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Lowest wage rate 'won't affect NHS'
The national minimum wage will have no impact on the NHS, according to research.
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Losing the Commons touch action
Symbolism is always important. How disappointing, then, that party managers from both sides of the Commons are said to have rejected proposals to modernise the debating chamber. Leaving aside pressing constitutional issues, parliamentary weakness and executive dominance, cramped quarters are known to encourage aggression in rats - let alone honourable ...
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NHS faces entire Y2k bill
Trusts and HAs must prepare to be left in the lurch by their insurers on 1 January 2000, according to an NHS Executive report on the year 2000 problem.
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this week
Unison general secretary Rodney Bickerstaffe hits out at ministers' 'reckless' plans to build more hospitals using private finance, at the union's annual healthcare service group conference in Brighton. Delegates condemned the government's decision to stage the 1998 pay review body awards.
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Tomorrow's world
Schoolgirls Emma Giles (left) and Nichola Mason try their hand on a keyhole surgery simulator at the research and development showcase held at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.
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A sense of security
Ashworth Hospital's top managers insist it has a future beyond its current problems. Dolly Chadda reports
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Rural retreat
The first cottage hospital has closed despite Labour's pledge to retain them. Patrick Butler reports
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on the record
CLIVE BATES is director of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH). After gaining an engineering degree from Cambridge University he worked for IBM. In 1992 he joined Greenpeace as a volunteer, working in campaigning and lobbying before taking up his post at ASH last June.
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Psychiatry unit relocation plan a 'retrograde step'
A London health authority has been accused of planning to 'rebuild an asylum' by proposing to move a psychiatry unit from an acute to a community hospital.
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in person
Stephen Eames (above), chief executive of Havering Hospitals trust, has moved to a new job as project director for acute and specialist services in West Hertfordshire for a year. Mr Eames will take the role of chief executive of two trusts - St Albans and Hemel Hempstead and Mount Vernon ...
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monitor
Further signs that New Labour’s thought police have a tight grip on the health service emerged at a recent Northern and Yorkshire regional Institute of Health Services Management meeting. Among the speakers was NHS boss Alan Langlands, who once again poured forth about he how wanted everyone to be part ...
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King's new reign
The King's Fund is undergoing a massive shake-up as well as something of a slimming exercise. Pat Healy looks at the organisation that is emerging
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Paved with good intentions
The foundations of health action zones are set. It's now time to build local policies and structures. Lyn Whitfield reports
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The wait goes on
Latest figures suggest the continuous fall in long waits for hospital admission cannot be sustained. John Appleby reports
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What goes up. . .
MPs' inability to hold the NHS to account may be more of a problem than the 'democratic deficit'. Mark Crail reports
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Have they seen the future?
This week's announcement that 11 more hospitals have been approved under the private finance initiative is further proof that the government has succeeded in delivering a policy which defeated its predecessor (see News, page 3). Full marks to Frank Dobson and friends for consistency and integrity.