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Messages from the frontline
While primary care groups have a lot of support in principle, worries that practices will be reluctant to co-operate with each other remain. Michael Place and Andrew Street analyse the results of a series of workshops
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More upheaval set to follow long review of forces hospitals
Military hospitals are facing further change in the wake of an 18-month review prompted by concerns about staff shortages and morale raised by the defence select committee.
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A poor fit
Managers fear Northern Ireland's unique experience of joint health and social services may be under threat. Pat Healy reports
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King's Fund finds interpretation services are 'vital'
A King's Fund report has concluded that interpretation and advocacy services in primary care are 'vital' for meeting government targets for improving health among ethnic minority communities. The report calls for their 'precarious' funding position to be addressed.
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Reforms 'could lead to financial instability'
Finance managers have raised renewed concerns that a lack of guidance on implementing the detail of the government's NHS reforms could lead to financial instability.
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Social exclusion programme starts in Wales
Welsh Office minister Peter Hain has selected eight communities to take part in the Welsh Office's 'people in communities' programme. A development co-ordinator will be appointed in each area to identify the problems leading to soc ia l exclusion , draw up long term action plans and identify funding needs. ...
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Enough is never enough but too little is just too much
Despite promised cash injections, the NHS is heading towards instability
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Scottish GPs demand meeting with Galbraith
GP leaders in Scotland have demanded an urgent meeting with Scottish health minister Sam Galbraith to raise concerns about primary care trust appointments.
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Delivering the goods
Community maternity units have played an important role for women but primary care groups are casting doubt on their future. Elisabeth Baxter and colleagues look at a survey of mothers' and midwives' wishes and at GPs' reactions
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Six patient deaths trigger HA probe
An independent review triggered by the death of six patients with mental health problems has expressed 'considerable concern' about the conduct of internal investigations at East Herts trust.
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Crossing the flaw
Department of Health-commissioned analysis shows that the Conservatives' Health of the Nation strategy was flawed and had minimal impact. Mark Crail examines how its little publicised findings will inform Labour policy
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HA 'underestimates' PFI plan costs
The cost of replacing two acute hospital sites with one private finance initiative scheme may have been 'significantly underestimated' according to a report commissioned by the health authority behind the proposals.
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Conflicts in public health unravelled
Public health the vision and the challenge By Walter Holland and Susie Stewart Nuffield Trust 254 pages £30
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Tory conference
Let me confess right away that for the first time in many years I skipped the Tory conference in order to accompany the Blairs to China. That means I missed Ann Widdecombe's barn-storming speech and what appears to have been William Hague's barn-door-missing speech as well.
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Record compensation sparks maternity review
A hospital which has agreed Britain's largest medical compensation settlement is to hold an independent review of its maternity services.