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The Glasgow plans
One north Glasgow acute trust covering Glasgow Royal Infirmary, West Glasgow Hospital, Stobhill Hospital, and Glasgow Dental Hospital and School.
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Doctors' orders
Family doctors have regrouped into new professional organisations to meet the challenge of primary care groups. Lyn Whitfield examines their differences
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How other departments fare
On top of the boost for health service funding, the NHS will be hoping public health benefits will stem indirectly from other initiatives announced in the comprehensive spending review.
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An internal war smoulders on for the soul of commissioning
Despite the end of fundholding, old enmities continue
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Ministers claim reform schedule is 'realistic'
Ministers this week outlined what they called a 'demanding' but 'realistic' timetable for implementing the next stages of their health service reforms.
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Reality cheque
So pounds21bn sounds like a lot of money, but how much of it is really headed your way?
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Social services checks find one in four 'failing'
A quarter of the social services departments scrutinised by the Audit Commission and Social Services Inspectorate are failing and show little prospect of improving, says a report published this week.
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in brief
The Lord Chancellor's Department is expected to launch a code of practice today aimed at cutting the time and cost involved in clinical negligence cases. The pre-action protocol has been drawn up by Clinical Disputes Forum, which represents lawyers, doctors and victims of medical accidents.
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Sceptical MPs damp down cash boost euphoria
The government's triumphant multi-billion pound boost for the NHS was left tarnished this week by MPs' allegations that it put a 'misleading' gloss on the real pounds8.8bn increase over three years by double and triple counting.
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Spending review bonanza set to 'transform' scope of PFI projects
Millions of pounds of public capital poured into the NHS as a result of last week's comprehensive spending review announcement will 'transform' the scope of private finance initiative projects, MPs have been told.
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Scottish boards' trust shake-ups challenge white paper pattern
Health boards serving Scotland's two biggest cities are to press ahead with trust reconfiguration plans which run counter to the model set out in the government's Designed to Care white paper.
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Bliss was it in that dawn as Santa Brown dealt the dosh
So difficult to get the tone right on these occasions, isn't it?' the Queen once remarked as her then prime minister explained away a sterling crisis to sceptical voters on TV. Watching MPs struggling with their response to Frank Dobson after he had done his Big Spender's lap of honour ...
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Gordon Brown's billions fall into perspective
Realism returns after initial excitement over the chancellor's pounds21bn
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NHS Confederation and IHSM should look at their own democratic legitimacy before criticising CHCs
I read with interest your story about the report on the future of community health councils (News, page 7, 2 July). It was indeed refreshing to be lectured on openness and accountability by the NHS Confederation and the Institute of Health Services Management.
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National Audit Office report shows trusts miss their financial targets
Four trusts missed all three financial targets last year, the National Audit Office has revealed.
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CHCs have a vital role in the future, but need to be revitalised - and appropriate funding made available
Your news article had a very strongly and rather negatively worded headline. It certainly caught the eye, but I do think that to use the word 'damning' was unnecessary.
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Donaldson appointed chief medical officer
Northern and Yorkshire regional director Professor Liam Donaldson is to take over as chief medical officer for England on a top-ranking civil service salary worth up to pounds164,000 a year.
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Costs warning as rise of superbug threatens to defeat antibiotics
Hospital infections caused by MRSA 'superbugs' have leapt by 50 per cent in just one year, unpublished Public Health Laboratory Service figures show.
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Angry GPs' leaders divide along fundholding faultline in debate over future direction of PCGs
GP leaders from across the old fundholding divide have clashed over the future direction of primary care groups.