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In Brief: Complaints about changes to the dentists' fee scale
Tony Kravitz, chair of the British Dental Association's general dental services committee, has complained to the Department of Health about the way changes to the dentists' fee scale were introduced earlier this year. Mr Kravitz said the GDSC was not given time to take expert advice before commenting on the ...
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In Brief: Number of registered nursing homes rise
The number of registered nursing homes in England rose by 4 per cent last year to 5,560, according to figures from the Department of Health. But the percentage of beds occupied fell from 81 per cent to 79 per cent.
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In Brief: Help for GP recruitment and retention problems in Wales
The Welsh Office has agreed a £500,000 programme of educational support and development opportunities for GPs with the department of postgraduate education for general practice at the University of Wales college of medicine. Welsh health minister Win Griffiths said he was 'confident' it would help with GP recruitment and retention ...
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Sackings spark attack on Management Executive
The dramatic sacking last week of four non-executive directors of Tayside health board has led to scathing criticism of the NHS Management Executive in Scotland.
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Best value test for tendering
Competitive tendering is likely to remain in the NHS but could be influenced by the 'best-value' schemes operating in local authorities, NHS chief executive Alan Langlands said last week.
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Screen performance
Some health authorities are failing to meet their cervical screening targets. MarkCrail reports on the best and worst
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Who's sorry now?
If Frank Dobson went down badly at the RCN congress, his Tory counterpart did even worse. Lyn Whitfield reports
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Let the people come
The long-term care royal commission roadshow is on its way, giving commissioners valuable insight into the public's views on service reorganisation. Barbara Millar reports
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Make the young pay for the old
Thinking the unthinkable is a New Labour buzz phrase, particularly in relation to the welfare state and its flagship, the NHS. But how unthinkable? How courageous are our politicians prepared to be in formulating policy? How much imagination will managers be allowed to show, and health professionals and patients be ...
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One-time Trot who became a doctor in the House
Way back in February, when Tony Blair's government was a mere nine months old, I caught a late-night adjournment debate in which Dr Ian Gibson, newly-elected Labour MP for Norwich North, tore into the state of British cancer research with knowledge and passion.
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The cultivated commissioner
Only exacting recruitment and training will ensure health professionals can make a success of primary care groups, say Darrin Baines and Nigel Couper
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Life after LIZ
Despite three years of London initiative zone funding, the needs of primary care patients in A&E are still not being met, argue Ross Lawrenson and Geraldine Leydon
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Slow on the uptake
Managers' slothful practices in costing hospital equipment are wasting millions of pounds of NHS money every year, say Peter Cave and Leonora Descombes. And they don't even know they're doing it
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Lacklustre Maples for the chop?
Westminster gossip has fingered shadow health secretary John Maples as a potential reshuffle victim when William Hague attempts to sharpen up the Conservatives' 'lacklustre' performance in opposition.
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Mac the knife reveals his operation desert storm
Guy's Hospital legend has it that in the 1970s surgeon Ian McColl, flew out to Libya, trekked on camel-back deep into the desert where, in a nomad's tent, he ministered to the ulcers and bunions of the infamous dictator, Colonel Ghaddafi.