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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 ...
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No kidding
With district general hospitals doing less paediatric work, there are worries that they no longer have sufficient expertise. Is it time for all children to be treated in specialist centres, asks Stuart Smalley
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Taking a pounding
The increasing use of private beds for mental health patients is costing the NHS a fortune and demoralising community services staff. Alan Simpson reports
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No two ways about it
Labour needs to balance the health outcome and service delivery agendas in spending the modernisation money, argues Adrian Towse
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Careers without tiers
A course that teaches nurses to do work normally carried out by surgeons has led to some graduates running their own day-case clinics. Jane Farrell reports
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in person
Stephen Coneys is new director of primary care for Birmingham health authority. A former state registered nurse, he has been working as assistant to the chief executive and head of contractor operation. Mr Coneys, a leading mountaineer, says he has 'experienced and learned from some spectacular failures including frostbite and ...
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CBE honour for CHI chief Homa
Former waiting-list buster and current director of the Commission for Health Improvement Dr Peter Homa has been made a CBE in the Queen's Birthday honours.
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GMC confirms need for doctor reforms
Plans to make doctors prove they are good at their jobs will be unveiled today by the embattled General Medical Council.
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Calls for tougher restrictions on consultants' private undertakings
Consultants should not be allowed to undertake private practice unless they can show that none of their NHS patients are waiting more than three months for hospital treatment, the health select committee heard this week.