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Opposition parties are 'disappointed'
Shadow health secretary John Maples said the extra pounds500m for the health service announced by chancellor Gordon Brown was 'disappointing'.
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An early version of Welfare to Work, the government's flagship employment policy aimed at getting unemployed young people into work, was test-driven by St James's University Hospital trust, Leeds, a year ago.
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An early version of Welfare to Work, the government's flagship employment policy aimed at getting unemployed young people into work, was test-driven by St James' and Seacroft University Hospital trust, Leeds, a year ago.
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Food scare?
Food scare? Not everyone takes willingly to eating greens so dieticians and nurses at Halifax General Hospital dressed up as fruit and vegetables to get children interested in healthy eating. They were helping to promote national food awareness week (9-15 March), masterminded by the British Dietetic Association. Putting the message ...
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Forward to the past
Has Gordon Brown already been more generous towards the NHS than a Tory chancellor would have been? John Appleby assesses the background to this week's Budget
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NURSES ARE TELLING US WHY THE GOING IS TOUGH
Two factors were missing from the otherwise excellent review of the current and predicted nursing shortage ('When the going gets tough', pages 28-31, 26 February).
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From showpiece to scrap heap
When English Heritage paid a recent visit to St Margaret's Hospital, Swindon, they 'threw up their hands in horror', admits Ian Keeber, the trust's public relations officer.
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High hopes
The need to modernise a dilapidated and obsolete hospital stock was a major problem facing the early NHS. In the first of three articles on the forces that shaped today's NHS estate, Ann Dix investigates the ups and downs of the post war years
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BY MATT MUIJEN Let's use it or lose it
What events in the 1990s will be considered significant when the history of mental healthcare is written? It is hard to tell because of so many false dawns. Responses to crises have often been little more than superficial public relations jobs coupled with a new tranche of guidance - some ...
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Memories of a rock musician
Rock musician Ian Dury is someone who knows all about the inside of hospitals. He contracted polio in 1949, aged seven, probably in the public swimming pool at Southend.
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Memories of a nurse
The scars of the second world war were still in evidence when Diana Vass, now principal nurse adviser at NHS Estates, joined London's St Thomas' Hospital in 1956 as a trainee nurse.
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Money on the move
Has Gordon Brown already been more generous towards the NHS than a Tory chancellor would have been? John Appleby assesses the background to this week's Budget
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Open to question
Health secretary Frank Dobson last year asked trust chairs to ensure their meetings were open to the public. He believed that the public would 'gain a wider understanding of the constraints and opportunities we face' and 'become more involved in their local health service and have a greater voice in ...
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In pursuit of 'therapeutic optimism'
The New Deal could provide a shot in the arm for mental health policy, some experts believe.
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In pursuit of 'therapeutic optimism'
The New Deal could provide a shot in the arm for mental health policy, some experts believe.
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Putting paid to the past
MSF's equal-pay claim, based on a landmark ruling from the European Court, could make the NHS overhaul its pay structure, says Lyn Whitfield
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In person
The Royal Marsden trust has appointed Cally Palmer as chief executive. She joins from the Royal Free Hampstead trust, where she is currently deputy chief executive and director of services. Ms Palmer succeeds Phyllis Cunningham CBE, who is leaving at the end of May after 24 years at the hospital.