National and International News
BMA heads off GP revolt on contracts
The British Medical Association seems to have headed off a rebellion by family doctors against a new contract which will let them provide services traditionally confined to hospitals, according to a Guardian survey.
Financial Times 16/06/03
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Cancer campaign keeps patients waiting longer
PATIENTS are waiting longer for cancer treatment today than they were three years ago when the Government first made the disease a national priority, one of Britain’s leading hospitals said yesterday.
Times 16/06/03
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Dobson warns of fresh revolt on health reforms
Frank Dobson, the former health secretary, has warned that the appointment of a Scot to run the National Health Service in England will add to Tony Blair's difficulties in pushing through controversial reforms.
Independent 15/06/03
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Fast-track clinics may leave NHS funding empty beds, private hospital group warns
Britain's largest private hospital group has warned the government that the massive expansion planned in both public and private fast-track surgery centres could leave the NHS funding empty beds at a big and unnecessary cost to the taxpayer.
Financial 14/06/06
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Food firms told to join war on obesity
Food manufacturers will be told to reduce fats and sugars in their products as government advisers try to slim down Britons threatening to burden the NHS with obesity-related health problems.
Guardian 16/06/03
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Judge orders mothers to get MMR jab for their children
A High Court judge yesterday ordered two girls aged four and 10 to have the MMR immunisation against the wishes of their mothers.
Independent 14/06/03
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Mental health trusts 'drowning in debt'
Psychiatric care for women and teenagers being severely limited by funding crisis and rising demand
Independent 15/06/03
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NHS charges doing 'little to help poor'
Pregnant women, children and the elderly should lose their automatic right to free prescriptions, but everyone should get free dental check-ups and sight tests, a report from the Social Market Foundation claims.
Financial Times 16/06/03
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Reid wants diversity and choice in NHS
John Reid, the new health secretary, yesterday insisted he was an "arch moderniser" who believed in choice and diversity in the National Health Service.
Financial Times 14/06/03
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Viagra chewing gum is on the way
A new supercharged Wrigley's chewing gum may one day be on the market - containing the active ingredient in the sex-enhancing drug Viagra.
Independent 15/06/03
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Why pushy patients get better care
Pushy, assertive patients who come to the surgery armed with lists of questions are taking more than their fair share of time with the doctor - at the expense of the less articulate.
Guardian 16/06/03
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Cheshire and Mersey News
Reid must master his new brief - Morris
John Reid should stay put as Health Secretary for the foreseeable future after moving into his fourth Cabinet job in a year, new Arts Minister Estelle Morris has said.
Liverpool Echo 14/06/03
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Warning of new revolt over hospitals
Former Health Secretary Frank Dobson has warned of a fresh revolt by Labour backbenchers over foundation hospitals because John Reid, a Scottish MP, has been put in charge of the National Health Service in England.
Liverpool Echo 15/06/03
Chester Chronical 15/06/03
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Cumbria and Lancashire News
£400,000 health centre opened
A £400,000 health centre has begun the work of breathing new life into one of Burnley's most deprived wards
LanchashireEvening Post 14/06/03
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Protest at fluoride move
BLACKBURN and its MP, Jack Straw, have always been opposed to water fluoridation. Blackburn has been a member of North West Councils Against Fluoridation since it began in 1988 when the battle was last fought.
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Greater Manchester News
Body is held at hospital for six days
A HEARTBROKEN daughter had to fight to get her father’s body released in time for his funeral following a mix-up by doctors at Tameside Hospital.
Tameside Advertiser 160/06/03
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