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in brief: Waiting lists
Waiting lists dropped by 30,900 in February to 1,087,800. The latest figures bring the government to within 30,000 of its manifesto commitment to cut waiting lists by 100,000 within this parliament.
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in brief: Unison
Unison has pledged to sue trusts and manufacturers in Scotland if health workers are injured by syringes, in an attempt to force employers to use 'safe' needlesticks.
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in brief: Domestic violence
The NHS should do more to help victims of domestic violence, public health minister Yvette Cooper has said while launching a manual for health professionals.
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in brief: Shaping Tomorrow
Doctors' leaders are to write to every local GP representative in the country asking them for their vision of the future of general practice. British Medical Association GPs' committee chair Dr John Chisholm is to ask local medical committees to arrange meetings to discuss ideas outlined in the committee's book, ...
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in brief: Alan Milburn
Health secretary Alan Milburn is wrong to distrust health authorities with modernisistion money, according to health service insiders. In a lift to HAs, 58 per cent of visitors to HSJ's website who voted on the question of the week did not back Mr Milburn. Forty-two per cent supported his stance.
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in brief: Incorrect issue numbers
Two of the issue numbers published in recent editions of HSJ are incorrect. The issue of 23 March 2000, wrongly identified as no. 5695, is in fact 5697. The issue of 30 March, identified as no. 5696 is, in fact, 5698. This week's edition is no. 5699. We apologise for ...
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Patients transferred as GPs wind down PCG
GPs have voted to disband a west London primary care group in the first case of its kind.
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HA chair resigns in protest over 'bypass' plans for Budget money
A health authority chair has resigned in protest at the government's claim that Budget money would bypass HAs.
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Chief executive to step down with £4.2m deficit uncleared
West Sussex health authority's controversial chief executive Peter Catchpole is to leave for a new career, having failed to clear the HA's historic deficit.
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Views sought on merger plan
South Staffordshire health authority is to launch a formal consultation on proposals to merge mental health and community trusts.
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A helping handbook
Elias Fantousi swots up on valuable skills in the junior paramedics' firstaid handbook, which East Anglian Ambulance Service helped to produce. The seven-year-old was one of more than 20,000 children given the book, which teaches youngsters basic first aid as well as how their bodies work.
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Welsh review group examines allocation
The Welsh Assembly has brought forward a review of the funding allocation system for the NHS in Wales, and appointed an independent review group chair.
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Life for patient who took hostage
A patient who effectively shut down a hospital in Wales for two days by holding a doctor at gunpoint has been given a life sentence.
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Leading analyst dubs Labour health policies 'boring'
The government's healthcare policies have so far proved 'terribly boring' compared with the sort of initiative that might be expected in a second term, a leading policy analyst claimed this week. Speaking at the launch of King's College London's institute for applied health and social policy, Dr Perri 6, former ...
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Modernisation team will address sex inequalities
Public health minister Yvette Cooper has announced that the prevention and inequalities modernisation action team will look at ways of reducing 'the health inequalities which exist between men and women'. At a men's health conference in Birmingham, she also said the new Health Development Agency would look at what measures ...
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Hutton promises boost in equipment standards
Health minister John Hutton has responded to last week's Audit Commission report on equipment services by promising that standards will be 'driven up' and highlighting investment already promised for hearing aid and wheelchair services. NHS Confederation chief executive Stephen Thornton said managers wanted to end the 'postcode lottery of care'. ...
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New coalition aiming to build on strategy for London
A Coalition for Health and Regeneration in London has been launched 'to ensure that improving the health of Londoners is on everyone's agenda across the capital'. It brings together a wide range of organisations, including the King's Fund, London regional office and the Government Office for London to create an ...
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Birmingham set to host defence medicine centre
Defence minister John Spellar and junior health minister Gisela Stuart have signed an agreement to create a centre for defence medicine at University Hospital Birmingham trust, which should open in April next year. The centre replaces the last remaining forces hospital in the UK, at Gosport in Hampshire, and will ...
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MPs grill Langlands on 'good practice' roll-out
NHS chief executive Sir Alan Langlands has been grilled on why the NHS apparently struggles to make progress in areas the government wants to see tackled in its drive for modernisation.