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In brief: Essex Rivers Healthcare trust
Essex Rivers Healthcare trust saw work start this week on an £890,000 scheme to expand and modernise the accident and emergency department of Colchester General Hospital. Almost £600,000 will come from the government's modernisation fund, although the trust is still trying to secure 'a larger contribution'from this.
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In brief: Unison workers
A poll of 650 readers of the Dudley and Stourbridge News attracted 80 per cent support for Unison workers holding their fourth strike in six weeks against a private finance initiative hospital rebuilding project in Dudley.
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Employers and unions at odds in final submissions to pay bodies
Employers and unions were set for a head-on collision over pay as the last submissions to the NHS pay review bodies were handed in this week.
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£100m dental strategy 'won't halt'private practice exodus
The government launched a £100m, two-year NHS dental strategy this week - but it will not stem the tide of dentists leaving the NHS for private practice, say dentists' leaders.
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Consultants' plans aim to remove sting from curbs on nonNHS work
Consultants have reiterated their opposition to government plans to restrict their freedom to work in the private sector by issuing their own proposals to reform the consultant contract.
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Campaign launched to put patients centre-stage
A campaign has been launched, led by the Long-Term Medical Conditions Alliance, to put patients centre-stage in the New NHS. People's Voice for Health (pv4h) argues that the NHS plan was 'a step in the right direction'. But it now wants a commitment to a comprehensive service, involving the people ...
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Operations prompt Bart's chief to step down early
Ray Pett, chief executive of Barts and the London trust, has announced that he is to retire early. Mr Pett (pictured) said he had intended to 'stay on for another year or so' but did not feel fully recovered from two operations and an infection last year. He also argued ...
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Group claims inroads on improvements to hospital
The East London Communities Organisation has claimed an 'important step forward' in securing better services at Newham General Hospital. Following a meeting to launch a report on the state of the hospital, it said managers had promised changes to the way food was heated and serviced in the hospital, with ...
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Tough guidelines will tackle illegal tobacco sales
Public health minister Yvette Cooper has launched a new set of guidelines, developed with the Department of Trade and Industry with support from trading standards officers and local authorities, to 'get tough' on shop-keepers who sell cigarettes to under-age children. The tobacco enforcement protocol sets out best practice on issues ...
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Hutt announces degree boon in midwifery courses
Half of entrants to midwifery courses in Wales can now undertake a degree programme, Welsh Assembly health and social services secretary Jane Hutt told the Welsh conference on nursing, midwifery and health visiting last week. Ms Hutt said that nursing, midwifery and health education represented the biggest single discipline in ...
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'Extra resources needed' to meet future demands on mental health
An interim strategy examining how the NHS can build a mental health workforce to meet the demands of the national service framework and NHS plan says extra resources will still be needed.
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Wales 'needs new priorities by 2002'
The NHS in Wales should move towards a 'transparent and consistent' system of prioritising patients based on clinical need, according to a report endorsed last week by the Welsh Assembly's health committee.
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Contractors criticised on records
Financial controls over central finance services contracted out by the Public Health Laboratory Service broke down in 1998-99, the National Audit Office has found.
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'Red alert' removed as petrol crisis ends
The NHS was taken off 'red alert' on Monday as fuel supplies started to return to normal following the blockade of oil refineries.
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Toolkit will help trusts judge beds capacity
Trusts and health authorities will receive 'prescriptive' guidance next month showing them how to get their share of 2,100 extra acute and general beds promised in the NHS plan.
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Cancelled ops suggestwinterwoes
Figures showing a big jump in cancelled operations this year suggest that managers will struggle to comply with ministerial orders to keep them to a minimum this winter.
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Birmingham HA appoints Scots NHS chief
Geoff Scaife, chief executive of the NHS in Scotland for the past seven years, is to become the new chief executive of Birmingham health authority.
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Isn't the BMA great? It takes care of poor struggling doctors who wouldn't be able to look after themselves, and worries about wider issues too - like whether they are being paid enough, and whether the financial resources are in place and whether there is enough money being provided to ...
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MP goes to war over 'unsafe'hospital huts
An MP is highlighting the 'unsafe' condition of Second World War huts at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital in a renewed bid to have them replaced by purpose-built facilities.
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£630m set aside for winter care
The winter emergency services team is planning 40 visits to 'key health and social care communities' as part of plans aimed at averting the annual NHS 'winter crisis', junior health minister Gisela Stuart announced last week.