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Lighthouse nears rocks as consultation rethinks
Campaigners hoping to save the London Lighthouse HIV/AIDS centre as a health service facility have agreed to co-operate in a new consultation exercise which excludes it as a future provider of residential services.
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Is the use of such data 'new or true' ?
John Appleby (Data briefing, 4 June) is misleadingly dismissive of the substantial body of evidence suggesting a causal relationship between income inequality, poor health and raised mortality.
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Dirty washing
A Welsh trust's decision to privatise sterile services has led to the first strike in the NHS since Labour came to power.
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The out-of-hours doctor who quit general practice to 'get a life'
Paddy Glackin spent two years as a GP principal in north London before deciding he wanted 'to get a life'. Now he works for two London out-of- hours co-operatives and often takes time off to travel abroad.
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Manager s express doubts over Milburn's plans for shake-up of NHS finance regime
Two key government proposals to shake up the financial regime of the NHS have been greeted with scepticism by managers' leaders who say they cannot see how the new approach will reduce bureaucracy.
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Pressure increases to finance MS drugs
Health authorities could be under pressure to fund Betaferon treatment for thousands more patients - at a cost of millions of pounds - by the end of the year.
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There's no need to gloss over the facts
An Office for Public Management survey ('Off message', pages 26- 27, 7 May) suggests that many people feel glossy publications produced by the NHS are a waste of public money.
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Fears of Treasury meddling with IM&T
Leading computing suppliers fear that Treasury interference with the coming NHS IM&T strategy will leave unsolved their main problem - the byzantine procurement procedures imposed on trusts wanting to spend more than a trivial sum on their IT projects.
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A passion for Prudence which fills Gordon's heart
This column tries to resist conspiracy theory. All the same I couldn't help wondering why the 'Constitutional Declaration' that Tony Blair and a very happy Paddy Ashdown signed last week had been timed to coincide with Gordon Brown's big public spending statement, which put it in the shade.
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RCR survey findings
More than 40 per cent of respondents said morale was low or very low, with legal pressures among the factors blamed.
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Managers get their OATs
At the risk of appearing vulgar, we feel we have to point out that getting their OATs looks like becoming a preoccupation for NHS managers. The government's plans for replacing extra-contractual referrals with retrospective payments for 'out of area treatments' may resurrect some of the problems associated with funding cross-boundary ...
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Invisible link
Will the government's new strategy for carers mollify those who accuse the NHS of not doing enough to support them?
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Involve the voluntary sector in new PCGs
Like many of your readers I am interested in the formation of primary care groups - especially since the timescale for introducing them is relatively short.
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Never too late to learn
The Bristol baby deaths case has set the current agenda for debate on quality monitoring.
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Whine lists
GPs are now said to be working harder than ever - but are things really so bad? Fifty years ago the average GP had a list of 3,000 patients.The average figure masked the fact that huge numbers of GPs had larger lists, sometimes much larger.
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Picture this
Picture this: Pat Long was one of 40 students showing their art work at an exhibition in Leeds for participants in a course for people with mental illness. The exhibition, part-funded by Leeds Community and Mental Health Services trust, included drawings, paintings, collages and sculptures. Course co-ordinator Phil Hopkins said: ...