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Saddle up, pardner
A lot of people still need convincing that the arranged marriage between local government and the health service will be mutually rewarding. Maura Thompson sat in on their joint conference
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Variable interest
Given a government obsessed, some would say, with inspection in the NHS, what will the Audit Commission's future role in healthcare be? Lyn Whitfield reports
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Terry Hanafin: 'That job's got my name on it'
Terry Hanafin joined the Audit Commission in October from Croydon health authority, where he was chief executive.
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Moving story
An adult placement scheme for residents of a long-stay hospital that is due to close has provoked controversy, writes Colin Wright
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How the scheme will work
'We believe that we shall have some patients placed in the community soon, although the transfer will be incremental rather than a large number transferring at once, ' says Sue Newton, development manager with charity PSS.
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So we're all agreed, then
Dysfunctional boards, power games and cover-ups - there were as many issues as opinions at a seminar on performance, writes Paul Stephenson
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Night in armour
Nurses and doctors are accustomed to working through the night without fanfare, but on millennium eve their hectic schedule was captured for posterity by photographers.
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Shipman shows danger of monitoring becoming ritual
That is the real test for clinical governance and revalidation measures
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Timely attempt to redefine a role
Audit Commission will have to strive harder to maintain its credibility
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How Super Tone delivered a sermon on the mount
'Events, dear boy, events, ' was how Harold Macmillan replied when someone asked the stylish Tory prime minister what kept him awake at night. He's out of fashion now because he failed to tackle those structural economic problems before Mrs Thatcher did. But he'd seen it all and he was ...
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WEBWATCH
Few healthcare organisations in this country have managed to create the sort of virtual professional communities to which the Internet seems so well suited. It will come - but first people have to conquer the reticence that leaves so many discussion forums with enough significant silences to fill a Harold ...
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'Trust me, I'm a doctor'
The conviction of Harold Shipman makes him one of the UK's biggest serial killers. But there is a long history of doctors accused of killing their patients or others. Bernadette Friend reports
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Infamous legacy: Dr John Bodkin Adams
On 18 March 1957 Eastbourne GP Dr John Bodkin Adams was charged with the murder of Edith Alice Morrell.
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The paramedic poisoner: Dr Michael Swango
This year, Dr Michael Swango, in jail in the US for falsifying his professional record to obtain work, will be eligible to be released to a prison halfway house.
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Time is money
A trust which audited the contribution of its volunteers found it was worth thousands. Paddy Browne reports
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Help received from groups and charities
Input from members of registered voluntary organisations was also used in our calculations, along with donations from charitable bodies registered with the voluntary services department.
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Old testament
PCGs are ducking their responsibilities if they cling to the argument that older people are not interested in consultation on services, say Margaret Edwards and Emilie Roberts
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NHS funding
Throwing more money at the NHS in a bid to match health spending in other countries will only create a self-defeating cycle of higher and higher expectations, writes John Appleby