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Birmingham HA appoints Scots NHS chief
Geoff Scaife, chief executive of the NHS in Scotland for the past seven years, is to become the new chief executive of Birmingham health authority.
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Isn't the BMA great? It takes care of poor struggling doctors who wouldn't be able to look after themselves, and worries about wider issues too - like whether they are being paid enough, and whether the financial resources are in place and whether there is enough money being provided to ...
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MP goes to war over 'unsafe'hospital huts
An MP is highlighting the 'unsafe' condition of Second World War huts at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital in a renewed bid to have them replaced by purpose-built facilities.
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£630m set aside for winter care
The winter emergency services team is planning 40 visits to 'key health and social care communities' as part of plans aimed at averting the annual NHS 'winter crisis', junior health minister Gisela Stuart announced last week.
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Days like this
Community health councils should have contracts specifying their role in monitoring and delivering healthcare, according to South West Thames regional chair Baroness Cumberlege. 'The initiative for the shape the contracts take must come from the CHCs themselves, 'she said. Reaction has been mixed, with some CHCs feeling contracts could give ...
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IT looks like trouble
The NHS's approach to information technology is in the dock yet again with the news that new systems will be used for the roll-out of NHS Direct. Lynne Greenwood reports
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Siren voices
London Ambulance Service, which handled over a million calls in the year to March 2000, is cautious about plans to establish links with NHS Direct.
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Up, up and away
Docbusters wanted. Must be extremely skilled, enjoy travelling extensively at short notice and capable of inspiring the confidence of beleaguered trusts.
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Picking up the pieces - BAMM case studies
Case 1.'I think you've got a problem here' A medical director and BAMM member got a call from a trust chief executive who had concerns about a clinician's performance.He drove 300 miles on a Sunday, and spent hours that evening ploughing through case notes.
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This man wants to lose his job
The GP charged with spreading good practice in primary care is looking forward to redundancy - it will mean his job is done, writes Laura Donnelly
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A little bit of horse sense
War wounds were compared and farmyard analogies coined at a joint health and local government conference on inspections. Alex Klaushofer listened in
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How the collaboratives work
The team has compiled a handbook of good practice - on topics such as access, capacity and demand management, triage, and coronary heart disease care.
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A label of 'dual diagnosis' is being given to people with mental health problems who misuse alcohol and drugs. But will this improve their care, asks Claire Laurent
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Double trouble: drug use makes its mark
Of 270 new patients who presented to Luther Street during the year of the project,34 were identified as having a dual diagnosis - just 13 per cent.But when the centre looked at its total current population of about 1,500 homeless people, it found that 52 per cent met the dual ...
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Going for growth, but does it all add up?
Extra beds are welcome, but forthcoming guidance must tie up loose ends
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Hello, earth to King's Mill. . .
Corners of the NHS are seemingly untouched by the digital revolution
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Seeking clarity with confusion
The NHS plan advocates 'a renewed public service ethos' and asserts the importance of trust in the dealings between patients and staff. Regrettably, there has been precious little evidence of either over the past 20 years or so. Public services have been unloved, neglected and denied the needed investment. Staff ...
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Respect the don, and we're not talking Oxbridge
The NHS is a mafia; indeed it could teach the Cosa Nostra a thing or two about controlling people and events. It presents itself as a democratic, locally accountable and efficient social service. All of these things are true to a greater or lesser degree (usually lesser), but only insofar ...