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Ministers double cash in sop to mental health policy critics
Ministers moved to head off further criticism of their controversial policy of ending care in the community this week by doubling the money on offer to create alternative services.
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Complementary care is rising in the health service on a tide of half truths
It appears from your News Focus on 'integrated health care' (page 16, 4 June) that this term is being advanced to cover a concoction of orthodox and complementary medicine.
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Lighthouse wins fight for building
The London Lighthouse charity for people with HIV and AIDS has won its battle to stay in its purpose-built premises in Notting Hill, west London. But its residential services will close at the end of September.
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A breach too far?
Plans to merge two trusts may have to be recalled from the health secretary's office this week and rethought - because the Department of Health appears to be unable to decide on the legal rules covering trust finances.
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White men skew boards
NHS boards in Greater London are top heavy with white, middle-aged men, says a survey by the Greater London Association of Community Health Councils.
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GPs in minority on new Welsh local health group boards
GPs will be in a minority on local health group boards, Welsh health minister Win Griffiths has told the British Medical Association.
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Blair seeks to calm unions' pay fears
Prime minister Tony Blair last week moved to pacify health service unions angry that the independence of the pay review bodies had been undermined by new terms of reference set out in the comprehensive spending review.
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Purchasers and providers in battle for 'unified' Confederation chair
Senior figures from both sides of the health service's purchaser- provider divide are set to contest next month's election to appoint
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Audit Commission considers quality and patient's view as well as efficiency
Kieran Walshe's thought-provoking piece on the NHS Executive consultation paper on quality (Open Space, pages 18-19, 9 July) states that 'the establishment of the Commission for Health Improvement can also be seen as an implicit criticism of the Audit Commission for failing to tackle issues of clinical performance and sticking ...
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Audit Commission denies 'inside track' deal
The Audit Commission has been left red-faced by the recent 'cash- for access' row after it emerged it had hired controversial parliamentary lobbyists Lawson Lucas Mendelsohn to provide a 'public affairs' service.
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Police, not hospitals, should press charges in cases of attacks on staff
You report the Lord Chancellor's recommendation that magistrates should impose appropriately tough sentences on people found guilty of attacking health workers (News, page 6, 25 June).
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'It was the wrong time for beautiful architecture'
Completed in 1970, Northwick Park Hospital (above) was too late to be included in English Heritage's listing proposals, but it may be singled out next time. If so, it is bound to cause consternation. For the building is universally regarded as an ugly concrete sprawl, even though it has proved ...
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Monitoring quality and clinical performance Whistleblowers must make approach to regulatory bodies themselves
You reported my recent appearance before the House of Commons public administration committee (News Focus, page 12-13, 16 July). It must have been in a parallel universe: the meeting I attended was very different.
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Two new health authority chairs have been appointed in the North West region.
Two new health authority chairs have been appointed in the North West region. Alan Bullen, who is leader of West Lancashire district council, becomes chair of South Lancashire HA. Vourneen Darbyshire, a solicitor, becomes chair of North West Lancashire HA. She is a former non-executive director of Blackpool, Wyre and ...
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'Bristol babies' chief to appeal
Former trust chief executive John Roylance is to appeal to the Privy Council after being struck off by the General Medical Council for his part in the Bristol heart babies case.
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Answers that give rise to another set of questions Despite forthcoming guidance on primary care groups, anomalies remain
The greater detail due to be set out in guidance on primary care groups within a matter of weeks - and reported in HSJ's news pages this week - suggests that ministers and civil servants have listened and taken on board many of the concerns voiced by the NHS (see ...
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Andrew Woodhead
has been appointed acting chief executive of Wellhouse trust. He is currently a senior performance manager with North Thames regional office and was previously chief executive of Haringey Healthcare trust. He starts his appointment on 3 August in a shadow capacity.
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Armless amusement
With reference to Monitor's comment on the King's Fund's 'dead sloth' logo (page 64, 25 June), the creature is obviously trying to puzzle out why it has three legs and one arm, and wondering how this can be part of a quality service.
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Private ambulance services' fury over paramedic register
Private ambulance operators have threatened legal action against plans for a national register of paramedics - claiming that it is an attempt to squeeze them out of the 30m 'public and sporting events' market.
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Share and share alike
Money for tackling waiting lists was supposed to be targeted only at 'imaginative and effective' schemes. Patrick Butler queries the methodology