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    We're facing the same direction

    2000-11-02T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    Dear Mel. . .

    2000-11-02T00:00:00Z

    As the chief officer of a community health council I am a bit worried about what I and my council members will do once CHCs are abolished. Any ideas?

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    Days like this

    2000-11-02T00:00:00Z

    Health authorities are being allowed to delay paying creditors just months after the Commons social services select committee condemned the practice as 'deplorable. Falling receipts from land sales and the need to clear underlying deficits before the start of the internal market on 1 April have driven some HAs to ...

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    Unkindest cut?

    2000-11-02T00:00:00Z

    Bill Clinton's government thought a massive programme of cuts to the health budget could be withstood by the industry. It may have been very wrong, writes Howard Berliner

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    Trusts told to prepare for new fuel crisis

    2000-11-02T00:00:00Z

    Trusts are being told to stockpile supplies and fuel, and regional offices must be ready to provide round-the-clock crisis cover, if Britain hits a second fuel crisis.

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    Health workers 'most content'

    2000-11-02T00:00:00Z

    Health sector workers are 'the most content' with their work life, compared with those in central and local government or the private sector, a survey has revealed.

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    Ready for take-off, but concordat could nose-dive

    2000-11-02T00:00:00Z

    Warm embrace of private healthcare by Labour is high-risk strategy

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    Historic concordat sparks new fears of workforce crisis in NHS

    2000-11-02T00:00:00Z

    The government has launched its concordat between the NHS and private healthcare sector, putting it on a formal footing for the first time and raising fears it will worsen the staffing crisis in the NHS.

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    Ledward victims seek compensation from HA

    2000-11-02T00:00:00Z

    Victims of the disgraced surgeon Rodney Ledward, who died from pancreatic cancer last month, say they will be seeking financial compensation from East Kent health authority. Detectives were on the verge of bringing charges against Mr Ledward, the self-styled 'fastest gynaecologist in the South East', and had been looking to ...

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    Health committee: government response

    2000-11-02T00:00:00Z

    The government has published its response to the Commons health committee's report on mental health.Noting the committee's concerns about the experience of black and minority ethnic users and continuing inadequacies in services, it promised to charge its mental health taskforce to tackle the issues.But it responded to the select committee's ...

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    Coming soon to the NHS near you. . . the main players

    2000-11-02T00:00:00Z

    Acute General Healthcare Group, BUPA and Nuffield Hospitals account for nearly 60 per cent of the independent acute hospital markets.

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    Clever Trevor

    2000-11-02T00:00:00Z

    Trevor Jones,49, has spent almost all his working life in local government and the NHS. Born in Penshaw, County Durham, he became a local government trainee accountant in 1969.In 1978 he was appointed regional auditor and senior assistant regional treasurer with the Northern regional health authority.

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    MPs pack meeting over replacements for CHCs

    2000-11-02T00:00:00Z

    More than 50 MPs packed a meeting of the all-party group on community health councils last week. Vice-chair of the group Labour MP Deborah Shipley said there was 'standing room only' at the meeting, requested by junior health minister Gisela Stuart. Ms Shipley said there was 'a need for more ...

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    What exactly is intermediate care?

    2000-11-02T00:00:00Z

    Everyone thinks intermediate care is a wonderful idea.But progress is hampered by uncertainty about what it means.

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    Health without a care

    2000-11-02T00:00:00Z

    What constitutes health improvement? And with so many differing definitions, what chance has it got, ask Stephen Abbott and Steve Gillam

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    Local services 'must be responsible for bringing prison care up to scratch'

    2000-11-02T00:00:00Z

    Local NHS mental health services should take the lead in ensuring that levels of care for prisoners match current good practice in the NHS, according to a report by the government's working group on prison nursing.

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    A brighter future?

    2000-11-02T00:00:00Z

    The Institute of Health Research at Lancaster University is seeking to tackle problems in rural health in a two-year research project. It aims to address the health needs of the farming community and their exclusion from health services - a result of farming and health service timetables clashing.

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    In Brief

    2000-11-02T00:00:00Z

    Microbiologists say they are winning the battle against hospital-acquired infections like Methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).Dr Bob Masterton and colleagues from Western General Hospital in Edinburgh have discovered that levels of resistance to antibiotics have stopped rising for the first time in 10 years.