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19 Jul 01
This week's damning report into the deaths of children at the Bristol Royal Infirmary is the first of four inquiries into the health service's handling of complaints against doctors.
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19 Jul 01
Nurses and health care assistants involved in pioneering work on aromatherapy, horticultural therapy and coronary care for Asian women have been recognised in the first Prince of Wales Awards for...
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12 Jul 01
About the only thing that provokes a consensus on Best Value is the need for change.
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12 Jul 01
Hopes that a new GP contract will be agreed soon rose this week after Health Secretary Alan Milburn invited the NHS Confederation to lead the discussions on behalf of health service employers.
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12 Jul 01
More than 135 companies have expressed an interest in joining a groundbreaking NHS public-private partnership, it was revealed this week.
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28 Jun 01
Sir Andrew Foster will take over as head of the Best Value Inspectorate after Wendy Thomson was poached by 10 Downing Street to head up a new team advising Tony Blair on public service reform.
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28 Jun 01
The NHS is showing increasing signs of being unable to cope with the growing demand for health care.
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28 Jun 01
Ulster Unionist MP Jeffrey Donaldson has claimed that unionists will lose out to nationalists as a result of proposals from the Hayes Review of health and social services in Northern Ireland.
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28 Jun 01
The controversy over the future of public services continued to rage this week with warnings that Tony Blair's plans for widespread private sector involvement to drive up standards could become '...
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28 Jun 01
Ministers took a hard line on spending this week, warning that improved funding levels for departments would be matched by tougher government targets.
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21 Jun 01
The government intends to give the private sector fixed-term contracts to manage schools and more 'sponsorship opportunities' under a legislative programme designed to place more pressure on public...
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21 Jun 01
Combating racism in the medical profession should be a key performance indicator for NHS trusts, and chief executives should be held responsible if they fail, the King's Fund said this week.
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21 Jun 01
A new rail safety authority to replace the overstretched and understaffed railway inspectorate is likely to emerge from the soul-searching following the Paddington rail disaster.
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21 Jun 01
Health care unions have welcomed government plans to issue 'two strikes and you're out' warnings to violent and abusive patients.
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14 Jun 01
Labour's big idea for local government, directly elected mayors, has flunked a big test and flunked it badly.
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14 Jun 01
Frontline First is to be the Labour government's renewed watchword as it pursues its root-and-branch reform of the public services.
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14 Jun 01
The British Medical Association has warned the government that it must provide billions of pounds if it is to recruit the extra 100,000 doctors needed to meet European Union rules on working hours.
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7 Jun 01
The London Borough of Brent has become one of the first councils to allow staff transferred under outsourcing deals to retrieve their local government pension with backdated benefits.
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7 Jun 01
Patients are to be encouraged to make their voice heard in the debate over how the health service is to be run.
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7 Jun 01
Labour's plans to increase dramatically the number of doctors in training could be severely hampered by a shortage of medical academics, the British Medical Association warned this week.
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31 May 01
The British Medical Association has thrown its weight behind plans to check doctors' fitness to practise after the General Medical Council decided to press ahead with its proposals.
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31 May 01
The NHS Confederation is to investigate the number of managers needed to implement the government's modernisation plans.
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31 May 01
Northern Ireland Assembly members have dubbed senior hospital managers 'fat cats' after nearly half of all pay awards exceeded ministerial caps.
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31 May 01
As we enter the final week of the election campaign there are two key questions: can William Hague succeed in his aim of getting the election focus firmly on the issue of Europe, and will it make any...
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24 May 01
The Royal College of Nursing's annual conference has narrowly backed a motion condemning NHS trusts and recruitment agencies that make up staffing shortfalls by hiring nurses from abroad.
19 Jul 01This week's damning report into the deaths of children at the Bristol Royal Infirmary is the first of four inquiries into the health service's handling of complaints against doctors.
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