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Something to celebrate
Those receiving awards in the Queen's birthday honours included many working in healthcare. The following were among them
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In brief: Alan Milburn
Health secretary Alan Milburn has announced a £54.5m investment in primary care groups and primary care trusts. PCTs and PCGs will be required to draw up primary care investment plans showing how they plan to spend the money, which will be allocated via health authorities.
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In brief: Special assistance funding
The government has allocated £33m 'special assistance funding' to modernise 17 health authorities in England. Factors taken into account in deciding which HAs received funds included the viability of the programme for change and the implications for patient care if the bid were turned down.
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In brief: National Schizophrenia Fellowship
The National Schizophrenia Fellowship has called on the government to give a cash injection to meet policy commitments on carers. It says that at least £150m would be needed to meet basic requirements, including one week's respite break each year, a basic information and support package for new carers and ...
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In brief: Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs has called for 'a radical curtailment of methadone-related deaths' as a priority in cutting the number of drugs-related deaths.
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In brief: North Lakeland Healthcare trust
Our story about North Lakeland Healthcare trust (page 5, 18 May) incorrectly stated that Bill McNulty was the trust's medical director and had been absent from the hospital since late last year. Mr McNulty was director of mental health for the trust and left in March this year. He was ...
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Generics price cap is up by 500%
The government has increased proposed maximum prices for generic drugs by up to 500 per cent after the UK's biggest manufacturer threatened to stop production.
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Asylum seeker influx strains GP workload
A deal struck between the Home Office and a private company has left Leicestershire health authority struggling to provide back-up to GPs facing 'a huge additional workload' when 430 asylum seekers move into a city hotel.
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Merger off the cards in 'spineless' U-turn
Ministers have ruled out a planned merger between Ashworth Special Hospital and a Salford trust, in a Uturn which has been condemned as 'spineless'.
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Damning report on in-fighting leads to radical shake-up at trust
Ministers have ordered a radical shakeup of services at Surrey and Sussex trust following a damming report on factionalism and in-fighting in the area.
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NHS Confederation to appoint new chair at AGM
Dianne Jeffrey will become chair of the NHS Confederation at its annual general meeting tomorrow, taking over from Catherine McLoughlan who has steered the organisation through considerable changes over the past three years. Ms Jeffrey is chair of Community Health Care (North Derbyshire) trust, chairs the confederation's policy advisory group ...
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NICE refuses to meet multiple sclerosis sufferers
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence has responded angrily to a leak of its recommendation that beta interferon should not be prescribed on the NHS. It will now be reviewing its appraisal process with stakeholders. The Multiple Sclerosis Society challenged NICE to allow a group of patients to address it. ...
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Record number of practitioners struck off register
Almost 100 people were struck off the UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting register, according to provisional figures for the year to the end of March. In total, 96 practitioners were removed, equalling the 1996-97 figure. The number of complaints received by the UKCC also reached record ...
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Rise in emergency calls to ambulance services
Emergency calls to England's ambulance services rose by 7 per cent last year, from 3.8 million to 4.1 million, according to figures released by the Department of Health. Almost 1 million of these came from London. The figures show that of the 20 services that have introduced call prioritisation, Staffordshire ...
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Network calls for overhaul of emergency care
A collection of 16 essays published by the New Health Network has called for a radical overhaul of emergency care. Co-editor Dr Tom Coffey said every point of entry to the NHS - the ambulance service, social services, general practice and accident and emergency units - was fraught with delay, ...
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GPs to receive £6.45 for every flu jab administered
Health minister John Denham has concluded negotiations with the British Medical Association over payments for flu immunisations this year. GPs will receive a special payment of £6.45 for every jab administered to a patient over 65, as well as the normal £1.65 fee.
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Speedy end for NI fundholding
Northern Ireland has begun the process of dismantling GP fundholding, prompting hopes that its new system will be superior to England's primary care groups.
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Radiology department loses consultant on eve of report
A consultant at the centre of an investigation into a leading radiology department is to leave his post as clinical director.
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Cash-strapped trust wants GPs to cut referrals by 15 per cent
Tayside University Hospitals trust has announced a plan to reduce its £12m deficit over two years.
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Special adviser to toil not spin
Scottish health minister Susan Deacon has appointed Dr Colin Currie as a special adviser.