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In Brief: Campaign for Freedom of Information annual award
Neil Woodward, a medical scientist who exposed the extent of misreporting of cervical smears at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital on Channel 4's Dispatches programme last year, has received a Campaign for Freedom of Information annual award.
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Fast among equals
Furious debate about waiting times doesn't just happen in the UK. Tony Sheldon reports on a row about fast-track treatment preoccupying the egalitarian Dutch as they cast their votes
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In Brief: Hospital porters ballot on industrial action
Hospital porters at Leicester Royal Infirmary are threatening to hold a ballot on industrial action following the breakdown of talks over plans by private contractor Serco, which provides portering services at the hospital, to scrap their bonus payments.
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In Brief: Values into Action study
Hundreds of thousands of pounds are being wasted keeping people with learning difficulties in residential care when it would be cheaper to help them live at home, a government-funded study by the charity Values into Action says. The Cost of Opportunity: purchasing strategies in the housing and support arrangements of ...
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Raised hope of health action for N Ireland
Action to change the structure of health and personal social services could be taken within days of the setting up of the proposed new Northern Ireland assembly, health minister Tony Worthington said last week.
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Mental health groups accuse Labour of going back on election promises
Mental health groups reacted with dismay this week to the government's asyet still-secret plans for a shift in policy on community care backed by £50m a year investment in NHS mental health services.
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In Brief: Berkshire health authority accepts liability
Berkshire health authority has accepted liability for the severe brain damage at birth of Lesley Wildsmith, now aged 24.
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In Brief: Year 2000 bug
Less than a quarter of NHS computer systems have been safeguarded against the year 2000 bug, according to preliminary findings of a survey by the independent consultancy Solace, commissioned by software house Prove It 2000. Only 6 per cent of the 1,024 organisations surveyed hold guarantees that the bug will ...
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Slow on the uptake
Managers' slothful practices in costing hospital equipment are wasting millions of pounds of NHS money every year, say Peter Cave and Leonora Descombes. And they don't even know they're doing it
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Showing the way
Drugs czar Keith Hellawell sits in front of the giant IMAX cinema screen at the Trocadero Centre in London during the launch of the government's 10year strategy to tackle drug misuse in Britain.
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Screen performance
Some health authorities are failing to meet their cervical screening targets. MarkCrail reports on the best and worst
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Who's sorry now?
If Frank Dobson went down badly at the RCN congress, his Tory counterpart did even worse. Lyn Whitfield reports
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monitor
Monitor was intrigued to hear of further changes at the Patients Association. First, general manager Cathy Gritzner cut in half the amount of time she spent there, while rejecting any suggestions of a putsch. Now it emerges she has left the association altogether. She is considering a job offer in ...
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Make the young pay for the old
Thinking the unthinkable is a New Labour buzz phrase, particularly in relation to the welfare state and its flagship, the NHS. But how unthinkable? How courageous are our politicians prepared to be in formulating policy? How much imagination will managers be allowed to show, and health professionals and patients be ...