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Growth area
Cancer services have received a boost, following new health secretary Alan Milburn's 'three Cs' pledge. But a report questions whether 'open access' arrangements actually lead to quicker treatment, writes Barbara Millar
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Langlands points to shared responsibilities of all
NHS chief executive Sir Alan Langlands told the inquiry last week that individuals and 'the system' were responsible for preventing clinical failures.
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Fake incidents mar campaign against violence on NHS staff
The government's 'NHS zero tolerance zone' campaign to counter violence against NHS staff has been found to be using fake incidents in its publicity material.
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Short Cuts: Doctors to get benefits advice training
Doctors are to get special training to improve the quality, consistency and accuracy of medical advice on benefit entitlement, social security minister Hugh Bayley announced last week. He told MPs that he was determined to change the low status of disability assessment medicine in the medical profession and inadequate government ...
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NHS 'on target for Y2K'
The Department of Health has declared the NHS 'ready' for the millennium date change.
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First-wave PCTs could number 19
Up to 19 independent primary care trusts could be established in the first wave of the government's reform of community and family health services next April.
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NHS told to recruit 1,000 from New Deal
Managers have been given strict deadlines to recruit 1,000 unemployed people into the NHS after official figures revealed a poor uptake of the New Deal welfare-to-work scheme.
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WEB WATCH
So you want to undertake a systematic review of discharge planning to find out what really works. But how do you know someone else isn't already doing the same thing? In fact, they are: details are on the National Research Register along with information about 42,000 other research projects of ...
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In person
Dr Helen Matthews, a consultant old age psychiatrist at Western Community Hospital in Southampton, has become medical director of Southampton Community Health Services trust. She takes over from Dr Colin Godber, who has stepped down after three years in post, but will continue to work as a consultant. East London ...
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The young ones
For our occasional profiles of professionals in contrasting roles, Alison Moore meets two people promoting young people's health - one in a prison, the other an adviser on sexual health with a health authority
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Staff views on old-age services are 'negative'
Front-line staff working with older people would not like to rely on the services they provide in their own old age, King's Fund research has found.
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Monitor
Monitor is delighted to welcome back Alan Milburn to the fold, and to reassure readers that the alarming, shark-like grimace he affects in so many photos is not intended to be as threatening as it looks. Monitor's sources recall a conversation in which our new lord and master blamed former ...
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Yule remember HA's message
Cambridgeshire health authority is planning to send out 300,000 Christmas cards bearing such seasonal messages as how to cook safely, cope with a hangover and decide whether to call out an ambulance.