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DoH and Macmillan in tandem to deliver cancer care networks
In a bid to help deliver the NHS cancer plan, the Department of Health has teamed up with Macmillan Cancer Relief under a three-year partnership to place cancer lead clinicians at every primary care organisation. So far, 279 have been nominated.
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Deacon ousted from health
Scotland's health minister, Susan Deacon, has been replaced by her deputy, Malcolm Chisholm, as new first minister Jack McConnell loses no time in signalling that health is at the top of his agenda.
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Days like this
Families sue over nurse Allitt. . .NAHAT merger call. . .Performance-related pay for ward sisters. . .Privatisation push. . . Junior doctors'hours
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Sticky labels
When Medway trust became one of the country's reviled 'dirty dozen'no-star establishments, rather than seeing it as a 'failure', the management team drew on widespread support to turn the situation round.Alison Moore reports
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Speed merchants
The improvement in response times at certain ambulance trusts has been described as 'a miracle'.Paul Smith sees the benefits of the simple approach
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Inside the labyrinth
As the Modernisation Agency tours the no-star trusts and conducts dozens of other programmes of change, Laura Donnelly battles her way through the organisation's complex structure in an attempt to pin down its role
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Has Scotland had its chips?
Gillian Kynoch may have a top job - but she's no fat cat.She faces the daunting task of changing the diet of a nation, and, as Barbara Millar discovers, she's a seasoned campaigner
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What if. . .. . . what then?
Comment : Will yet more money make a difference - and make it in time?
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Survival of the fittest
Comment : Re-organisation is proceeding despite bizarre mismatch of staff talent
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Trusts must give staff the chance to use their ideas to resolve problems
Letters : Frontline involvement
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On the side walk
doctors in management : Successive NHS reorganisations have failed to sweeten the doctor-manager relationship.So why should the latest attempts to end adversarial attitudes be any more successful? Mike Pollard reports