainstream mental health service in wake of chief executive's departure
Ashworth special hospital is to be integrated further into mainstream NHS mental health services following the surprise departure last week of chief executive Hilary Hodge.
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Manchester ambulances booked via Internet
Greater Manchester Ambulance Service trust has become the first in the country to allow GPs to book non-emergency ambulances using NHSNet. The pilot scheme, which runs until October, is aimed at simplifying what the trust admits is a 'complicated and time consuming' system 'involving many telephone calls, booking forms and ...
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In brief: Public Health Alliance
The Public Health Alliance has published a report advocating a 'social model' of health.
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Health ministers' statements just ain't what they used to be
Baroness is no Bevanite on cottage hospitals or plain speaking
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Cancer framework 'fails to deliver equal access'
The cancer framework now being used as a model for national standards in other services is failing to deliver equal access to care, according to the MP who chairs the Commons all-party group on cancer.
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Trusts charge patients 'exorbitant' prices for medical record access
Trusts and GPs are imposing 'exorbitant' charges on patients seeking access to their medical records, according to a survey of 95 community health councils.
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Trust chief challenges DoH on 999 call system
A trailblazing trust chief executive has launched an outspoken attack on Department of Health officials over their alleged failure to acknowledge his trust's success in being first to meet a new 999 response-time target.
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Dobson weighs up £21bn cash boost
Health secretary Frank Dobson will announce today how the NHS is going to spend chancellor Gordon Brown's unprecedented £21bn give-away.
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16 July 1948
The King's Fund's future was raised at its annual genera l meeting by its president, the Duke of Gloucester.
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Party time
Party time: health secretary Frank Dobson and the 'first NHS patient' Sylvia Diggory returned to Trafford General Hospital, where Aneurin Bevan launched the health service in 1948, to celebrate its 50th anniversary on Sunday (main picture). Meanwhile (from top), June Catterall (nee Salisbury), the first baby born into the NHS ...
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Puzzling it out
When Tony Blair last addressed the annual conference of what was then the National Association of Health Authorities and Trusts, he said Labour would dismantle the internal market. He also pledged to avoid 'major upheaval'.
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Jarrold urges IHSM probe
The time has come for a fundamental review of the Institute of Health Services Management, former president Ken Jarrold told its annual general meeting.
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Sefton - initial hostility
There was initial hostility in Sefton to the whole idea of primary care groups. The local medical committee balloted its members, achieving a 61 per cent response rate, and found that 72 per cent were against the new organisations.