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One step beyond
An experiment in the Netherlands could point to the future for cross-border healthcare following a landmark EU ruling. But the Department of Health may challenge it. Tony Sheldon reports from Utrecht
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BMA blames managers for junior doctors' stress
Managers have been blamed for most of the work-related stress suffered by junior doctors in a report from the British Medical Association.
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Health board and union in clash over closure
Greater Glasgow health board has recommended the closure of a hospital for 300 patients with learning difficulties.
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'Political pressure' to bring down waiting lists, claim Conservatives
The Conservatives traded insults with government ministers this week over claims that 'immense political pressure' was being put on managers to improve waiting list statistics.
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Broadmoor strike threat over rotas
Broadmoor special hospital was pitched into fresh crisis this week when the Prison Officers' Association threatened to hold a ballot on strike action unless management took immediate steps to ease 'severe and critical' staff shortages.
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Calman urges improved salaries for cytologists
Chief medical officer Sir Kenneth Calman has urged trust managers to improve cytologists' pay as part of an 'action plan' to strengthen the national cervical screening programme.
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Communicating flaws
The London Ambulance Service is linking up with a telephone interpreting line in a bid to improve its work with ethnic minorities. Anna Minton reports
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Winning the day
Scotland has improved its day surgery performance, and even convinced sceptical GPs. Barbara Millar reports
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PFI 'milestone' for Edinburgh
Contracts have been signed for Scotland's flagship private finance initiative hospital building project - a 180m replacement for Edinburgh's Royal Infirmary, City Hospital and Princess Margaret Rose Orthopaedic Hospital.
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Transfers to NHS from jail 'too slow'
The chief inspector of prisons has alerted home secretary Jack Straw to 'totally unacceptable' delays in transferring mentally ill prisoners from Long Lartin jail to the NHS.
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Mis-sold pensions settled 'speedily'
Unions have welcomed the 'pretty speedy' progress finally being made in resolving the personal pensions mis-selling scandal that hit tens of thousands of NHS staff in the 1980s.
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Tight timing for PCG start
Health authorities have been given a tight timetable for getting the first piece of the primary care group funding jigsaw in place.
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Unhealthy fears from the 1950s to the 1990s
Moral panics By Kenneth Thompson Routledge 142 pages 10.99
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Debunking the magic 21bn
A Department of Health press release on 29 July announced the funding of 'assertive outreach teams' to care more efficiently for mentally ill people in the community.
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36.6% applying to medicine are ethnic minorities
The number of ethnic minority candidates trying to become doctors and dentists is greater than their proportion in the community, statistics released by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service last week show.
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Cornish rescue plan demands 4m savings
Managers have been told to come up with new initiatives to save 4m as a result of health secretary Frank Dobson's decision to save four Cornish community hospitals.
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New ACHCEW director sets out her stall with 'adapt or die' ultimatum
The incoming director of the Association of Community Health Councils for England and Wales has issued an ultimatum to CHCs: adapt or die.