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Government should define core services, say LibDems
Central government should take the lead in defining a 'core' set of NHS services, with local authorities able to offer extras from within their own budgets, Liberal Democrat health spokesman Simon Hughes said this week.
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'No commitment' is not the final word
As you reported (News Focus, page 14, 25 June), in a meeting with 10 leading mental health organisations on 11 June, junior health minister Paul Boateng indicated there was no government commitment to reviewing the Mental Health Act 1983.
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Forces hospital is set for closure
One of Britain's two remaining military hospitals will close at the end of the financial year.
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Policy ini tiatives stir NHS cash hopes
Health secretary Frank Dobson claimed this week that waiting lists had started to fall, as ministers launched a flurry of policy initiatives in the run-up to the NHS's 50th anniversary on Sunday.
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in brief
Nine out of 10 NHS organisations are making satisfactory progress in dealing with the year 2000 computer bug, NHS chief executive Sir Alan Langlands claimed this week. He said an NHS Executive survey 'reveals the NHS is much further on in responding to this problem than recent reports by the ...
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Targets will boost women chairs and non-execs
Health authorities and trusts can expect an influx of new women chairs and non-executive directors as ministers fall into line with the cross-government targets launched this week.
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Beholden to Bevan
'The new health service has been having a most uneasy gestation and a very turbulent birth, but all prodigies behave like that... We shall never have all we need. Expectation will always exceed capacity ... the service must always be changing, growing and improving; it must always appear inadequate.'
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Hold on to your seats until the money's been counted
We've had the commemorative 50p piece; will we have the commemorative pounds 10bn extra by the end of the week? The eyes of the NHS - indeed, of the nation - will be fixed intently on the conference podium at Earl's Court on Thursday at 9.25am. This could be a ...
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Doctors should have been forced to retrain, not barred for three years
I find the recent General Medical Council decisions - regarding one of the Bristol surgeons and the anaesthetist involved in the paediatric dental case - extraordinary.
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Nurses make claims to autonomy, so why didn't they blow the whistle?
I welcome health secretary Frank Dobson's announcement of a public inquiry into the tragic deaths of the children 'cared' for at Bristol Royal Infirmary. I have a number of reservations, which I hope will be part of the inquiry, although I have no great faith that they will be.
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Assembly line
Jan Williams, chief executive of Iechyd Morgannwyg HA, tried hard not to sound too pessimistic about the future of Welsh HAs under a National Assembly.
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The appliance of science
Managers are being told to take a more scientific approach to their work. Pat Healy reports from the European Healthcare Management Association conference in Dublin
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Another woman chief executive writes...
I read with interest and surprise 'A gender for change' (pages 24-27, 11 June). What particularly surprised me was Hilary Pepler indicating that 'all the other chief executives in Liverpool are men'.
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Minister's written guarantees on PCGs fail to mollify angry GPs
Angry GPs are demanding further concessions on the structure, make up and resourcing of primary care groups, despite written guarantees from health minister Alan Milburn.
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Andrew Riley
has joined South Warwickshire General Hospitals trust as chief executive. He originally trained as a radiographer and held various posts in the NHS before spending a brief spell in the private sector, working for a computer company. He returned to the NHS in 1990 and was most recently acting chief ...
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CHCs face a shake-up after damning report
Community health councils have largely failed in their role as local NHS watchdogs and are in need of a radical overhaul, according to a report backed by the NHS Executive.
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BMA backs calls to close A&Es
Doctors' leaders have thrown their weight behind the idea of 'super hospitals' serving half a million people each, claiming that local hospitals do not have the technology to save patients' lives.