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Time limit on healthy living Lottery funds
Healthy living centres will have to support themselves when Lottery grants run out, the government's new Lottery body said last week.
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Hague meets health workers in UK listen-in
Opposition leader William Hague met health professionals in Edinburgh last week as part of his UK-wide 'listening to Britain' campaign. About 10 journalists and 25 others turned up and told the Mr Hague that the current ills of the NHS were largely the result of 18 years of Conservative government.
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Heretic's six-figure salaries - that's rich
I was dismayed at the attitude behind Heretic's snide throwaway line about half of all hospital consultants now earning six-figure salaries
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A hole in the wall
Not everyone is convinced that the government's proposals for joint working with social services will deliver what is needed. Thelma Agnew reports
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Joined-up thinking on human resources strategy
A welcome lack of pious platitudes, but a sting in the tail - and a catch
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IT strategy loosens Whitehall red tape
The Whitehall straitjacket on IT procurement is being loosened as part of a 'radical modernisation programme' for information management in the NHS.
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monitor
It's good to know the government's really making an impact with initiatives aimed at tackling youth unemployment. Witness the case of young Tom, who was thrown out of work in May last year along with hundreds of his workmates. Now, Tom associated with some pretty dodgy characters in his time, ...
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The new chief executive of the National Blood Authority will be Martin Gorham, director of projects and corporate affairs at the NHS Executive, South Thames. Mr Gorham is experienced at turning round troubled organisations. He was chief executive of the London Ambulance Service for four years from 1992.
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Prescription for recovery
Targets should be set to reduce inequity in access to free contraception and abortion services across London.
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Siren voices
In its first major report on the emergency ambulance service, the Audit Commission calls for action to deal with rising demand. Mark Crail reports
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View to a skill
Developing primary care groups is arguably the central plank of the reforms outlined in The New NHS white paper.
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NHS year 2000 debugging 'on course'
The NHS Executive has hit back at parliamentary criticism of its year 2000 bug efforts, claiming that recent reports from trusts and health authorities show it is 'on course to meet its requirements'.
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Unhappy returns for the NHS at 50
NHS Executive in association with the Doctor-Patient Partnership and the Health Education Authority 64 pages Free
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Lib Dems: beware bringing the local touch to health Any pretence at providing a truly national service would be abandoned
People queued in the street to buy copies of Sir William Beveridge's weighty tome on establishing the welfare state when it was published in 1942; the BBC broadcast its recommendations to Europe in 22 languages. The fanfare greeting the Liberal Democrats' nine-page policy document, Moving Ahead, was a little more ...
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Labour warned by academics on drift towards centralisation
Labour looks set to repeat a key Conservative error by imposing heavy-handed central control on the NHS, according to the most comprehensive review yet of the last set of reforms.
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Change in account rules could spell the end for PFI
Strict new accountancy rules will mean the end of the private finance initiative in the health service, it has been predicted.