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Consultation delay allows time to talk
Widespread objections to service cuts proposed by a health authority facing a projected pounds18m deficit have forced the postponement of public consultation to allow more time for talks with health professionals and local councillors.
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Survey will seek views of 100,000 patients
Details of a major annual opinion survey which will seek to build up a national picture of patients' experience of the NHS have been revealed by health minister Alan Milburn.
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Government to target high-spending trusts in management costs drive
Trusts and health authorities with higher than average management costs will be targeted in the government's latest drive against 'NHS bureaucracy'.
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US-trained doctor's dispute is test case
A US-trained anaesthetist is fighting for consultant status in Britain in a case that could have implications for medical workforce planning.
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IN BRIEF
Scottish health minister Sam Galbraith has announced that a steering group chaired by John Arbuthnott, principal and vice-chancellor of Strathclyde University, is to conduct a 'wide-ranging' review of NHS funding in Scotland. The group will review the 20-year-old SHARE distribution formula to see 'whether the distribution of resources can more ...
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Welsh O f fice jumps gun over trust job adver ts
The Welsh Office has come under fire for advertising top posts in an all-Wales ambulance service trust before the end of public consultation on whether one should be set up.
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Former RHA sold off IT agency 'for a fract ion of its potent ial value'
An NHS information technology agency was sold by the former South and West regional health authority for a fraction of its potential value, MPs have concluded.
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Just rewards?
New year, new NHS Executive head of human resources - and a new pay agenda in the offing. Barbara Millar explores the options for replacing local pay determination in 1998
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BY ALASTAIR MASON Running rings round doctors
For over 20 years, surveys have identified much inappropriate use of NHS resources. Whether it's attendances at accident and emergency departments, emergency admissions, ambulance call-outs or GP out-of-hours calls, the evidence shows that a significant proportion of these patient contacts are not needed to deal with the problems presented. A ...
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High Court rules HA should have consulted over closures
Cash-strapped health authorities contemplating hospital closures would do well to study a recent High Court judgment if they want to avoid having the process derailed.
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'Case of the decade' set to continue until April
The hearing dubbed the General Medical Council's 'case of the decade' must be sending shivers up the spines of health service managers who happen to be doctors.
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Government considers legislative framework for living wills
The government is consulting on proposals for a legislative framework for substitute decision-
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A CONSPICUOUS BUT NOT SIGNIFICANT ABSENCE
Your report on progress made in protecting patient confidentiality on the NHS network (News, page 5, 18 December) implies that there was some significance in my absence from the launch of the Caldicott report.
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RED TAPE MEASURES
If the government is majoring on performance measurement in its new, modern and dependable NHS, how does it intend to measure and demonstrate the removal of pounds1bn from unnecessary bureaucracy over the next four years?
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IT'S FAR WORSE THAN 'SILLY' TO IGNORE OUR MILLENNIUM PROPOSALS...
The antagonistic reaction from University College London Hospitals trust to our alternative proposal for a 'millennium hospital' (News, page 7, 11 December) may be understandable - but it is not rational, and sadly smacks of 'I have made up my mind, don't confuse me with the facts' type of reasoning.
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... BECAUSE KING'S CROSS SITE HAS GOOD TRANSPORT LINKS AND ROOM TO GROW
It was not surprising that the chief executive of the UCH and Middlesex Hospitals trust was upset at the prospect of a rival redevelopment proposal in the form of a 'millennium hospital' on the King's Cross goods yard site. My surprise is that this trust is still pursuing the idea ...
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THE WHITE ELEPHANT: SYMBOL OF THE CHAOS IN LONDON'S HEALTH SERVICES
Your report about the closure of St Bartholomew’s (News, page 5, 27 November) hints at a large hospital at Whitechapel under the private finance initiative. But this 1,000-plus bed project would be utterly blind to the health needs of east London and its development.
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THE NHS WAS WELL SERVED BY ANGELA SEALEY
In the light of the special report form the select committee on public administration relating to North and Mid Hampshire health authority (News, page 4, 4 December), we as members of a women's health authority chairs' network, felt it important to put on public record our views relating to Angela ...