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Blair said little about a healthier society
Your report of my comments on Tony Blair's speech at the NHS 50th anniversary conference (page 10, 9 July) was not correct.
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Two issues for 2000
Medical device companies are not collectively refusing to sign the NHS Supplies Year 2000 deed (News, page 7, 2 July). The Association of British Health-Care Industries has advised its members that an alternative declaration should be submitted.
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Lighthouse will stay at home in pounds2m rescue package deal
The London Lighthouse HIV and AIDS charity appears to have won its battle to stay in its purpose built premises - but its residential services are still set to close.
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on the record
MIKE FOGDEN is chair of the National Blood Authority. He was previously chief executive of the employment service. He began his civil service career in 1958 at the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, which became the Department of Health and Social Security, after national service in the RAF.
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The price is right
The quest to cut the NHS drugs bill has met with spectacular success in the elderly care department of one acute hospital. David Griffith and Mark Robinson explain how
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Labour pains
This year, the British Medical Association's annual representative meeting follows 14 months of Labour government. But the doctors' leaders don't seem very happy. Lyn Whitfield reports
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Neuroscience trust moves to purpose-built home
Britain's only integrated neuroscience trust moves into a new £22m building this weekend. Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery is moving from Walton Hospital in Liverpool, where it has been since 1947, to purpose-built accommodation next to Fazakerley Hospital.
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MP tries to halt Lighthouse sale
Liberal Democrat health spokesman Simon Hughes is to press the two NHS London regions to stop the London Lighthouse centre for people with HIV and AIDS from being sold in September.
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The great pretenders
Anyone can claim to be a paramedic, but steps are being taken to freeze out the fraudsters who blight the profession. Patrick Butler reports
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What a gas
Consultant anaesthetist Jake Alderson displays part of his collection of medical devices, which includes a child's iron lung from the 1950s and equipment used in the UK's first heart bypass surgery. Dr Alderson, who works at Northern General Hospital in Sheffield, hopes to open the first museum dedicated to anaesthesia.
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NICE work if you can fund it
Details of the government's quality drive are emerging, but managers are concerned at the lack of funding for the new initiatives and worried that they may be lost among other demands. Pat Healy reports
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Level-headed Milburn won't forget his friends
What does a minister do when he opens the Sunday newspapers and unexpectedly finds himself tipped for greatness: promotion to the Cabinet as chief secretary to the Treasury, the legendary 'Abominable No-Man', no less? It happened to Alan Milburn two weekends ago.
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Study finds quicker referral could save lives
GPs could have prevented one death in 20 by quicker referral, diagnosis and treatment or by prescribing aspirin to patients with vascular disease, a study has concluded.
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Listless feeling
The NHS has been told to pilot booking systems to replace waiting lists. Ruth Kipping visited New Zealand, where the change is being attempted nationwide
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Generous to a fault? What the experts say
King's Fund economists Sean Boyle and Anthony Harrison said: 'An extra £18bn in England over the next three years will bring total spending in the NHS to £46bn by March 2002.
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Siemens dumps system
Siemens Healthcare Services has dumped the OpenPAS patient administration system inherited from its takeover of ICL in 1996.