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Hold on to your seats until the money's been counted
We've had the commemorative 50p piece; will we have the commemorative pounds 10bn extra by the end of the week? The eyes of the NHS - indeed, of the nation - will be fixed intently on the conference podium at Earl's Court on Thursday at 9.25am. This could be a ...
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Beholden to Bevan
'The new health service has been having a most uneasy gestation and a very turbulent birth, but all prodigies behave like that... We shall never have all we need. Expectation will always exceed capacity ... the service must always be changing, growing and improving; it must always appear inadequate.'
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Targets will boost women chairs and non-execs
Health authorities and trusts can expect an influx of new women chairs and non-executive directors as ministers fall into line with the cross-government targets launched this week.
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in brief
Nine out of 10 NHS organisations are making satisfactory progress in dealing with the year 2000 computer bug, NHS chief executive Sir Alan Langlands claimed this week. He said an NHS Executive survey 'reveals the NHS is much further on in responding to this problem than recent reports by the ...
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Policy ini tiatives stir NHS cash hopes
Health secretary Frank Dobson claimed this week that waiting lists had started to fall, as ministers launched a flurry of policy initiatives in the run-up to the NHS's 50th anniversary on Sunday.
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Forces hospital is set for closure
One of Britain's two remaining military hospitals will close at the end of the financial year.
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'No commitment' is not the final word
As you reported (News Focus, page 14, 25 June), in a meeting with 10 leading mental health organisations on 11 June, junior health minister Paul Boateng indicated there was no government commitment to reviewing the Mental Health Act 1983.
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Government should define core services, say LibDems
Central government should take the lead in defining a 'core' set of NHS services, with local authorities able to offer extras from within their own budgets, Liberal Democrat health spokesman Simon Hughes said this week.
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Law Lords overturn illegal detention ruling
Managers and patient groups have welcomed a Law Lords ruling which will mean thousands of people detained under the 1983 Mental Health Act can be treated as voluntary patients again.
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Scotland's NHS to be different to England's
Plans to overhaul Scottish hospitals will leave the country with a very different health service to that in England, Scottish health minister Sam Galbraith said this week.
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Health economists in glass houses...
As a consultant recently converted to a manager in the NHS, I read with interest Alan Maynard's continued attack on the medical profession (Looking Askance, 11 June). As an economist who clearly knows value for money, he should see the best way to avoid the personal greed of consultants and ...
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Thunder and enlightening
Primary care groups were the focus of GPs' anger at the local medical committees conference. Mark Gould reports
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GPs lead race to succeed Sandy
Three GPs are in the running to lead the British Medical Association when Sir Alexander Macara steps down as chair of its governing council today after five years in the post.
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Heretic
A friend told me recently that Heretic was written by Leicester Royal Infirmary trust chief executive Peter Homa. I was flattered, given the impressive results of the pioneering business process re-engineering initiative he drove at LRI. But that mould-breaking effort's multi-million pound price-tag has deterred other trusts from challenging traditional ...
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Homa on the range
Asked what qualities his colleagues would ascribe to him, Peter Homa offers: 'Supportive, focused, results-driven - with a sense of humour.'
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Whatever the words, relationships are important in reorganisations
As Lorne Williamson surmises (Open Space, 18 June), reorganisations will continue to have an impact on the NHS for the foreseeable future. He also expresses concerns about the process of change within the service and its effect on staff and clinical services.