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Langlands is forced to admit failings by NHS Executive over Read codes
NHS chief executive Sir Alan Langlands has been forced into a grudging and embarrassing admission of NHS Executive failures in handling the Read computer codes.
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Book adds to criticism of Health of the Nation
The Health of the Nation programme launched by the former Conservative government has come under fire for the second time in two weeks, this time from right-wing think-tank the Social Market Foundation.
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Lights, music, and action
Care worker Sheena Carle (left) and Hilary Monger try out the new Thunderama at The Towse, a therapeutic daycare centre for people with learning disabilities in East Grinstead, Surrey, run by the Lifecare trust.
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where are they now? No 88 Guy Howland
Pocket profile Jovial, mercurial civil servant turned NHS policy wonk and patients' champion. Private secretary to the late Sir Roy Griffiths.
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Poll shows over-55s miss out on hearing tests
A MORI poll for the Royal National Institute for Deaf People has found that only 22 per cent of people aged 55 and over have had a hearing test in the past 10 years, compared with 87 per cent who had taken an eye test. RNID chief executive James Strachan ...
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NHS scoops £2m for treatment of drugs misuse
The Scottish Office has announced an extra £5m to tackle drugs-related crime and increase the availability of treatment for drug misusers. The NHS will receive £2m for treatment programmes. Other measures include a £700,000 national drug prevention team, plans for increased multi-agency working and a Health Education Board drive against ...
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15 October 1948
The divorce between hospitals and the authorities concerned with public and social medicine has already been noticed and deplored. The issue now is to organise practical means of bridging the gap. There is great opportunity for closely integrating local authorities' preventive, after-care and social medicine services within the structure of ...
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WEB WATCH
Rumour and speculation are rife during times of change, says Manchester health authority chief executive Neil Goodwin. And the best way to counter them, of course, is to provide access to reliable and comprehensive information - which is just what the HA is doing with its new website.
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On the record
PHIL GRAY became chief executive of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy this summer. He was formerly head of labour relations for the Royal College of Nursing.
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Nyes not Tonies
An award for good practice named after the founder of the NHS was one of the 'appetisers' thrown to Labour delegates at Blackpool, but they made it clear that pay is still the key issue. Patrick Butler reports
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Widdecombe sets out stall in right-wing vision for NHS
The Conservatives broke 16 months of near-silence on health this week to emerge with a bold, distinctly rightwing vision of a 'core' NHS, supplemented by private healthcare.
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Who says the NHS Confederation never upsets anyone? The row after its pay evidence featured on Radio Four's To d a y programme as 'previously unpublished' proof of a nursing crisis had to be heard to be believed. It seems Confed boss Stephen Thornton anticipated an uproar and tried to ...
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Money's too tight to mention
One of the most fiercely opposed hospital merger plans has failed to deliver the promised millions in of pounds in savings. Last week, managers met the public to explain why. Lyn Whitfield was there
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Plaster makes perfect
Christine Smith, a technician from Calderdale Healthcare trust, applies a new form of plaster cast at a four-day workshop in Bradford. The technique uses a single material and results in shorter, lighter and more comfortable casts than traditional methods.
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A job for strife
The health service commissioner has been investigating patients' complaints for the past 25 years. Richard Oswald, a former NHS manager, looks at the office's past, present and future.