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Cash on delivery
Despite last week's resignation of the Lottery regulator, and calls for tighter control of the game, the Lottery remains an enticing source of funding. But tapping it is far from simple. Barbara Millar reports
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Part-timers' pension cases go to Europe
Test cases affecting the pensions of thousands of part-time health workers were referred to the European Court of Justice by the House of Lords last week.
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Cambridge clean-up
In Cambridge, health and local authorities are working together to reduce the impact of air pollution on the city centre and to improve the health, quality of life and the environment of those who use it.
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Doubting David's healthy concern for Britain's ills
The paragraph which leapt from the pages of the public health green paper, Our Healthier Nation, was the one which proclaimed 'a third way between the old extremes of individual victim-blaming on the one hand and nanny-state social engineering on the other. Good health is no longer about blame, but ...
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IN BRIEF
Ministers have given the go-ahead for Harefield Hospital trust and the Royal Brompton Hospital trust to merge on 1 April, creating the 'largest cardiothoracic centre in Europe'. Harefield trust chair Sir Geoffrey Errington hailed the decision as a 'major step forward' in the treatment of people with heart and lung ...
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IN BRIEF
Doctors have accused Welsh health authorities of pre-empting consultation on the setting up of local health groups as envisaged by the government's white paper. British Medical Association Welsh council chair Bryn John said he was disturbed that HAs seemed to be making decisions before the legal framework for the groups ...
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'No Labour deadheads' on boards
Health secretary Frank Dobson came under fire last week for not putting enough Labour councillors onto trust boards.
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Board-game losers
Tory attempts to 'expose' wrongdoing in the government's handling of NHS board appointments have fallen flat.
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National Lottery Charities Board membership
Chair: Hon David Sieff, non-executive director, Marks & Spencer
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Models may standardise PFI bidding
A government taskforce called this week for standard models for procuring hospital private finance intiative projects.
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Ministers told to stump up extra cash to 'save' Bart's
The Royal Hospitals trust is lobbying ministers to back their decision to 'save' St Bartholomew's Hospital with extra cash.
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London mental health wards turn away patients
A quarter of acute psychiatric wards in London are unable to admit severely disturbed patients, even though extra beds have been made available, according to a survey published this week.
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Sense of authority
In the first of this week's two-part look at NHS board appointments, Pat Healy reports on the influx of councillors with social services backgrounds
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Ashes to ashes
There is a long way to go yet before the EU ban on tobacco advertising becomes a reality. Tony Sheldon reports on the hurdles it still has to jump
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Anti-merger campaigners rat tle Bro Taf HA
The chair of a Welsh health authority has claimed that staff have faced an 'unacceptable amount of lobbying' and 'threats' while drawing up trust reconfiguration plans.
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Anger as green paper falls short on inequalities and funding pledges
Public health and mental health experts have attacked the government's long-awaited public health green paper for not going far enough to tackle problems.
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Something in the air
Noxious car exhaust fumes and diesel smoke are costing the country pounds11bn a year through ill-health and early deaths, according to a report published by the British Lung Foundation this week.
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Taking aim
The government has selected four key targets for 2010 to replace the 27 in The Health of the Nation:
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More ambitious public health agenda for Scotland
Ministers in Scotland have opted to set a wider range of national targets than England's in the battle to improve public health.