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Pressure increases to finance MS drugs
Health authorities could be under pressure to fund Betaferon treatment for thousands more patients - at a cost of millions of pounds - by the end of the year.
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Bad consultants face loss of merit awards
Hospital consultants who fail to meet new quality measures could have their merit awards withdrawn by the Commission for Health Improvement.
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Lighthouse nears rocks as consultation rethinks
Campaigners hoping to save the London Lighthouse HIV/AIDS centre as a health service facility have agreed to co-operate in a new consultation exercise which excludes it as a future provider of residential services.
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Pastures new
Toby Harris's controversial departure from the CHC movement comes at a time of deep uncertainty over its future, writes Patrick Butler
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Something of the fight?
With her appointment as shadow health secretary Ann Widdecombe's rehabilitation is complete.
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Ready for take-off
Comprehensive studies of primary care pilot schemes could provide ministers with justification for their reforms, writes Barbara Millar
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All aboard?
Senior finance managers are increasingly worried about how primary care groups will work. Lyn Whitfield reports on an exclusive HSJ/HFMA survey
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What they say about primary care groups
Mark Millar, finance director, Suffolk health authority
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Tender is the plight
Dudley health authority's move to sell community nursing to the highest bidder ended in resignations and retreat. Pat Healy reports
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Skye's the limit
Airline-style bookings, where patients know the date of their hospital appointments when they leave their GP, is part of a drive to improve electronic communications in the NHS in Scotland. Barbara Millar reports
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How one trust aims to extend its Wheech
Western General Hospital trust in Edinburgh is `'reinventing itself', creating 'one-stop shop' clinics and establishing a patients' council to oversee its progress.
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The NHS according to those who work in it Are alarm bells ringing yet in Richmond House?
Health ministers set great store by what they call evidence-based policy-making. Anxious not to repeat the mistakes of their Conservative predecessors, they make much of their laudable efforts to consult and evaluate: witness, for example, the comprehensive studies of the primary care pilot schemes (see pages 12-13). Not for them ...
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A new look for the millennium The times are changing - and so is HSJ
Renewal is a recurring theme of the late 1990s, spurred by the approach of the millennium. Today, this magazine renews itself in a format we are confident will continue to serve our readers' needs into the 21st century. In its 106-year history HSJ has undergone many metamorphoses. One of the ...
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An end to polls and wheezes
At the 3 July meeting of the NHS Confederation, the Institute of Health Services Management and the International Hospital Federation to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the NHS, a 'leading national figure' will discuss commitment to the new vision of the NHS. Who is this leading national figure? Is it ...
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Dapper Duncan joins Doris at the sharp end
It would be fun but wrong to suggest that the flurry of activity from health ministers in the past few days - all those promised extra doctors and hospital 'death lists' - is attributable to Ann Widdecombe's promotion to the shadow Cabinet in William Hague's reshuffle.
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Skeleton service
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital gave local people a chance to see the NHS in action last weekend. Here, eight-year- old Nicholas Harrington finds out more about plaster casts from technician Mariano Martinez-Tenorio. Nicholas's sister Laura and father David lend a hand with staff nurse Alberta Awotwi.
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Managers fear year of policy confusion as primary care groups are established
Senior finance managers fear the cost and workload involved in setting up primary care groups will lead to problems elsewhere in the NHS, an exclusive survey for HSJ has discovered.