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'Drugs czar' Keith Hellawell holds up a new drugs guide for 14- 16-year-olds during a press call at Haverstock school, London. Mr Hellawell, UK anti-drugs co-ordinator, said The Score: facts about drugs was designed to combat 'the huge amount of misinformation and myths' circulating among young people. The Health Education ...
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Ministers set to concede defeat on inequality targets
Ministers are ready to concede defeat in their efforts to set national targets for the reduction of health inequalities.
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Milburn orders publication of Read report
Health minister Alan Milburn has ordered the speedy publication of an allegedly damning report on a crisis-hit NHS computer project amid reports of a cover-up.
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Fundamental changes to NHS financing ruled out
Health secretary Frank Dobson this week ruled out any 'fundamental changes in the way the NHS is financed', and launched a vigorous defence of its role in making the British economy more competitive.
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Funding gap, not enmity, blamed for 'Berlin walls'
Inadequate funding of social care, rather than poor relationships, is responsible for 'Berlin walls' between health and social services, MPs were told this week.
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Staff complain of exclusion from white paper
Professionals and trade unions representing a range of NHS staff this week warned the government its reforms are excluding them.
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Doctors' training to include management skills
Radical proposals to put management at the heart of junior doctors' training have been accepted by professional bodies.
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Welsh white paper outlines different GP structure plus role for Assembly
Health professionals last week cautiously welcomed the white paper on the future of the NHS in Wales, but cast doubt on government claims that it will save pounds50m.
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Doctors' lobby group changes name to broaden primary care base
A primary care commissioning lobby group is set to change its name to reflect the 'new NHS' and enable it to draw a wider membership.
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Mental health guidance 'will mean huge extra workload'
Tens of thousands of patients may need to be assessed to determine if they should be sectioned under the Mental Health Act, under new guidance issued by the NHS Executive. Managers fear a huge rise in workload in having to comply with the requirement.
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Private health insurer BUPA
Private health insurer BUPA has been invited to sponsor a review of the future of the NHS, looking at its likely development by 2020, as part of the NHS's 50th anniversary celebrations in July. NHS Confederation deputy chief executive Jean Trainor said, if it took part, the company would have ...
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Scottish group suggests single Lothian trust
A Scottish working group has raised the possibility of there being just one acute trust in Lothian, against the grain of government thinking.
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Bristol heart surgeon received pounds150,000 in 'distinction awards'
Bristol heart surgeon James Wisheart has received almost pounds150,000 in 'distinction awards' since concerns were raised about his performance in complex operations on small babies, it has emerged.
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CHCs ask Dobson to act over legal ser vices tender
Health secretary Frank Dobson has been urged to intervene to stop high street lawyers taking over the legal service of the Association of Community Health Councils of England and Wales.
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It's quicker by tube
It's quicker by tube: a pounds500,000 pharmacy unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary brings together the dispensary and the medicine preparation unit for the first time, and has a hi-tech air-tube delivery system which will speed up the transfer of prescriptions and drugs between the pharmacy and hospital wards. 'It signals ...
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GP sues HA boss who 'lured away patients'
A GP is suing a health authority chief executive in an attempt to prove he tried to lure patients away from his practice.
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Director of DoH resources and services post goes to Straw's wife
Alice Perkins, a career civil servant and wife of home secretary Jack Straw, has been appointed to one of the top jobs at the Department of Health.
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In sickness, not in health
Which NHS staff group smokes the most, and which drinks the least? And why are sickness absence rates so high? Mark Crail reports on a Health Education Authority survey