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Figure skating without ice
Reference cost data that should reveal all never discloses full story
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Giant gorilla in their midst
For a primeval swamp, New England isn't a bad place to be in mid-October: the trees are trumpeting their extraordinary colours against a bright blue sky.
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It's a dog's life as CHCs refuse to lie down and die
Thumbing through my copy of the NHS plan I notice I did not even tick, asterisk or otherwise (*! ! ? *) mark paragraph 10.27, where it should have boasted a signpost: 'Here be dragons.' Instead, under the bland heading 'Scrutiny of the NHS', it notes: 'The power to refer ...
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At face value
The team guide to communication By John Middleton Radcliffe Medical Press Ltd 213 pages £19.95
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Take the shock out of the future
Business planning for healthcare management Second edition By Carolyn Semple Piggott Open University Press 164 pages £18.99
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The long and winding road
Race, culture & ethnicity in secure psychiatric practice Working with difference Edited by Charles Kaye and Tony Lingiah Jessica Kingsley 284 pages £18.95 paperback
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Milburn tells trusts to stand by beds for national count
A one-day census to count the number of critical care, general and acute beds nationally takes place tomorrow under the orders of health secretary Alan Milburn.
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Cost index sparks familiar rows on data
The NHS index of reference costs has come under attack for its use of faulty data and a 'continued lack of sophistication' in the way costs are measured.
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Gardening leave 'inadequate system for solving disputes'
Senior NHS managers, many of whom are living with the threat of suspension because their face no longer fits, need a formal procedure for when things go wrong.
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New pay deals for junior doctors should force down excessive hours
The announcement that 30,000 junior doctors are to benefit from higher pay deals from tomorrow will encourage trusts to reduce the excessive hours they work.