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GPs take charge of £305m health budget today

7:00am Monday 1st April 2013

DOCTORS in south Bucks today take charge of a £305million budget for health services.

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UPDATED: MP: NHS chief threatened me with legal action

5:26pm Thursday 14th March 2013

WYCOMBE MP Steve Baker told the House of Commons this afternoon that an NHS boss has threatened him with legal action.

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Patient's 7 hour A&E wait after test suggested coma risk

9:00am Friday 15th March 2013

A WOMAN was called in urgently to Wycombe Hospital after a test result showed she could be in danger of organ failure or falling into a coma. But she then had to travel half an hour for treatment to another hospital - only to be left with a seven hour wait unmonitored in A&E.

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'I shouldn't have had to take my 15 month-old to two hospitals'

5:50pm Monday 11th March 2013

A DAD has expressed his sheer frustration after having to take his 15 month old son to two different hospitals to be able to see a doctor.

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Wycombe Hospital's plight to be debated in Parliament today

9:32am Monday 14th January 2013

THE plight of Wycombe Hospital is set to go before Parliament once again today, as MP Steve Baker announced he has been granted a debate in the House of Commons on vascular services.

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Unusually high admissions to hospital today prompts appeal

5:22pm Saturday 5th January 2013

STOKE Mandeville Hospital is experiencing an 'unusually high' number of admissions to its accident and emergency centre today, bosses revealed this evening, as they appealed to patients.

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Hospital fundraising group bid final goodbye

8:33am Tuesday 16th October 2012

A HOSPITAL support group has been forced to fold after nearly 40 years of fundraising and volunteering.

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Ex-mayor's ralling cry for campaign ahead of talks

10:41am Wednesday 4th November 2009

A FORMER High Wycombe town mayor has re-issued a rallying cry to residents to get behind the Hand Back Our Hospital campaign ahead of crunch talks with health chiefs at Westminster.

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Health bosses look for NHS directors

8:57am Thursday 15th February 2007

HOSPITAL bosses are looking to recruit members of the community to help revitalise the health service.