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Going our not-so-separate ways on health and social services spending
In 'Separate ways' (26 November), Paul Jervis and Robert Hazell write that 'the latest figures indicate that Northern Ireland and Scotland receive around 30 per cent per capita more than England, while Wales receives around 15 per cent more'.
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White goods
Scotland's public health white paper is due early next month. Barbara Millar reports on what is likely to be in store
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SEMA Group
SEMA Group is to get the contract to build the National Strategic Tracing Service for the NHS Executive. The NSTS will enable administrators across the health service to trace the NHS numbers of all patients in England and Wales from their names and birth dates. SEMA was one of only ...
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PCG polls 'should not be run by HA'
An investigation into a botched primary care group election in Birmingham has recommended that future polls should not be handled by health authority officers.
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Patrick Herbert
Patrick Herbert is the new chair of Sussex Ambulance Service trust. Mr Herbert, a Labour Party member, pursued a career in international and merchant banking. He succeeds Martyn Long, who is retiring.
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Keep us posted
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Key points
An increase in the number of complications following male circumcisions performed by non-professionals led to the establishment of a special clinic for religious circumcisions.
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Key points
The performance indicators currently in use are not reliable for assessing individual GPs or identifying poor performers.
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Making a point:
Making a point: a midwife signs a postcard backing a Royal College of Midwives campaign for a 'fair deal' on pay and action to tackle staff shortages. The RCM hopes to deliver 30,000 postcards to Parliament to 'maintain pressure' on ministers in the run-up to an announcement by the nursing, ...
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Making their marker
Paul Myers is a GP and senior lecturer at the department of general practice and primary care, St Bartholomew's and the Royal London School of Medicine.
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monitor
Monitor wouldn't wish to suggest anyone was panicking about the millennium bug, but when hospitals start sinking their own wells to ensure continued water supplies 'just in case', there must be something going on. Northwick Park Hospital communications manager Brian Goodinson says the idea does hold other attractions, even if ...
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Such an old story
From poor law to community care The development of welfare services for elderly people 1939-1971 (2nd edition 1998) By Robin Means and Randall Smith The Policy Press 332 pages £45
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Box 1. Initial set of PCG functions: July 1998
Improve the health of the population within the primary care group
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Short cuts: Hayman details £10m of colorectal cancer projects
Junior health minister Baroness Hayman has unveiled details of how £10m set aside for improving colorectal cancer services will be spent. Examples include £104,000 for a 'fast-track' clinic in Eastbourne and £36,000 for Birmingham Women's Hospital to investigate genetic links in the disease, which kills 20,000 people a year. Health ...
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Environmental 'showpiece' gets £25.7m overhaul
St Mary's Hospital trust has been given the go-ahead for a £25.7m programme to replace the hospital's steel cladding.
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In favour of outreach, 'fretting' about rights
I was sorry to see that Michael White has misread the source of the King's Fund's 'fretting' (politics, 17 December).
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Patients win right to use medical records access act in litigation
A court ruling has now made it clear that there is nothing to stop patients using the Access to Health Records Act - which was never intended to be used in litigation - rather than the standard litigation procedures.
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Psychopathic disorder Therapy, rather than punishment for children, adolescents and adults
I would like to clarify several points in response to HW Griffiths' letter on psychopathic disorder (17 December).