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IT bug claims its first victim as booking system crashes
The first trust has already fallen victim to the millennium computer bug, the Audit Commission revealed this week.
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Sterile services strikers go back to work as trust drops sacking threat
The first major NHS strike since Labour came to power has been suspended amid allegations of 'bully-boy tactics' by University of Wales Hospital trust.
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Widdecombe attacks 'bungled PR'
Shadow health secretary Ann Widdecombe launched her first assault on the government's NHS record this week as health secretary Frank Dobson claimed 3,100 beds would open or stay open thanks to the government's waiting list initiative.
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Manager s express doubts over Milburn's plans for shake-up of NHS finance regime
Two key government proposals to shake up the financial regime of the NHS have been greeted with scepticism by managers' leaders who say they cannot see how the new approach will reduce bureaucracy.
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Case notes:
former United Bristol Healthcare trust chief executive John Roylance returns to the General Medical Council this week to hear submissions on whether the 'finding on the facts' against him and surgeons James Wisheart and Janardan Dhasmana in the Bristol baby deaths case amounts to professional misconduct.
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in brief
NHS chief executive Alan Langlands headed a long list of health service staff in the Queen's birthday honours. There were CBEs for North Thames regional director Ron Kerr and Northern and Yorkshire regional chair Zahida Manzoor, and OBEs for Newcastle City Health trust chief executive Lionel Joyce and Bromley health ...
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CHCs join revolt over director appointment
Community health councils are in rebellion over the appointment of a new director for their national association in moves that could disrupt the patient watchdog movement's conference.