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Going to the devil
A significant proportion of managers are also nurses - but great suspicion still exists between the two groups.Andrew Cole delves into the background to the distrust
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Wide open to criticism
Sometimes, it seems, managers go out of their way to live up to the stereotypes that nurses attach to them.
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On the horns of a dilemma
Shared governance - a US term describing a process of involving staff at all levels in decision-making - could be one way of breaking the stand-off between nurses and managers.
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Level crossings
Ever since Florence Nightingale arrived in the Crimea, nurses have been involved in managing health services. But these days nurses who take on managerial responsibility have a more ambiguous role.
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Without prejudice
What do managers want from nurses and vice versa? Chief executive Alan Randall and nursing adviser Eileen Shepherd give some pointers
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Care to talk?
A conversation with a nurse revealed the dire state of care for elderly patients on her ward.Jayne Lingard wonders why she feels she can do nothing about it
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Whose turn now?
Contested decisions Priority setting in the NHS By Chris Ham and Shirley McIver King's Fund 85 pages £10.99
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Five angles on catching a killer
HSJ monographs Cancer services Specialist team from Royal Marsden Hospital, London 22 pages £12.99 To order call 01483-303017
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Comedy of errors and misinformation
Management in Health Care By Neil Wheeler and Diana Grice Stanley Thornes 209 pages £19
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NHS claim record scrutinised
The questions of whether legal aid funds suitable cases, and of how well the NHS performs in defending and settling claims, should become clearer when the National Audit Office publishes a long-awaited report.
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Ruling will increase GMC workload
The General Medical Council, already beset by a large increase in complaints, lost a judicial review just before Christmas which will mean an even bigger workload in future.
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Aid boost for tribunal claimants
Health boards in Scotland should brace themselves for more employment tribunal claims - and more successful ones.
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In brief: House of Lords
Last year the House of Lords held that parents cannot claim the costs of bringing up a healthy but 'unwanted' child, born as a result of medical negligence - for example, a botched sterilisation. But the court left open the question of what may be claimed when the child is ...
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IT strategy speeds up roll-out
The government's push towards making the NHS more like a 'corporate' body has been strengthened by the revised IT strategy for the health service issued on Monday.
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Experts query hospital rankings data
The launch of a consumer hospital guide ranking hospitals by death rates has sparked attacks on the quality of its data and the workload imposed on the NHS by private publishing company Dr Foster.
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Local strategic partnerships put future of HAZs in doubt
Health action zones could disappear with the government's announcement this week of new local strategic partnerships of public sector, private and community organisations.