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Parting of ways on Whitechapel project
A trust involved in a high-profile private finance initiative project parted company with its private partner last week.
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In person
John Mangan (above) has been appointed chief executive of the newly formed Thames Gateway trust. Mr Mangan was previously chief executive of North Kent Healthcare trust, which has merged with Thameslink Healthcare Services trust to form Thames Gateway. Mr Mangan qualified in psychiatric and general nursing and then took a ...
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Naeem Chaudry from Edinburgh's new interpretation and translation service shows Edinburgh Royal Infirmary clerical officer Annette Perfect (far left) and auxiliary nurse Christina Johnston how patients can request its services using leaflets printed in different languages. ITS can provide interpreters and translations in 30 languages. It can also provide signers ...
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This week
Health check: public health minister Tessa Jowell arriving at the Langham working men's club, north London, where she launched a men's health campaign aimed at the over 40s. Club member Steve Connell, aged 44, is having his blood pressure taken by Ian Banks, head of the British Medical Association's men's ...
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In Brief: Year 2000 bug
Less than a quarter of NHS computer systems have been safeguarded against the year 2000 bug, according to preliminary findings of a survey by the independent consultancy Solace, commissioned by software house Prove It 2000. Only 6 per cent of the 1,024 organisations surveyed hold guarantees that the bug will ...
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In Brief: Berkshire health authority accepts liability
Berkshire health authority has accepted liability for the severe brain damage at birth of Lesley Wildsmith, now aged 24.
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Mental health groups accuse Labour of going back on election promises
Mental health groups reacted with dismay this week to the government's asyet still-secret plans for a shift in policy on community care backed by £50m a year investment in NHS mental health services.
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In Brief: Hospital porters ballot on industrial action
Hospital porters at Leicester Royal Infirmary are threatening to hold a ballot on industrial action following the breakdown of talks over plans by private contractor Serco, which provides portering services at the hospital, to scrap their bonus payments.
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In Brief: Values into Action study
Hundreds of thousands of pounds are being wasted keeping people with learning difficulties in residential care when it would be cheaper to help them live at home, a government-funded study by the charity Values into Action says. The Cost of Opportunity: purchasing strategies in the housing and support arrangements of ...
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Raised hope of health action for N Ireland
Action to change the structure of health and personal social services could be taken within days of the setting up of the proposed new Northern Ireland assembly, health minister Tony Worthington said last week.
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Fast among equals
Furious debate about waiting times doesn't just happen in the UK. Tony Sheldon reports on a row about fast-track treatment preoccupying the egalitarian Dutch as they cast their votes
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In Brief: Campaign for Freedom of Information annual award
Neil Woodward, a medical scientist who exposed the extent of misreporting of cervical smears at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital on Channel 4's Dispatches programme last year, has received a Campaign for Freedom of Information annual award.
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Joint approach
The government's anti-drugs initiative aims at prevention, targeting the young and working with education and health authorities. Lyn Whitfield reports
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Blair picks 'list buster' to crack down on waiting
Prime Minister Tony Blair marked his first year in office last week by stepping up action on hospital waiting lists, which he said were still 'unacceptably high'.
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In Brief: Former nurse Gloria Justice
Former nurse Gloria Justice, whose career ended when she injured her back lifting a patient at Newcastle's Walkergate Hospital eight years ago, has been awarded £90,000. Ms Justice claimed she had not been trained in safe lifting techniques.