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It is hardly surprising that over the years Monitor has grown a pretty thick skin. It is essential protection when every waking hour brings accusations that this column is penned by a cynical has-been with no appreciation of the all-pervading shiny benefits that modernisation is bringing to our beauteous NHS.
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Divergent care funding leaves England lagging
MPs have challenged health secretary Alan Milburn over the government's refusal to fund free personal care for nursing home residents in England, leaving them worse off than their counterparts in Scotland.
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Nurses call for huge extension of their powers to prescribe
Nurses have called for a huge extension of powers to prescribe a range of medicines - including controlled drugs.
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Days like this
A survey of district general managers has found 78 per cent do not think the internal market reforms will tackle the NHS's funding problems,50 per cent say the reforms have diverted their energies from running the NHS and 25 per cent do not believe the changes will benefit patients.Philip Hunt, ...
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Tears for fears
With chief executives running around in circles trying to meet the demands of the modernisation agenda, no wonder so many posts go unfilled. Laura Donnelly takes a reading of the top people's gloomometer
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The foresight sagas
The weather affects patterns of sickness, so predicting it can help the health service plan for outbreaks of flu and other illnesses. Lynn Eaton reports
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Gin and bear it: upbeat in the face of adversity
Alan Randall from Eastbourne Hospitals trust was the only chief executive to speak to HSJ on the record about the demands of his job. He is surprisingly upbeat about working in a role which is both 'knackering and exhilarating'.
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Gold blend
Kathy Doran's mix of civil service and NHS experience should see her refining 'the art of the possible' in her new job as NHS director of primary care.Alison Moore reports
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Handle with care
How the NHS treats its workforce is now seen as central to recruiting and retaining staff.The health service is on notice to deliver.Ann McGauran reports
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'Cutting corners, cutting children'
The organ retention scandal saw a public apology from the chief medical officer last week as, yet again, the medical profession stands accused of acting with arrogance and insensitivity. Paul Stephenson reports
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Putting the records straight
'In the absence of an adequate system to record and monitor the numbers and circumstances of deaths, the detection of Shipman's high numbers of deaths was dependent on the chance of observations of individual practitioners or medical referees. . . they [medical referees] only have their own memories to help ...
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THE PERSUADERS
Name: Sian Griffiths OBE Job: Director of public health, Oxfordshire health authority; president elect, Royal College of Physicians' faculty of public health medicine.
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Stiff warning to the minister as he runs into trouble with bill stickers
In their first week back at Westminster in 2001 MPs spent 10 hours of prime time discussing the NHS, mostly on the second reading of the Health and Social Care Bill. Yet I doubt if any of their words, wise or foolish, will have the same impact as that shocking ...