National and International News
Breast cancer recall is ordered
More than 2,000 women are being recalled for breast cancer tests after doubts over the quality of images produced by some x-ray equipment.
BBC Health News 14/07/04
Call to publish all hospital-acquired infection rates
The National Health Service still does not have a proper grasp of the extent and cost of hospital-acquired infections and must introduce a mandatory surveillance system to tackle a scourge that is costing an estimated 5,000 lives a year, says the National Audit Office.
Financial Times 14/07/04
C&W wins contract to run NHS e-mail service
Cable and Wireless has won a contract thought to be worth between £50m and £90m to run the National Health Service e-mail service for the next nine years, a deal which also helps settle threatened litigation between EDS, the computer services company, and the NHS. EDS had been threatening to sue the NHS IT programme after Richard Granger, programme director, terminated its previous e-mail contract without compensation.
Financial Times 14/07/04
Different strokes
The NHS and successive Labour governments have failed dismally to recognise the distinct needs of black and ethnic minority patients. John Reid and Trevor Phillips propose a way forward
The Guardian 14/07/04
Parental guidance
Margaret Hodge, the children's minister, is impressed by the Family Links approach to parenting.
The Guardian 14/07/04
The perfect cure
A back-to-work scheme for people claiming incapacity benefit is succeeding where the government has failed.
The Guardian 14/07/04
The quiet revolution
When the first 10 hospitals were granted foundation status earlier this year, it was trumpeted as a major shakeup of health delivery.
The Guardian 14/07/04
Tool to help find new brain drugs
Scientists should get a closer look at the brain in the future
US scientists have developed a tool that, for the first time, monitors live brain activity down to the cellular level.
BBC Health News 14/07/04
A tough line on care
The other British public service that employs almost as many people as Indian railways is being reformed this year. Like the National Health Service, social care involves more than a million workers - but that is where comparisons stop.
The Guardian 14/07/04
Watchdog accuses government of inaction over rise in superbug cases
Hospitals were last night accused by parliamentary spending watchdogs of "an appalling lack of progress" in tackling superbugs and other causes of serious infection in patients.
The Guardian 14/07/04
The Independent 14/07/04
Cheshire and Mersey News
Doctor facing sex attack charges
A FORMER family doctor carried out a number of sex attacks on female patients over a period of 28 years, a court heard yesterday
Liverpool Daily Post 14/07/04
Superbug league tables published
League tables showing which hospitals are faring worst in their battle with the MRSA superbug have been published by the Government.
Liverpool Daily Post 14/07/04
Cumbria and Lancashire News
Baby unit to close
THE special care baby unit at Fairfield Hospital is to be closed.
Bury News 14/07/04
Health scare at jobcentre
THIS office is at the centre of a major health scare.
The building has been closed after staff refused to work there following a spate of serious illnesses including brain tumours, cancers and heart problems.
Blackpool Today 14/07/04
Greater Manchester News
Hospital superbugs out of control
HEALTH service chiefs were accused today of allowing hospital superbugs to run out of control.
Manchester online 14/07/04
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