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All-party group will promote primary care and public health
A 30-strong parliamentary group led by two GPs and a former NHS manager has been set up to promote the interests of primary care and public health.
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Milburn gets new 'eyes and ears'
Salford people are blessed with 'courage, determination, wit and compassion, and... an unrivalled ability to see through falseness and to expose insincerity', said the city's Labour MP, Hazel Blears, in her maiden speech last May.
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Jowell ministers to European agenda
Public health minister Tessa Jowell has outlined plans for taking forward Europe-wide public health issues as part of the UK's six-month presidency of the European Union.
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Sing le-trust consultation process condemned by CHCs
Critics of plans to create a single ambulance trust in Wales have issued a declaration of no confidence in the consultation process, which ended this week.
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Ambulance forum tackles year 2000 problem
An Ambulance Service forum is being established to tackle the year 2000 IT problem, which one chief executive has estimated could cost pounds1m per trust to solve.
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350 complaints a day under new procedure
The NHS is receiving more than 350 written complaints a day, government statistics have shown.
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Shadow over Bart's as London review prepares to report findings to Dobson
Health secretary Frank Dobson has taken charge of the outcome of the London review, now expected to be published in the next couple of weeks.
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Getting physical:
Getting physical: Aberdare GP Shesh Sahai leads by example with a work-out on a rowing machine. He was among doctors from across south Wales who took part in an 'Are You Fit for Work?' event last week held at a Cardiff fitness centre. Its aim was to encourage doctors to ...
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Board recommends merger of three of region's ambulance services
A project board to consider the future of ambulance services in Trent has recommended that three of the region's five ambulance trusts should merge.
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Unions are united against attempt to phase pay rises
Health unions this week presented a united front against rumours that the government may phase this year's pay awards to keep public spending within limits set by the previous Conservative government.
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Frank Dobson
One of health secretary Frank Dobson's special advisers has been involved in developing computer systems that will help ministers manage news more effectively. According to press reports, Joe McCrae has been working on a Department of Health system which analyses government activity constituency by constituency. It should allow Mr Dobson ...
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Trust inquiry into attack on two women
Three London trusts have set up an investigation into the care of an 18-year-old man who allegedly attacked two middle-aged women last week.
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Bristol doctors fail to get charges dropped
Three doctors accused of misconduct over the high infant mortality rate at Bristol Royal Infirmary last week lost an eight-day legal battle to have the charges against them thrown out on the basis that they had no case to answer.
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HA's pounds4.3m cuts will tackle pounds7.2m debt
A health authority has agreed a pounds4.3m package of cuts to tackle a pounds7.2m deficit next year. South Essex HA hopes the remaining pounds2.9m deficit can be closed through further efficiency savings.
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Send in the hit squad
Send in the hit squad: health minister Alan Milburn launches a consultation document on a performance framework for the NHS at an Adam Smith Institute seminar. Last Wednesday's seminar on raising standards in healthcare was one of a series of events organised by the right-wing think-tank on 'achieving Labour's aims'. ...
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Nurses' fears for patient safet y - inquiry ordered
Hospital managers have launched an inquiry after nurses claimed they were so overworked that patient safety was at risk.