All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-08-17
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Generics price rise hits NHS for £200m
The full cost to the NHS of last year's jump in generic drug prices has been revealed as £200m.
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News: Dental action plan
Scotland has decided to spend part of its share of the additional money raised by increased tobacco taxes on a three-year programme to provide free toothbrushes and toothpaste for infants in deprived areas. The initiative is part of a dental action plan announced this week. One target is that 60 ...
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West Surrey HA ads were not misleading
The Advertising Standards Authority has dismissed a complaint about West Surrey health authority and Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals trust by MP David Wilshire.The MP complained that the advertisements about the future of emergency services at Ashford Hospital were misleading.The ASA concluded they were not.HA chief executive Jenny Griffiths said ...
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Race equality advisers appointed in Wales
Two race equality advisers are to work within the NHS in Wales. Michael Banner and Dee Hines-Johnson are being employed by Bro Taf health authority in posts funded by the Welsh Assembly for two years. Mr Banner has worked on race and equality issues for 12 years. Ms Hines-Johnson has ...
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Backlog of tests after donor plea
A family's appeal for a bone marrow donor has left the National Blood Authority struggling with a backlog of 3,000 unchecked blood samples.
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NHS plan faces race allegation
A doctors' leader has referred the NHS plan to the Commission for Racial Equality on the grounds that it may discriminate against ethnic, singlehanded GPs.
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New ambulance trust chief needs Ken's capital ideas
Extra funding alone will not cure emergency service's many ills
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Boroughs' bid to go to Lords over appeal court ruling
Four local authorities are applying for leave to appeal to the House of Lords after failing to overturn a High Court decision that four people sectioned under the 1983 Mental Health Act were not required to pay for specialist accommodation after they were discharged from hospital. The Appeal Court ruled ...
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Counter argument
The NHS plan proposes a much wider role for community pharmacies - and this is long overdue, says Nick Bosanquet
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Special hospital to become part of county-wide trust
Ministers have approved proposals to bring Rampton special hospital into a county-wide NHS trust from next April. Nottinghamshire Healthcare trust will bring together Rampton, Central Nottinghamshire Healthcare trust, Nottingham Healthcare trust and some services from Bassetlaw Hospital and Community Services trust and Rotherham Priority Health Services trust.
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MP demands public probe into drinking water over fear of cancer/chlorine link nking water over
The government is being urged to launch a public health probe into possible links between chlorinated tap water, cancer and problems in pregnancy.
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Scots Conservatives won't push private care
The Scottish Conservative Party is likely to take a softer line on expanding the private healthcare sector than its English counterpart.
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Shipman case sparks monitoring of GPs
Dumfries and Galloway health board has decided to monitor GP death rates in the wake of the Harold Shipman case, in a move opposed by GP leaders.
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It's US cash on delivery for the mother superior
August is the silly season, so we should not panic about the decline of seriousness when the papers, broadsheet as well as tabloid, over-react to William Hague's 14 teenage pints or to Madonna's strictures on British gynaecology.
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SNP challenges Executive over transfer of equipment funding
The Scottish National Party has accused the Scottish Executive of colluding with NHS trusts over the transfer of money meant for capital purchases into debt reduction.