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Health secretary Frank Dobson
Health secretary Frank Dobson chats to patient Jean Boyle after officially opening Huddersfield Royal Infirmary's pounds1m critical care unit last week. Because of funding problems, the eight-bed unit has been running half-empty since it started accepting patients 18 months ago. The four intensive care beds at the unit have already ...
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Baby deaths case doctors want GMC hearing halted
Barristers for three doctors who face misconduct proceedings following the deaths of babies after heart surgery will this week call for the cases against them to be thrown out.
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Managers will be able to do their job 'more efficiently'
Managers will be able to do their job 'more efficiently' thanks to a new national e-mail system that will be created through NHSnet to link health authorities, trusts, the NHS Executive and the Department of Health for the first time, health minister Alan Milburn has announced. He said the system, ...
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24hr helpline could ease A&E pressures
A London health authority is using pounds195,000 of winter pressures money to launch what may be the first 24-hour nurse-led helpline to divert patients from casualty wards.
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Nursing regulations 'must protect the public'
Radical suggestions for changing the way in which nurses, midwives and health visitors are regulated have been set out in a report commissioned by the four UK health departments.
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Leaders signal merger of primary care lobby groups
Primary care leaders last week signalled their willingness to enter talks about a possible merger of the three main lobby groups.
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Health board workers asked to repay cash
More than a dozen employees of Tayside health board have been invited to repay money to which they were not entitled.
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Always read the label:
Always read the label: a patient gets to grips with half-a-dozen types of medication at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff. It is breaking with 25 years of NHS operating procedure by allowing patients to take their own medicines in hospital instead of confiscating or destroying them on admission. ...
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Managers believe there are too many trusts
Most managers believe there are too many trusts and that services need to be reconfigured, a survey shows.
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IN BRIEF
Director-general of fair trading John Bridgeman has announced that he will ask the Restrictive Practices Court to overturn its 1970 decision allowing drug companies to fix the price of branded, over-the-counter pharmaceuticals. The decision has angered drug companies and pharmacy pressure groups who claim the abolition of re-sale price maintenance ...
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Hospital project is 'proof' of new co-operation in NHS
An agreement between a health board and two trusts to build a new children's hospital in Scotland was hailed last week as proof of a new climate of co-operation in the NHS.
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Measures will help NHS fraud crack-down
Health authorities will be given access to GPs' accounts so they can investigate suspected fraud more easily, health minister Alan Milburn has announced.
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Angel and death
Angel and death: Marlene Dietrich, the German actress transformed into a screen icon in the 1930 film The Blue Angel, shows how smoking was once portrayed as the height of sophistication. The image comes from Cancer Wars, a four-part Channel 4 documentary starting on Sunday. The first programme focuses on ...
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Labour pains
For all the changes there have been in healthcare in the past half century, some common themes echo down the years, as these edited extracts from Geoffrey Rivett's new history of the NHS demonstrate
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Stirring up apathy
Not every set of NHS reforms has excited as much interest as there is today.
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Blissful ignorance
The medical profession of the 1950s gave short shrift to the idea of an informed public. Though many doctors thought that people should know more about health promotion, they felt a detailed knowledge of disease was not desirable.
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Time to take the medicine?
The Medical Workforce Standing Advisory Committee has recommended that 1,000 extra medical students be trained each year. But where will the money come from and do we need them, asks Lyn Whitfield