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Potential life saver
Potential life saver: Welsh health minister Win Griffiths meets staff at Tenby ambulance station during a tour of the integrated hospital and ambulance service run by Pembrokeshire and Derwen trust last week. A fierce campaign is being waged to stop the service being absorbed into an all-Wales ambulance trust, if ...
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Where initiative HAZ worked
'At the very least, ministers should examine whether those whose HAZ bids do not succeed could go ahead with some aspects of their proposals while decisions are made about a second wave'
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'Error' fear nurses win more staff
A trust is to improve night staffing levels after nurses warned that they were so overworked they feared making a 'fatal error'.
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Ministers need teeth to stop decay
In the fortnight between the Journal's publication of a draft version of the public health green paper (see News and News Focus, 22 January) and the official launch of Our Healthier Nation last week (see News, page 9), some of the language changed, but little of the substance.
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GPs force HA and trust to drop cuts plan
London GPs have forced a health authority and trust to drop plans to restrict doctors' access to diagnostic services.
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Newham Community Health Services trust
Newham Community Health Services trust planned to go to school this week to discuss health provision for young people. A trust board meeting was to be held at Brampton Manor School in Newham, east London, to hear students' views on services. Trust chair Peter Kenyon said the move was a ...
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Cash on delivery
Despite last week's resignation of the Lottery regulator, and calls for tighter control of the game, the Lottery remains an enticing source of funding. But tapping it is far from simple. Barbara Millar reports
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Part-timers' pension cases go to Europe
Test cases affecting the pensions of thousands of part-time health workers were referred to the European Court of Justice by the House of Lords last week.
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Cambridge clean-up
In Cambridge, health and local authorities are working together to reduce the impact of air pollution on the city centre and to improve the health, quality of life and the environment of those who use it.
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Doubting David's healthy concern for Britain's ills
The paragraph which leapt from the pages of the public health green paper, Our Healthier Nation, was the one which proclaimed 'a third way between the old extremes of individual victim-blaming on the one hand and nanny-state social engineering on the other. Good health is no longer about blame, but ...
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IN BRIEF
Ministers have given the go-ahead for Harefield Hospital trust and the Royal Brompton Hospital trust to merge on 1 April, creating the 'largest cardiothoracic centre in Europe'. Harefield trust chair Sir Geoffrey Errington hailed the decision as a 'major step forward' in the treatment of people with heart and lung ...
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IN BRIEF
Doctors have accused Welsh health authorities of pre-empting consultation on the setting up of local health groups as envisaged by the government's white paper. British Medical Association Welsh council chair Bryn John said he was disturbed that HAs seemed to be making decisions before the legal framework for the groups ...
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'No Labour deadheads' on boards
Health secretary Frank Dobson came under fire last week for not putting enough Labour councillors onto trust boards.
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Board-game losers
Tory attempts to 'expose' wrongdoing in the government's handling of NHS board appointments have fallen flat.
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National Lottery Charities Board membership
Chair: Hon David Sieff, non-executive director, Marks & Spencer
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Models may standardise PFI bidding
A government taskforce called this week for standard models for procuring hospital private finance intiative projects.
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Ministers told to stump up extra cash to 'save' Bart's
The Royal Hospitals trust is lobbying ministers to back their decision to 'save' St Bartholomew's Hospital with extra cash.