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DoH backs research on homeless people and GPs
The Department of Health is to sponsor research to identify areas where homeless people have persistent trouble getting access to GPs. The initiative forms part of an action programme coming out of the second report of the government's social exclusion unit. It sets a target of reducing the number of ...
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Study finds quicker referral could save lives
GPs could have prevented one death in 20 by quicker referral, diagnosis and treatment or by prescribing aspirin to patients with vascular disease, a study has concluded.
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Manchester ambulances booked via Internet
Greater Manchester Ambulance Service trust has become the first in the country to allow GPs to book non-emergency ambulances using NHSNet. The pilot scheme, which runs until October, is aimed at simplifying what the trust admits is a 'complicated and time consuming' system 'involving many telephone calls, booking forms and ...
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Neuroscience trust moves to purpose-built home
Britain's only integrated neuroscience trust moves into a new £22m building this weekend. Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery is moving from Walton Hospital in Liverpool, where it has been since 1947, to purpose-built accommodation next to Fazakerley Hospital.
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Cancer framework 'fails to deliver equal access'
The cancer framework now being used as a model for national standards in other services is failing to deliver equal access to care, according to the MP who chairs the Commons all-party group on cancer.
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Ashworth set to join mainstream mental health service in wake of chief executive's departure
Ashworth special hospital is to be integrated further into mainstream NHS mental health services following the surprise departure last week of chief executive Hilary Hodge.
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What a gas
Consultant anaesthetist Jake Alderson displays part of his collection of medical devices, which includes a child's iron lung from the 1950s and equipment used in the UK's first heart bypass surgery. Dr Alderson, who works at Northern General Hospital in Sheffield, hopes to open the first museum dedicated to anaesthesia.
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Liverpool GP wins top BMA post
Liverpool GP Ian Bogle has been elected chair of the British Medical Association's council, succeeding Sir Alexander Macara who stood down last week.
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Trusts charge patients 'exorbitant' prices for medical record access
Trusts and GPs are imposing 'exorbitant' charges on patients seeking access to their medical records, according to a survey of 95 community health councils.
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on the record
MIKE FOGDEN is chair of the National Blood Authority. He was previously chief executive of the employment service. He began his civil service career in 1958 at the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, which became the Department of Health and Social Security, after national service in the RAF.
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Board games
Three managers named in a report alleging financial mismanagement at a health board have left, while the fourth faces a disciplinary hearing. Matthew Limb reports
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Labour pains
This year, the British Medical Association's annual representative meeting follows 14 months of Labour government. But the doctors' leaders don't seem very happy. Lyn Whitfield reports
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Labour's first year: not what the doctors ordered
Laurence Buckman, GP negotiator 'They have promised much and done little. You do not build policy in a vacuum - you start from where people are - so it is not surprising a lot of their ideas have built on Conservative policy. But at times it has been difficult to ...
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Senior managers broke NHS pay rules
Senior health service managers repeatedly broke NHS pay regulations to award themselves and colleagues thousands of pounds to which they were not entitled, an inquiry has found.
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Troubled trust chief is suspended
The chief executive of Central Scotland Healthcare trust has been suspended on full pay pending an independent inquiry into allegations of overpayments to a small group of senior managers.
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Hospital board 'misled' on deficit
NA senior finance manager at a London teaching hospital has been suspended after auditors found the trust board had been 'misled' over the scale of its deficit.
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Dobson weighs up £21bn cash boost
Health secretary Frank Dobson will announce today how the NHS is going to spend chancellor Gordon Brown's unprecedented £21bn give-away.
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Generous to a fault? What the experts say
King's Fund economists Sean Boyle and Anthony Harrison said: 'An extra £18bn in England over the next three years will bring total spending in the NHS to £46bn by March 2002.
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Invoking the past to help deliver all our tomorrows
So was it all worth it? For three short days the health service's 50th birthday extravaganza at Earl's Court commanded the presence of the great and good, as well as some high-ranking international guests and plenty of media attention. But in the process it almost bankrupted the NHS Confederation. Initial ...
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in brief
A small number of trusts have decided to give board-level directors no pay rise so that less senior managers can enjoy increases above the 2.7 per cent limit set by the Department of Health. A Pay and Workforce Research survey found three out of 50 trusts interpreting the pay ceiling ...