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Ombudsman hits out at Internet relegation
A furious row has broken out between the health service ombudsman and the NHS Executive over the circulation of ombudsman's reports.
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A year to get in gear
The ombudsman has warned that NHS trusts have a year to complete investigations - or risk him stepping in before procedures have been exhausted .
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Smoking targets too low: MPs
A scathing report on the tobacco industry from the Commons health select committee has condemned the government for failing to match antismoking rhetoric with action.
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Days like this
Paediatric practice warning. . .Lab staff 'deserting'. . .'Airline booking system'. . .No 10's reform fears. . .Dinner-cash dearth. . .Data doubts
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Heading for a change
The fourth article on the government's modernisation programme looks at the work of the professions modernisation action team. Its brief is 'to increase flexibility in training and working practices and remove demarcations, in the context of major expansion of the healthcare workforce'.
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Professional scrutineers
The professions modernisation action team is chaired by health minister John Denham.
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Towards good practice
A highly motivated workforce equals high-quality patient care, says the RCN. Key motivators are 'proper' financial rewards and good human resource policies such as family-friendly working. But equally important to nurses is access to professional development and training.
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'X'marks the split
Unison is rethinking its relationship with the Labour Party and there are signs it may be moving towards a more oppositional stance. Tash Shifrin reports
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View from the delegates
Scepticism about the government's Budget cash injection and worries about staffing levels were widespread, on and off the conference floor.
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Buddy byes
Actor Tony Robinson led a fulsome tribute to general secretary Rodney Bickerstaffe, who is retiring at the end of the year.
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Bark versus bite
As the media bays for the blood of incompetent medical staff, the Commission for Health Improvement took to the road and found itself under pressure to offer reassurance about its role. Seamus Ward reports
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The way that you do it
Most questions at the CHI roadshow concerned the operation of reviews. Gillian Bean, from a local patient support group, asked how CHI proposed to gather the opinions of organisations such as hers.
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Politicians would do well to be as forthright as WHO
Ministers' vision of the NHS should be as open as the World Health Report
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Sticky wicket for jambusters
Imaginative thinking must be the hospital menu planner's bread and butter
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Data protection for managers
It is remarkable that managers in the NHS and the private sector do not know what their doctors are doing and that trust boards sail along in ignorance of consultant activity levels and the variations therein. How can health authorities and insurers manage these employees in a manner consistent with ...
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WEB WATCH
Remember Alasdair Liddell? He jacked in his job as planning director at the NHS Executive to go off and work for a dot. com. If you're wondering what he's up to these days, he's a director of iMPOWER, 'the provider of choice for online solutions to enable the citizen, entrepreneur ...
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A Rubicon a day keeps Al's problems at bay
Iwas talking the other evening to a friend who is taking a new interest in health politics. What about the NHS making more use of the private sector, he asked. 'That's a Rubicon which Blair and Milburn are not keen to cross unless they have to, ' I explained. 'It's ...