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Bishop makes his mark
What the public said to the bishop and the peer was that they wanted an alternative to the health authority's plans. Pat Healy reports
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Why locality hospitals should be retained as part of a bigger system
Letters: New models for small hospitals
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Forces health chief quits before review
The armed forces healthcare agency is to lose its chief executive early next month - shortly before the findings of a radical review of military hospitals are made public.
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Banner headlines
Donna Harcourt, a pupil at Bishopsgate School, Stockton-on-Tees, puts the finishing touches to one of 50 banners on the theme 'health for life' which will hang in the corridors of North Tees General Hospital.
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Balancing the boardrooms: rules could still be tighter
comment: The NHS is too precious to belong to just one party or government
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Short Cuts: HSJ journalist scoops writer of the year award
The Medical Journalists' Association has named HSJ special correspondent Barbara Millar as its specialist feature writer of the year. She won the award for an investigation of freemasonry in the NHS ('Hear, see, be silent', 8 February 1996). HSJ deputy editor Mark Crail took second place in the specialist news ...
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Short Cuts: Hunt fails in bid for Welsh Assembly health body
Former NHS Confederation chief executive Lord Hunt called unsuccessfully last week for a statutory body to speak on behalf of the health service to the Welsh Assembly. Speaking during the House of Lords committee stage of the Government of Wales Bill, he said a health advisory council consisting of NHS ...
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Short Cuts: Irvine urges tough line over assaults on staff
The Lord Chancellor has urged magistrates to get tough on offenders who attack health workers. Sentences should 'act as a deterrent', he told a magistrates' conference last week.
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'Free NHS is an anachronism'
The first moves to map out a radical right-wing agenda for healthcare beyond the Conservative election defeat emerged this week as the Social Market Foundation condemned the principle of a free NHS as an 'anachronism'.
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Bill aims to halt community hospital closures
A cheeky private bill introduced recently aims to make it all but impossible to close community hospitals, reflecting the continuing domination of this topic in parliamentary health debates.
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Scotland ahead in fight to beat IT bug
More than 80 per cent of NHS computer systems in Scotland will be free of the millennium bug by the end of March 1999, with work to 'firm up' compliance among stragglers being carried out during the rest of the year, MPs have been told.
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Human resources strategy sets targets to cut attacks against staff
Health service managers are to be set targets for cutting levels of staff sickness and violence against staff. And they will be expected to deliver 'measurable improvements' in occupational health.