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TENDER IS THE SLIGHT
In Pat Healy's article regarding the invitation to tender for legal services for the Association of Community Health Councils for England and Wales (News, page 9, 22 January), it is suggested that public law is a specialist legal area not usually practised by commercial solicitors. While I do not comment ...
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Tyne & Wear reveals HAZ potential to save pounds80m
Health and local government leaders predict they can squeeze pounds80m a year more out of existing resources under ambitious plans to pilot new models of care in Tyne & Wear.
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Executive halts ACHCEW legal service tender bids
Health officials have abandoned moves to find new lawyers for a national patients' group.
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Commissioning must be flexible to achieve targets, research suggests
Ministers may have to adopt a more 'flexible' approach to GP commissioning if they want it to deliver all their objectives for the NHS, research suggests.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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National Lottery Charities Board membership
Chair: Hon David Sieff, non-executive director, Marks & Spencer
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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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'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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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 ...