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Waiting for the party to begin
The New NHS white paper emphasises the need to improve clinical governance. The government's plans for a National Institute for Clinical Excellence and a Commission for Health Improvement are to be elaborated soon.
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Why Bickerstaffe is still no Buddy of New Labour
I don't know where you were when the Easter pay debate erupted. But St Ives in Cornwall was as good a vantage point as any. Pay is notoriously low and seasonal in the West Country, though indices of poverty (and thus of NHS grants) are distorted by high levels of ...
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In Brief: Bowel cancer
An extra £10m is to be made available to treat people with bowel cancer, health secretary Frank Dobson said this week.
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In Brief: E coli food poisoning
A public inquiry into the world's worst E coli food poisoning outbreak, which killed at least 20 people in central Scotland in 1996, has opened in Motherwell. Sheriff principal Graham Cox is expected to hear from 150 witnesses over the next three months.
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In Brief: Multiple Sclerosis Society
The Multiple Sclerosis Society this week pressed the government to give teeth to its white paper commitment to set national standards of healthcare. Until equitable guidelines are in place patients will continue to face 'the postcode lottery on new drug treatments and services' the society said. With the National Hospital ...
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In Brief: New Deal
The government will have to tackle the health problems facing many lone parents before it can help them back to work under the New Deal, a study suggests. It found that illness and disability among a 1991 sample of lone-parent families had doubled by 1995.
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In Brief: West Hertfordshire transport services
Four trusts say they have reached agreement on support services changes to free £1m for patient care in West Hertfordshire. Transport services and estates management will be provided by in-house teams while catering, cleaning and portering are set to go to Granada Healthcare.
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In Brief: Ivan Macky
Ivan Macky, a former doctor at Grantham Hospital, Lincolnshire, was jailed for three years last week after being convicted last month of three charges of indecently assaulting patients in the hospital's casualty department.
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In Brief: King's Fund
A three-year scheme to evaluate new ways of working in primary care was launched this week by the King's Fund and the National Primary Care Research and Development Centre. It will look at developments in nine Primary Care Act pilot sites in England and Wales.
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CHC to voice concerns over Lighthouse funding
Concerns about the way £1.7m of NHS funding for residential services was withdrawn from a leading centre for people with HIV and AIDS are to be raised with health secretary Frank Dobson.
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Horses for courses?
Who are the favourites to succeed Sir Kenneth Calman as chief medical officer? Barbara Millar reports on the best bets
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RCP warning on psychiatric unit crowding
Trusts are warned this week not to economise on inpatient psychiatric units by cramming too many patients into wards or by diluting the skill-mix of nursing staff.
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Ministers 'delayed food safety plans'
Measures to prevent food poisoning outbreaks of the sort which claimed 20 lives in Scotland in 1996 were held up for a year by infighting between ministers and their departments, a top public health expert has claimed.
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GPs' leaders demand huge rise in medical students
GPs' leaders have urged the government to approve a massive increase in medical student numbers to help avert a 'crisis' in family doctor services.
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Dying for a good meal?
The NHS serves 3 million meals a day - more than any other organisation in the UK, even McDonald's. But more than a third of hospital patients suffer from malnutrition. Barbara Millar reports on initiatives to improve standards