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IN BRIEF
Unison this week launched a campaign to encourage nurses in Scotland to stand for the Scottish and Westminster parliaments, health and trust boards and for local councils. Aiming for 200 nurses in 'positions of power' by 2000, Unison said nurses would be the biggest single group of staff working for ...
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Betaferon results herald renewed funding warning
Clinicians sounded a fresh warning this week over NHS funding constraints after claims that drugs to treat multiple sclerosis could benefit twice as many patients as first thought.
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Exchange of views
Exchange of views: Ararat Mkrtichian (centre), minister of health for the Republic of Armenia, discusses health with Barrie Fisher, chief executive of North Yorkshire health authority, and HA vice-chair Tony Culyer (reflected in the mirror). Mr Mkrtichian and Susanna Hayrapetian, head of the World Bank project co-ordination unit, visited the ...
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Welsh waiting lists rise by a third
The number of patients waiting for treatment at Welsh hospitals has risen by more than a third in a year.
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On the record
TESSA BROOKS became director of the NHS Executive's newly created chief executive development programme last year. She joined the NHS from university and went on to work for the King's Fund in the late 1980s, where she set up its organisational audit programme.
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Ministers have given the go-ahead for Harefield Hospital trust and the Royal Brompton Hospital trust to merge on 1 April, creating the 'largest cardiothoracic centre in Europe'. Harefield trust chair Sir Geoffrey Errington hailed the decision as a 'major step forward' in the treatment of people with heart and lung ...
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Ministers told to stump up extra cash to 'save' Bart's
The Royal Hospitals trust is lobbying ministers to back their decision to 'save' St Bartholomew's Hospital with extra cash.
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'Error' fear nurses win more staff
A trust is to improve night staffing levels after nurses warned that they were so overworked they feared making a 'fatal error'.
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London's turning
Bart's may be 'saved', but the capital's health services are revealed to be still in a state of dangerous disarray.
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Sense of authority
In the first of this week's two-part look at NHS board appointments, Pat Healy reports on the influx of councillors with social services backgrounds
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Board-game losers
Tory attempts to 'expose' wrongdoing in the government's handling of NHS board appointments have fallen flat.
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Something in the air
Noxious car exhaust fumes and diesel smoke are costing the country pounds11bn a year through ill-health and early deaths, according to a report published by the British Lung Foundation this week.
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Cambridge clean-up
In Cambridge, health and local authorities are working together to reduce the impact of air pollution on the city centre and to improve the health, quality of life and the environment of those who use it.
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Ashes to ashes
There is a long way to go yet before the EU ban on tobacco advertising becomes a reality. Tony Sheldon reports on the hurdles it still has to jump
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Where initiative HAZ worked
'At the very least, ministers should examine whether those whose HAZ bids do not succeed could go ahead with some aspects of their proposals while decisions are made about a second wave'
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Ministers need teeth to stop decay
In the fortnight between the Journal's publication of a draft version of the public health green paper (see News and News Focus, 22 January) and the official launch of Our Healthier Nation last week (see News, page 9), some of the language changed, but little of the substance.
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More ambitious public health agenda for Scotland
Ministers in Scotland have opted to set a wider range of national targets than England's in the battle to improve public health.