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Mike White on politics
'Would an NHS constitution require primary legislation? How would an arm's-length board be accountable? Tricky'
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Barometer: mental health September 2006
Mental health chief executives surveyed for Barometer report high levels of confidence on recruitment of medical, nursing and therapy staff.
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Simon Stevens on long tails and J curves
'Bremmer's book turns in a clever explanation for why things often get worse before they get better'
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Laura Donnelly on honesty and political risks
'Admitting that the NHS does not always offer a 'world-class service' is a high political risk'
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Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on a year of imagination
'I'd like us to look back on a time when people came to a big shed and had 10 minutes with the expert'
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'I say what I think - it can be uncomfortable'
Emergency access czar Professor Sir George Alberti has spent his career as an outspoken agent of change. Here he reveals how he prefers to eschew politeness and tackle controversy
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Barometer: acute trusts jan 2007
Confidence in achieving the 18-week target was high among our panel of acute trust chief executives, with the average figure rising from 6.2 to 6.72 since October 2006.
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Pub fight breaks out over alcohol
Attempts to tackle alcohol abuse in Manchester have angered local publicans.
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Health unions back findings
Chief executives' views mirror closely what Royal College of Nursing and Unison members are saying about the NHS reforms, say the unions' leaders.
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New bill to boost London mayor's health remit
A new bill working through Parliament will give extra powers to the London mayor to support the delivery of better public health in the capital.
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LINks face uphill battle on recruitment
Local involvement networks will struggle to recruit members, patient and public involvement forums have warned.
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Government and unions join policy forum
The government, unions and NHS Employers have committed to a new forum for partnership working.
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Superbug surge
Mentions of Clostridium difficile on death certificates in England and Wales rose by 69 per cent to 3,807 from 2004-05, according to the Office for National Statistics. The rate for deaths involving C difficile in males increased from 23 to 38 per million population in 2005. In females the rate ...
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Anti-sexism guide
The Department of Health and NHS Employers have published best practice guidance on how NHS organisations can develop a gender equality scheme. Trusts will need to comply with a new gender equality duty in April. This requires public sector organisations to show that they treat male and female employees and ...
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Tool to cut delays
The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement has launched an improved version of its No Delays Achiever, a web-based tool to help NHS organisations achieve the 18-week target for time from GP referral to first treatment. More than 140 NHS organisations are registered as users of the free service, which ...
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Addict care boost
The government has allocated £54.3m in capital funding to improve inpatient and residential drug and alcohol facilities. The successful bids for funding include provision for women-only facilities, people with disabilities and those from black and minority ethnic communities.
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Broken pledge to cut red tape
NHS bureaucracy is increasing with a 'staggering' 56 bodies now in place to inspect, monitor and assess the service, a new report from the NHS Confederation says.
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MPs' response to angry nurses leaked
The Labour Party has given MPs a model letter to help them deal with nurses furious at last week's below-inflation pay award.
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RCN wants 'teeth' behind advertising code
Organisations that break the forthcoming NHS code on advertising and marketing should be forced to pay up or lose contracts, the Royal College of Nursing has suggested.