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Purchasers and providers in battle for 'unified' Confederation chair
Senior figures from both sides of the health service's purchaser- provider divide are set to contest next month's election to appoint
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Blair seeks to calm unions' pay fears
Prime minister Tony Blair last week moved to pacify health service unions angry that the independence of the pay review bodies had been undermined by new terms of reference set out in the comprehensive spending review.
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White men skew boards
NHS boards in Greater London are top heavy with white, middle-aged men, says a survey by the Greater London Association of Community Health Councils.
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GPs in minority on new Welsh local health group boards
GPs will be in a minority on local health group boards, Welsh health minister Win Griffiths has told the British Medical Association.
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A breach too far?
Plans to merge two trusts may have to be recalled from the health secretary's office this week and rethought - because the Department of Health appears to be unable to decide on the legal rules covering trust finances.
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Lighthouse wins fight for building
The London Lighthouse charity for people with HIV and AIDS has won its battle to stay in its purpose-built premises in Notting Hill, west London. But its residential services will close at the end of September.
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Complementary care is rising in the health service on a tide of half truths
It appears from your News Focus on 'integrated health care' (page 16, 4 June) that this term is being advanced to cover a concoction of orthodox and complementary medicine.
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Ministers double cash in sop to mental health policy critics
Ministers moved to head off further criticism of their controversial policy of ending care in the community this week by doubling the money on offer to create alternative services.
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Doctors are fatter cats
Top doctors are earning more than chief executives in more than one-third of trusts, according to a survey of annual accounts.
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Price of new doctors may be change in role
Doctors may be forced to cede professional ground to nurses and other groups of staff as part of the price of a 20 per cent expansion in medical student numbers, the government has hinted.
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HA chief executives will be given tough powers to ensure PCGs keep in line
Health authority chief executives are to have tough powers to hold primary care groups to account, according to draft guidance seen by HSJ.
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Local commitment with a global vision
Having been a GP, an NHS manager, and a chair of social services, Liberal Democrat MP Jenny Tonge has a rare perspective across the rugged landscape of health and social care.
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Shutting of community hospitals set to be referred on to Dobson
Plans to close two community hospitals in Oxfordshire will almost certainly end up on health secretary Frank Dobson's desk.
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Concrete issues
Gems or carbuncles? In the second of three articles, Ann Dix reports on the rise and fall of some of the pioneering hospital buildings of the 1960s and 1970s
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Direct enquiries
NHS Direct, the nurse-led 24-hour advice and information helpline, should be available to all within two years. Three pilots were launched in March, and by the end of the year a second wave of pilots will cover 10 million people.
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Omission to explain
Some years ago I changed my GP. I did not offer him an explanation, nor did he ask for one. He did not complain to the local family practitioner committee, nor did he write indignantly to the health service commissioner. I do not imagine for a moment that the GP ...
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Young Lochinvar holds firm in reshuffle outreach
Saturday night was better than Sunday night last weekend. I spent Sunday (lovely weather, so they tell me) in the dark and windowless room I share with eight others in the Palace of Westminster, trying to predict Tony Blair's reshuffle.
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Hansard
The cost of in vitro fertilisation is between 2,000 and 3,000 per cycle according to Department of Health estimates. Public health minister Tessa Jowell said the estimates were based on information supplied by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the National Infertitlity Awareness Campaign.