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Stocking's tops
The newly appointed director of the NHS Modernisation Agency takes up her job with a reputation as a thoroughly 'modern'woman at one with the ethos of New Labour. Laura Donnelly reports
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Great white hope
Will the government be able to avoid a politically disastrous 'crisis' this winter - the last before the election? Alison Moore reports that it is putting its hopes on joint initiatives at local level by health and social services
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Seeing more clearly with CARATS
The success of the community assessment, rehabilitation and treatment scheme (CARATS) in Rotherham has shown how plans aimed at reducing unnecessary admissions and increasing early discharge can help in the long term, as well as relieving pressure at critical times.
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Outmoded recalcitrance is costing NHS the earth
Refusal to engage with environmental issues must be addressed - now
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Capital reminder of PFI perils
Commons health committee probe may offer much-needed perspective
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Fleet-footed 'Billy'Milburn faces down the ballet-hoo
It's usually water off a duck's back to me. But I would not deny that Alastair Campbell can be a pretty rough hooligan when it comes to trying to bully reporters or their editors with a dawn phone call. In the week of the Milburn 'concordat' with the private sector, ...
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Lost and confused
Little is known about the needs of people entering nursing and residential homes. Research suggests that the NHS may be failing them, report Karin Janzon, Stella Law and colleagues
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Questionnaire and answer sessions
Information was collected on all publicly-funded admissions to residential or nursing care in both boroughs over a three-month period. With the written consent of clients or their carers, a detailed questionnaire was completed on each individual at the point of assessment, by the client's social worker or care manager. The ...