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Closure plans: why are we waiting?
1991 Consultation on the original plans for two units to replace High Royds and Roundhay wing.
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Word on the wards: 'abysmal' and 'not acceptable'
John Oldham on 140-bed Roundhay wing: 'The conditions there are, in my view, abysmal.'
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Penny for their thoughts
New taxes. No taxes. There was an option for everyone when the four main parties revealed their plans for the Scottish Parliament. Colin Wright reports
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Agreement or impasse? What the future holds
Permanent secretary Clive Gowdy offered three possible timescales for reforming health and social services in Northern Ireland.
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The £500m bill Mr Brown forgot Pension contributions change will cost the price of four new hospitals
The NHS appears to have developed its own variation on Parkinson's law (the one about work expanding to fill the time available). In the case of the health service, unanticipated expenses expand to use up money earmarked for growth and innovation (see news, pages 2-3). Let's call it Brown's law.
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WEB WATCH MARK CRAIL
So who has not yet looked at the National Institute for Clinical Excellence web site? True, much of it is currently taken up with expressions of intent ('Here you will eventually be able to find out about...'), but at least the bare bones seem to be there - which is ...
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Blair offers £280m for walk-in centres
Prime minister Tony Blair has unveiled a £280m package to improve patient access to the NHS.
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New framework is judged 'better than tables'
Managers' leaders this week welcomed the government's promised new NHS performance assessment framework as a 'more useful indication of the quality of patient care than crude league tables'.
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Treasury accused of stalling PFI
The Department of Health has given outline approval for 10 third- wave private finance initiative hospital building schemes amid concerns that an overall review of PFI is being stalled by Treasury interference.
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Breast screening halted in Cumbria
Health service managers were due to hold crisis talks this week after breast screening services in one of England's most sparsely populated counties collapsed.
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Scots MPs say no
Labour has launched its Scottish election campaign with a pledge to build eight new hospitals, including the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, using what Scottish secretary Donald Dewar called a 'public-private partnership' rather than PFI.