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Getting back on its feet
Turning the NHS around has been likened to steering a supertanker: you can't just change things overnight, because the ship has a momentum all its own.
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Two dozen of the best: the team
The 24-member performance team, chaired by public health minister Yvette Cooper, includes some real heavyweights, not least:
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How to bring down waits
Staff at London's University Hospital Lewisham hospital have slashed the average wait for a dermatology appointment from 48 to 13 weeks. They compared the number of routine and urgent slots with numbers and types of referrals - and found there were too few routine appointments available.
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Turning up the heat
Proposals from an expert group on critical care are already looking ahead to the service demands of next winter. And there's money available, too. Kaye McIntosh reports
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Women offenders 'victims of shambolic special hospitals'
Most women in high-security hospitals should not be there. They are the victims of a 'shambolic' system that has failed to provide them with more appropriate care, the Commons health select committee has heard.
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Religious conversion aids A&E
A chapel is being converted into a minor injuries unit at Worcester Royal Infirmary to relieve pressure on the accident and emergency department.
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Days like this
Taskforce to rally support. . .London reforms warning. . .Cook's Wales challenge. . .Trust extensions mooted. . .Poll tax idea resisted
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When it's time to get even
A pioneering scheme offering support for staff with mental health problems has put one trust ahead of the rest on employment opportunities. Laura Donnelly looks at the scheme in the light of last week's guidance by the Department of Health
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The cost of equality
The Department of Health guidance spells out the extent to which organisations are expected to invest resources to adjust workplace and employment arrangements: 'to spend at least as much on making a replacement as what would be needed to recruit and train a replacement'. It also lists practical ways to ...
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Vacuum task
With continuing uncertainty about the long-term future of devolved government, the furious pace of reform in the Northern Ireland health service has juddered to a halt. Lyn Whitfield reports
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Bevan can wait
The father of the NHS, Nye Bevan, was against hospitals relying on private charity - so what would he have thought of an attempt in the 21st century to build a children's hospital by public subscription? Tash Shifrin examines the scheme
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The Commons touch
Up and down the country, citizens of the nation have been invited to speak their hearts and minds on the great national plan for health. Kaye McIntosh lends an ear
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HAZy days
Those who have ever wondered exactly what health action zones do will get plenty of answers on Merseyside. Projects - ranging from a 'feel good factory' to roofing in alleyways - are up and running there with the aim of helping people feel better and healthier. The zone, the largest ...
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Milburn finds right answer - to the wrong question
Health secretary must realise number of people waiting is not the issue
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NHS can manage on its own
The government's crusade to rid the NHS of its alleged inefficiencies and unacceptable variations in performance risks overlooking a simple truth: the cure may kill the patient. With the service already in the throes of major change, the announcement of further upheaval - and a national plan to boot - ...
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How Dr Ladyman taught MPs a worthwhile lesson
There are dozens of parliamentary groups, representing well-meaning cross-party interests ranging from abortion and agriculture to world government and youth affairs. I once heard of an MP applying to lead a delegation to Tonga, a lovely spot in the South Pacific. Too late did he discover that it was not ...