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It never rains but it pours
Parliament is awash with legislation - recently passed or in the pipeline - that has enormous implications for the health service. Tash Shifrin reports from an HSJ conference that tried to keep delegates afloat
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Framework must be more than good intentions
But its success depends on attitude changes beyond ministers' control
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So farewell, Casualty Watch
Was its success a factor in government determination to abolish CHCs?
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Talking with dinosaurs
'All proposed guidelines from the royal colleges should be evaluated by NICE to avoid illegitimate job creation and cost inflation'
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THE PERSUADERS
Name: Dame Rennie Fritchie Job: Commissioner for public appointments Style: 'Wonderfully human'scourge of cronyism who 'cares very much about the NHS'.Colleagues say she's 'warm, empathetic'and 'absolutely fantastic - everyone falls under her spell', though she has been 'hard-nosed and tough' in pursuing allegations of cronyism.Her scathing report on NHS appointments ...
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Milburn stands to gain as countryside goes to blazes
Did you happen to watch Sunday night's edition of Panorama, Vivian White's film about the state of A&E at St Peter's Hospital outside Chertsey in affluent Surrey? I mention it to contrast its tone with some of the weekend's other media reporting on the NHS as election day approaches.
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Nurse care on trial returns verdict of 'not proven'
Although randomised controlled trials are the rule for new drugs, they are less in evidence when novel procedures are being introduced - and a positive rarity when testing major organisational change.
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Office conflict takes its strain
The NHS suffers a double dose of the problems associated with long hours spent at the ubiquitous computer terminal.
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Genome giant spells out vision of brave new world
The annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science was dominated this year by matters genetic - no surprise, given that it came so soon after the publication of the draft sequence of the human genome.
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On the shelf
Hospital mortuaries are not subject to mandatory inspection and have been under-resourced for years.Now specialists warn that Bedford Hospital's 'bodies on the chapel floor'scandal could easily happen elsewhere. Barbara Millar reports
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Dead-end job: is pay the real scandal?
After 10 years in the responsible job of a senior anatomical pathology technician,39-year-old Danny Corry is on a salary of just £13,500 a year.Fully qualified, with a diploma in anatomical pathology technology from the prestigious Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene, Mr Corry works from 8am until 4.30pm five ...
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'Colleagues just do not want to know'
Andrew Moultrie took a temporary job in the mortuary at Ninewells Hospital, Dundee - over 14 years ago.Now senior mortuary technical officer, at the top of scale MTO 2, he is on £16,500 and unlikely to progress further.'The only way I could get a regrading would be if we suddenly ...
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Moving the goalposts
A surgical directorate's approach to setting comprehensive targets for consultants has increased the number of patients treated and boosted confidence, say Kath Craig and Bill Thomas