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Dobson weighs up £21bn cash boost
Health secretary Frank Dobson will announce today how the NHS is going to spend chancellor Gordon Brown's unprecedented £21bn give-away.
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16 July 1948
The King's Fund's future was raised at its annual genera l meeting by its president, the Duke of Gloucester.
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Party time
Party time: health secretary Frank Dobson and the 'first NHS patient' Sylvia Diggory returned to Trafford General Hospital, where Aneurin Bevan launched the health service in 1948, to celebrate its 50th anniversary on Sunday (main picture). Meanwhile (from top), June Catterall (nee Salisbury), the first baby born into the NHS ...
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Puzzling it out
When Tony Blair last addressed the annual conference of what was then the National Association of Health Authorities and Trusts, he said Labour would dismantle the internal market. He also pledged to avoid 'major upheaval'.
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Jarrold urges IHSM probe
The time has come for a fundamental review of the Institute of Health Services Management, former president Ken Jarrold told its annual general meeting.
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Sefton - initial hostility
There was initial hostility in Sefton to the whole idea of primary care groups. The local medical committee balloted its members, achieving a 61 per cent response rate, and found that 72 per cent were against the new organisations.
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Together we can share responsibility for mental health
To allow mental health services to be 'single parents', as Matt Muijen recommends (Community Spirit, 21 May), is to condemn service users to a continuation of the nightmare that is much of current mental health provision in the inner city: disconnected services, dispirited staff and a blame culture in the ...
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A handle on harassment
The government is about to launch a campaign against racial harassment to ensure consistent handling of the issue throughout the health service, including by independent contractors.
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Something small but perfectly formed
My companion toyed with his chargrilled ciabatta and gazed abstractedly out over Islington High Street.
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Is the health service flawed or do HSJ readers enjoy self-flagellation?
In your 18 June issue, the first 12 stories carried the words 'victim', 'threat', 'attacks', 'doubts', 'revolt', 'marred', 'crisis', 'threatens', 'bad', 'pressure', 'rocks' and 'bully-boy'.
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Enfield and Haringey - geographical obstacles
Enfield and Haringey is an area that illustrates some of the geographical obstacles to setting primary care group boundaries. Ron Singer, chair of Enfield and Haringey commissioning executive, told a recent 'pan-London' conference that after 'meetings, meetings, meetings' the health authority produced an options document that included proposals for five ...
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Recruitment dive
Promises outlined by health secretary Frank Dobson for the next 50 years would not materialise unless the acute nursing recruitment and retention crisis was halted, Royal College of Nursing general secretary, Christine Hancock warned.
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Hospital death rates
How useful are clinical performance measures? And will they prevent such tragedies as the Bristol baby deaths case? John Appleby reports
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Scottish trusts make 'unnecessary use of locum medical cover' as costs double
Poor management is to blame for the high cost of locum medical cover, a report by the Accounts Commission for Scotland says.
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Going first class with the NHS
When The New NHS white paper was published six months ago, its focus on quality surprised many people. But while it made all the right noises, it also skilfully left much unsaid. The specifics would, we were told, be set out in a consultation paper.