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Cash for online booking trials
The Department of Health has allocated 5m to piloting an online hospital appointment booking system for GPs in England and Wales. The aim is for patients to know their appointment date before they leave the GP surgery.
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Suppliers to NHS Direct's telephone triage pilot likely to win many of its second-wave contracts
The 35m worth of contracts announced this month for the second wave of the NHS Direct telephone helpline are likely to go to many of the suppliers who provided the initial pilot telephone triage systems.
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In brief
Guidelines for setting up primary care groups contain virtually no recommendations on information technology solutions, or money to build them, according to GP computing experts.'There is not and will not be an IT solution or detailed specifications for primary care groups,' said a regional GP computer adviser. Part of the ...
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Dobson launches new HAZs with 15m cash
A second wave of health action zones has been given the go-ahead by health secretary Frank Dobson.
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Milburn announces move to clean up merit awards system for top doctors
Campaigners want to see a revamped merit award system for senior doctors which would place greater emphasis on discretionary awards at local level.
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Test scandal trust 'unduly litigious'
A hospital facing legal action by 89 women affected by a cervical smear test scandal has been accused of being 'unduly litigious' in settling some cases.
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Calls to put managers on to staff pay system
Health service unions and managers' groups this week joined forces to call for the inclusion of senior managers in a new pay determination system covering all NHS staff.
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Work assaults dog health staff
Healthcare staff are four times more likely to suffer violent assault than workers in general, a study has found.
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Cash for HIV prevention 'misses gay men'
Money allocated for HIV prevention work among the groups most at risk is being diverted to other uses, according to two surveys from the National Aids Trust.
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'No confidence' vote over two ward closures
Staff at Llandough Hospital in South Wales have passed a unanimous vote of no confidence in its managers after a decision to close two wards.
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Nurse recruitment hits an all-time low
Managers' leaders have expressed alarm about two sets of figures showing that the NHS is facing a nursing recruitment crisis.
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Chief's big pay-off sparks union anger
Unions have reacted angrily to a 100,000 pay-off for chief executive John Daley, who left Dudley Priority Health trust earlier this year after a controversial tendering exercise collapsed.
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Nurses in court for back wages
A union has launched High Court action on behalf of nurses to recoup more than 1m in back pay. Unison claims that 63 nurses were denied a right of appeal on their regrading when they were employed 10 years ago by the former North Derbyshire district health authority.
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Pledged change to mental health law held up until general election
Plans to overhaul the 1983 Mental Health Act may not be realised until after the next general election, key mental health groups say.
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700,000 bill for test scare
A Welsh hospital in a cervical cancer scare faces a potential damages bill of at least 700,000 from affected women and their families.
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Codes of conduct
Will the public accounts committee's damning report on the Read codes project wreck the NHS's forthcoming information technology strategy, asks Peter Mitchell
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Wait and 'C'
Should an ambulance with paramedics attend every 999 call? Patrick Butler reports from the Ambulance Service Association's conference
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Home removal services
As community care reforms continue to depress the market in private residential care and small homes are lost, how will services meet all elderly people's needs?
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Sure thing
Several Midlands community schemes to help poor families are potential models for the government's pre-school Sure Start scheme. Pat Healy examines their impact