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Dudley drops competitive tendering plans
A controversial scheme to market test community nursing has been dropped after the sudden departures of the chair, chief executive and chief nurse of the trust providing the service.
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The shape of things to come
A new region for the capital is one thing - but managers are divided over what it means for the rest of the South East. Thelma Agnew reports
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...YET GPs NEED TO KEEP A CLOSE WATCH ON CLINICAL SERVICES SO THAT THEY DON'T DISAPPEAR FOREVER
In recent months we have heard a lot about the new NHS and the formation of primary care groups, but little about the effect these changes will have on patients and patient services.
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SILENT VIGIL FOR UNBORN CHILDREN AND MOTHERS
I was interested in your picture of campaigners 'celebrating' the 30th anniversary of the implementation of the 1967 Abortion Act (News, page 5, 30 April).
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CHCs' chief goes in job showdown
Community health councils' chief Toby Harris has resigned after a fierce row within the organisation over 'conflicts of interest'.
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Chain reaction
Chain reaction: demonstrators form a human circle round the main building of the London Lighthouse centre for people with HIV and AIDS to draw attention to its plight. The event was organised by Save London Lighthouse Campaign, formed after withdrawal of NHS funding forced the charity to announce the closure ...
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DOCTORS AND NURSES ARE NOT THE ONLY CARERS
While recognising that Royal College of Nursing general secretary Christine Hancock is by necessity an advocate of the role of nurses (Observations, 14 May), it is nevertheless frustrating once again to read that doctors and nurses run the health service between them, and that nurses are the only professionals in ...
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Close call
When a health authority is looking for revenue savings, sooner or later its glance will fall on the local cottage hospital. But few such closure plans have been successfully completed, and some have caused HAs more time and effort than the savings justify. In almost every case, the HA has ...
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Juniors to call for New Deal rethink
Junior hospital doctors look set to call for a rethink of the New Deal on working hours this week as the British Medical Association's annual round of specialist group conferences gets underway.
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Bristol - the turning point
'The relationship between doctors and their patients, and between doctors and the health service, must change, for the haunting demeanour of the bereaved parents will have a profound impact'
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IN BRIEF
An acute services review of the NHS in Scotland was due on ministers' desks this week. The review is expected to place special emphasis on specialist services in rural areas, addressing what Sir David Carter, chief medical officer for Scotland, called the 'tyranny of distance imposed by Scotland's geography'. The ...
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Branding those who bury their mistakes BY MICHAEL WHITE
I did a little survey the other day and found that there are now 34 Labour doctors in the House, seven Tories and just one Liberal Democrat - Twickenham's Vince Cable. Doctors in the sense of PhDs and DPhils, of course. New Labour retains a touching Old Labour faith in ...
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It cuts both ways
John Maples' list of '101 hospital cuts and closures' must have seemed like such a good idea. Labour made great capital out of dossiers of cuts while it was in opposition and for a day or so the new shadow health secretary seemed bound for similar success.
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BMA to rewrite clinical competence guidance
Doctors' leaders are to issue new guidance to medical directors in a bid to ensure whistleblowers can take their fears about senior colleagues' clinical competence to managers working outside the trust concerned.
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Union blasts Scottish blood service shake-up that mirrors English move
Union leaders have condemned the biggest shake-up of Scotland's blood transfusion service in 50 years.
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Trust blames HA for deficit in discharges row
A feud has broken out over allegations that a health authority has pushed one of its local trusts into the red.
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A share of the blame
How much responsibility should commissioning authorities bear for detecting the kind of problems uncovered at Bristol Royal Infirmary's paediatric cardiac surgery unit?