Foundation trust applicants
The trusts that can apply immediately to the Office of the
Independent Regulator of NHS Foundation Trusts for authorisation are:
Animal activist faces ban from UK
Laboratory row hits Oxford streets as home secretary threatens US surgeon for allegedly advocating murder.
Protesters pledge dogged fight to victory
Three hundred protesters assembled in Oxford's Broad Street at the weekend in a demonstration against the university's £18m animal testing laboratory.
NHS provider iSoft swift to allay MP’s accounting worries
iSoft, a lead supplier of software to the government's £6bn programme to overhaul the health service, is facing parliamentary scrutiny over its accounting policies.
Hospitals blamed as sex disease figures soar
Chief medical officer will urge reduction in clinic waiting times to fight huge rise in disease rates.
Pub bosses ordered to introduce smoking ban
· Government sets out phased curbs · Secret instructions to leisure chiefs
Shortage of dentists to double by 2011
The shortage of dentists in England will double during the next seven years, according to a review published by the Department of Health yesterday.