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More ambulances meet 999 targets despite rise in emergency journeys
More ambulances met 999 response-time targets last year, despite a 4 per cent rise in the number of emergency journeys, official figures reveal.
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Bevan's babies at 50
It was the year of the austerity Olympics in London, the first Polo mint rolled off the production line, bread was tuppence a loaf, and the NHS was born, along with 905,000 babies in the UK. Bernadette Friend tracked down some of Bevan's 1948 babies - who went on to ...
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Medical product companies refuse to sign year 2000 IT bug guarantees
Medical product manufacturers are collectively refusing to sign year 2000 IT compliance certificates sent to them by trusts.
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A 'third way' to promotion?
comment: Health minister's vision is safely built on public service values
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Opening up
Managing high security psychiatric care Edited by Charles Kaye and Alan Franey Jessica Kingsley Publishers 240 pages £19.95
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Milburn outlines his vision of 'third way' for public services
Health minister Alan Milburn last week set out his view of the way forward for public services, harnessing the Blairite jargon of the 'third way' to range far beyond his NHS brief to take in education and social services.
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Hearing voices
Staff whose views are rarely made public speak out on the meaning of the NHS's 50th anniversary in a new book, Other Voices. Author Patrick Butler explains
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hansard
Since 1991, a total of 29 trusts and health authorities have been found to have broken health and safety laws. Last year, Surrey Heartlands trust, Premier Health trust, Community Health Sheffield trust, Leeds Community and Mental Heath trust, Gloucestershire Ambulance Service trust, Eastbourne Hospital trust and Swindon and Marlborough trust ...
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Scots parliament will 'have handle' on health
The new Scottish parliament will have unprecedented power to interfere in the running of health boards and trusts, and could jeopardise partnerships between the NHS and local government, some managers fear.
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The graduate
Nursing auxiliary Sharon Smith meets education secretary David Blunkett as he visits Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, to launch a scheme offering staff who missed out on formal education the opportunity to 'return to learn'. Fifteen members of staff are taking part in the project, which is a joint initiative by ...
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Going, going. . . not yet gone
Everyone agrees the government should get rid of the Mental Health Act. But they may be disappointed. Mark Gould reports
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Light fantastic
Pain control nurse Sharon Baldwin at the launch of Leeds Teaching Hospitals trust's Snoezelen room - thought to be the first in the UK to be used for acute pain control.
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Fair shares of the kitty?
Are chief executives overpaid? Barbara Millar investigates the controversy surrounding managers' pay
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Using his faculty
James McEwen, the Faculty of Public Health's new president, believes local action is the key to making public health work. Barbara Millar reports