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The estimated total start-up cost of implementing the Putting Patients First white paper health reforms for Wales is £10m, with recurring costs of £7m a year. But they will provide savings of up to £50m over the next five years, said Welsh health minister Win Griffiths. (4 March, col 675)
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Sheepish grins
Holly Wharton, 12, poses for the cameras alongside actress Jenny Agutter, who carries the cystic fibrosis gene, in a jumper made from the wool of Dolly, the cloned sheep. Research into Dolly may provide a key to a cure for cystic fibrosis. Holly, of Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, won a national competition ...
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Economics guru urges Labour to scrap PFI
New Labour economics guru and Observer editor Will Hutton has urged the government to scrap the private finance initiative.
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Don't tell a soul
IT staff will have their work cut out tightening up patient confidentiality measures. Peter Mitchell reports
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GMC finds fatal heart op doctor guilty
A consultant who carried out a fatal heart procedure on a six-year-old girl has been found guilty of serious professional misconduct for acting without her parents' consent.
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UKCC demands tougher line on imposter nurses
Nursing's regulatory body is calling for more punitive legal sanctions against imposters who pose as qualified nurses.
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New pay system 'could cut managers' earning power'
An overhaul of the senior managers' pay system being introduced next month is premature and could cut individuals' earning potential, Unison and the Institute of Health Services Management have warned.
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Curbs fall on fundholders' spending as scheme folds
New fundholder regulations have effectively put health authorities on notice to prevent a spending spree by GPs before the scheme ends in April 1999.
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Cruel illusions of progress
The reception given to the government's public health strategy green paper has, in marked contrast to The New NHS white paper, been rather muted. Perhaps things would have been different if, as originally intended, the green paper had preceded the white. As it is, the NHS agenda has assumed supremacy. ...
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Identity crises
Imposters posing as nurses or other professionals put patients at risk, but trusts have a poor record of checking job applicants' registrations. Pat Healy reports
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Tory fight to save community units
In the wake of their failed assault on Labour's supposed manipulation of NHS board appointments, the Tories are massing for another attack: on the threatened closure of community hospitals.
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Weaknesses at LAS might have caused death
Weaknesses in the leadership, management, discipline and organisational structure of the London ambulance service may have been responsible for the behaviour of a crew that refused to take a dying man to hospital, according to an independent panel.
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Private cash plan for health centres
Redevelopment schemes for up to 30 health centres could be 'batched' together into single private finance initiative deals in an attempt to boost private sector investment outside the acute hospital sector, health minister Alan Milburn revealed last week.