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Private firm to open 'instant' A&E unit
Patients with minor illnesses and injuries will soon be able to pay £29 to attend private casualty units and avoid long waits at NHS accident and emergency departments, a private healthcare company said last night.
The Guardian 19/08/03
Independent 19/08/03
Private surgery centres 'may destabilise NHS hospitals'
Plans for privately-run "fast track" surgery centres, staffed initially by overseas doctors from South Africa, the US and elsewhere, could destabilise local National Health Service hospitals, the Royal College of Surgeons has warned.
Financial Times 19/08/03
Watchdog steps in over fears of NHS computer disaster
Fears that a £2.3bn scheme to computerise huge sections of the NHS could descend into chaos have prompted the Government's spending watchdog to take the unusual step of reviewing the scheme at its start.
Independent 19/08/03
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