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Time to put the brakes on
Is the traffic-light system as unfair as the much-loathed efficiency index?
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Bleating up the wrong tree
Conventional wisdom and government policy assume that there is a 'shortage' of nurses in the NHS and the remedy for this malaise is that remuneration should be increased. Perhaps this conclusion is a nonsensical mixture of dubious logic and inadequate evidence and nurses are not underpaid.
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Have a NICE day in Nice - it's time for a winter break
Last week was a NICE week and a Nice week, whereas this week will mainly be a Nice week. All the evidence is that it will not be such a nice one on the NHS front, let alone the European one. But health secretary Alan Milburn has chosen to place ...
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Green with envy?
It is already possible to predict where health authorities will be ranked in the government's new traffic-light system. But is it fair, ask Chris Deeming and John Appleby
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Court action looms over DoH anti-flu drug guidance
A company which distributes an anti-flu drug that is a tenth of the price of Relenza is considering legal action against the Department of Health after accusing it of restraint of trade.
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Traffic-light doubts grow as 80% of red-alert HAs appear in North
A preliminary 'traffic light' system ranking English health authorities in terms of performance and effectiveness exposes a sharp North-South divide, with the vast majority of poor-performing 'red light' organisations in the North, this week's HSJ reveals.
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Winter cash unlikely to avert crisis as PM admits problems
NHS managers got an early taste of winter pressure this week as prime minister Tony Blair admitted that some problems would be 'inevitable' over the coming months.
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'Fat czar' brought in to tackle overweight Scots
A government weight-watcher is to be appointed after a survey of health in Scotland showed around three-quarters of Scots were overweight.
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Pressure is on
To overcome the shortage of physiotherapists, the UK is increasingly reliant on recruiting from overseas. But can it be done ethically? James Buchan reports
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Stealing the show
Three-quarters of all new hospitals are built through PFI - so why is it that the public sector's payback costs are clouded in secrecy? John Mair battles for exposure
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Rights article catches NHS on the hop
When the Human Rights Act came into force on 2 October, trusts braced themselves for test cases on a variety of fronts.
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Patients' negligence claims meet with failure
Negligence claims by patients go on unabated, but as two recent cases demonstrate, they can be fought successfully where it can be shown that there is insufficient evidence that the injuries were caused by negligence.