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Finance managers: give us timetable for latest reforms
Finance managers have warned the government to get to grips with the process of implementing its NHS reforms before it is too late. They want a timetable by the end of the month, setting out the work needed to implement the white paper.
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13 HAs fail to reach targets for screening
Thirteen health authorities failed to screen sufficient women to reach the national target for cervical screening in 1996-97, the National Audit Office said this week.
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Hands of history?
Public health minister Tessa Jowell makes her mark as she formally launches the health action zone for Manchester, Salford and Trafford this week. She presents a display of handprints from local children whose health prospects will be a key focus for the HAZ. Work has started on the seven year ...
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Professional approaches
Designating cancer units requires time, tact and training. Liz Scott and colleagues describe one system
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on the record
ANDREW CORBETT-NOLAN is director of Health Services Accreditation and deputy chair of the Terrence Higgins Trust. A medieval historian by background, he joined the NHS in 1987. He has led the development of HSA since its inception in a pub in 1991 to its current status as a national programme.
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in person
Ian Cumming (above) has become chief executive of the recently created Morecambe Bay Hospitals trust. He was formerly chief executive of Lancaster Acute Hospitals trust and oversaw its merger with Furness Hospitals trust and Westmorland Hospitals trust to form the organisation he now leads.
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Christmas 'cancelled' as IT bug panic bites across NHS
Hospitals are set to cancel Christmas leave for many staff next year to guard against potential disaster from the millennium IT bug.
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Health secretary is asked to stop closures
Health secretary Frank Dobson has been urged to stop the closure of continuing care beds at a London hospital because the community health council says the consultation process was 'inadequate'.
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Ambulance manager fired after inquiry
One manager has been sacked and another 'exonerated' following an internal inquiry by London Ambulance Service trust linked to the unfair dismissals of two crew members.
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In Brief: Bowel cancer
An extra £10m is to be made available to treat people with bowel cancer, health secretary Frank Dobson said this week.
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In Brief: E coli food poisoning
A public inquiry into the world's worst E coli food poisoning outbreak, which killed at least 20 people in central Scotland in 1996, has opened in Motherwell. Sheriff principal Graham Cox is expected to hear from 150 witnesses over the next three months.
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In Brief: Multiple Sclerosis Society
The Multiple Sclerosis Society this week pressed the government to give teeth to its white paper commitment to set national standards of healthcare. Until equitable guidelines are in place patients will continue to face 'the postcode lottery on new drug treatments and services' the society said. With the National Hospital ...
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In Brief: British Medical Association
The British Medical Association has welcomed a highly critical report on Britain's two immigration detention centres by the chief inspector of prisons, Sir David Ramsbotham. It identified gaps in basic healthcare and recommended an audit of healthcare needs.
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In Brief: Healthcare Financial Management Association
An extraordinary general meeting of the Healthcare Financial Management Association has agreed rule changes that will allow it to recruit a broader membership.
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Nurses jeer as Dobson says sorry for staged pay award
Health secretary Frank Dobson this week apologised for staging the nurses' pay award, but faced boos and jeers from angry delegates at the Royal College of Nursing congress.
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Partnership is key to Scottish HR strategy
A partnership between government, managers, unions and staff must be forged to sweep away outdated attitudes and employment practices, Scottish health minister Sam Galbraith said last week.
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CHC to voice concerns over Lighthouse funding
Concerns about the way £1.7m of NHS funding for residential services was withdrawn from a leading centre for people with HIV and AIDS are to be raised with health secretary Frank Dobson.
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RCP warning on psychiatric unit crowding
Trusts are warned this week not to economise on inpatient psychiatric units by cramming too many patients into wards or by diluting the skill-mix of nursing staff.
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SCODA: make drugs action a corporate goal
A coalition of drugs services has called for action against drug abuse to become a 'corporate goal' for the NHS.