All HAMPSHIRE PCT articles – Page 7
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Agencies should not pay for the working time directive
Your news story 'Agencies cash in on working time limit' (page 2, 22 October) misleads by using the wrong terminology. The split is not between full-time and part-time workers but between workers who are NHS employees and those who are agency employees.
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Happy couples
The government's Partnership in Action green paper spells out closer joint working arrangements between health and social services, including joint budgets. Lynn Eaton finds out how the prospective partners are shaping up
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Joint winter funding is 'lopsided' - Thornton
Inter-agency partnerships to tackle winter pressures will be 'lopsided' unless the government plans a long-term cash injection for social services, NHS Confederation chief executive Stephen Thornton warned last week.
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Red herring
The time has come to overhaul the financing of general practice and abandon the current system of GPs' fees and allowances. Peter Old and colleagues use experience from the Isle of Wight to explain why
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Red herring
GPs' terms of service and fees are set out in the 'Red Book' first published in 1966 as a slim booklet. It now covers 82 sections and about 70 separate fee rates. Angela McCullagh and others say it is time to get rid of it
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Open doors
The public can take guided tours of interesting NHS buildings -both old and new - on heritage open days in September. Barbara Millar explains
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Suppliers to NHS Direct's telephone triage pilot likely to win many of its second-wave contracts
The 35m worth of contracts announced this month for the second wave of the NHS Direct telephone helpline are likely to go to many of the suppliers who provided the initial pilot telephone triage systems.
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The shape of things to come
The NHS regions are being redrawn with effects for the whole of the NHS, and the power of central government.
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Side by side
A specialist mental health worker liaising with general practices can reduce pressure on children's services. Edmundo Neira-Munoz and Derek Ward report on a pilot study
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Side by side
A specialist mental health worker liaising with general practices can reduce pressure on children's services. Edmundo Neira-Munoz and Derek Ward report on a pilot study
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Andrew Riley
has joined South Warwickshire General Hospitals trust as chief executive. He originally trained as a radiographer and held various posts in the NHS before spending a brief spell in the private sector, working for a computer company. He returned to the NHS in 1990 and was most recently acting chief ...
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Fair shares of the kitty?
Are chief executives overpaid? Barbara Millar investigates the controversy surrounding managers' pay
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What they say about primary care groups
Mark Millar, finance director, Suffolk health authority
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Close call
When a health authority is looking for revenue savings, sooner or later its glance will fall on the local cottage hospital. But few such closure plans have been successfully completed, and some have caused HAs more time and effort than the savings justify. In almost every case, the HA has ...
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It cuts both ways
John Maples' list of '101 hospital cuts and closures' must have seemed like such a good idea. Labour made great capital out of dossiers of cuts while it was in opposition and for a day or so the new shadow health secretary seemed bound for similar success.
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Dobson gives go-ahead to regional shake-up
Health secretary Frank Dobson gave the go-ahead this week for a shake-up of NHS regions in London and the south of England.