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Just keep it simple, stupid
Everywhere you look, performance measures are sprouting as the control freaks in Whitehall village seek to oversee every aspect of NHS activity. The old Soviet Union tried to exert this degree of control before the collapse of communism: it failed.We should learn from the comrades to keep it simple.
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Mirror, mirror on the wall, is Lenin or Liam the most risk-averse of them all?
Talk of health department supremo Nigel Crisp being on TV! Last week there was so much public health news around that it was the chief medical officer, Professor Liam Donaldson, who was scarcely off the silver screen.
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Let's drink to that
Fears that the concordat between the NHS and the private sector will lead to privatisation are unfounded. It is more likely to be the nationalisation of private medicine, says Joan Higgins
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Labouring under delusions
In the 1940s health minister Aneurin Bevan retained private practice and NHS pay beds, which represented everything he opposed, as the price of establishing the NHS.But when Barbara Castle became social services secretary in 1974, she launched an all-out assault on private practice, the consultant contract, NHS pay beds and ...
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Models for partnerships
Various models for public-private partnership are envisaged. For elective care, the concordat suggests that primary care groups and primary care trusts could rent accommodation from the private sector but use NHS staff, on their normal contractual terms, to deliver the service. Or a trust might 'sub-contract' the provision of a ...
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More frills than skills
Patients love the trappings of private treatment, says Anne Christie, but they may be less safe than in the NHS
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When push comes to shove
Health authorities'powers are no match for the influence of clinical professionals when it comes to changing maternity care.Louise Locock and Sue Dopson explain
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Honour high
Many of those who have played a key role in delivering the NHS modernisation agenda found their work recognised in the new year honours.
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High risks, scarce talent leave NHS fighting to fill top jobs
One in four top NHS jobs is vacant - and the gaps at the 'top table' of management mirror recruitment concerns at trusts across the country, HSJ sources have warned.
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Heartlands trust denies 'turbulence'in wake of chief executive departure
Chair of Birmingham's Heartlands and Solihull trust Paul Castle has denied that the trust is facing major internal management difficulties following the departure of former chief executive Robert Naylor to run University College Hospital trust in London.
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Hospitals prepare for the worst as they enjoy 'no flu bug' respite
A spot-check survey by HSJ of 30 of the busiest general hospitals around the country has revealed that, with no flu epidemic, few have experienced major problems - yet.
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DoH gives £700m push to IT roll-out
An additional £700m is to be allocated to NHS information technology over the next three years to support the implementation of the targets set out in the NHS plan.
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In brief: Lord Hunt
Junior health minister Lord Hunt has announced a capital investment programme of around £75m to be made in North West region's four centres for specialist heart surgery over the next 10 years. Priority will be given to a new centre for surgery at Blackpool Victoria Hospital.
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In brief: Joint consultants' committee
The joint consultants' committee has claimed that the General Medical Council's plans for revalidation could deter doctors who are not in practice from returning to the profession. It is proposing a retainer system to allow doctors not practising to remain on the register.
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In brief: Northern Ireland Ambulance Service
The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service has been given a national award for bravery, for acts of outstanding courage and heroism.The Ambulance Service Institute's bravery award medal has never been presented to an entire ambulance service before.
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In brief: Multiple Sclerosis Society
The Multiple Sclerosis Society has condemned as 'breathtaking bungling' the announcement by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence that no decision on the drugs beta interferon and glatiramer acetate will be made before July 2001. NICE said new evidence had come to light which needed to be taken into account.