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Managers feel they lack essential skills for private finance projects
More than 60 per cent of managers involved in private finance initiative projects felt they lacked essential skills needed to cope with the process, according to an Institute of Healthcare Management survey.
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Scots ambulances get priority system after target failures
Scotland's ambulance service is set to introduce a priority despatch system following a National Audit Office finding that just one in three Glasgow ambulances reached a 999 incident within seven minutes, against a target of one in two.
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Andy Biotic wins award for plain-speaking DoH
The Department of Health has won a Plain English Campaign award for a leaflet intended to cut overuse of antibiotics.
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Days like this
Cook backs managers. . . Health Bill. . . Flu hits hospitals. . . Clarke attacks managers. . . £13m to cut waiting lists. . . NHS gets deputy chief
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Toeing the line
'Treatment for those who will benefit' was Alan Milburn's spin on the r-word at NICE's first conference. Kaye McIntosh joined the queues
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The buck stops where?
As the first phase of the inquiry into the Bristol heart babies scandal reaches its end, the emerging picture is more complex than first thought, writes Lyn Whitfield
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Langlands rebukes HFMA as DoH turns the screw on media
NHS chief executive Sir Alan Langlands has rebuked finance directors in the wake of a survey showing that the NHS is set to plunge into deficit this year.
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Scots opposition angered by payout
Scotland's opposition parties have been angered by a decision to pay a senior NHS manager compensation of more than £300,000 after she failed a competence test.
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Death rates ignored 'because of trust status bid'
Dr John Roylance has told the Bristol Royal Infirmary inquiry that he did not investigate concerns about mortality rates in paediatric cardiac surgery because they were raised in connection with the hospital's application for trust status.
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PCGs get backing for drug sponsor deals
GPs and primary care groups have been 'surprised' by 'liberal' guidance on sponsorship deals with drug companies.
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Top managers sign millennium service pledge
Trust and health authority chief executives have been ordered to sign a public 'guarantee' to deliver key services as part of final preparations for the millennium.
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Chief medical officer Professor Liam Donaldson watches staff nurse Damon Harritz Grech demonstrate the advanced clinical information system at Southmead Hospital, Bristol, with patient Mark Wainright.
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In Brief: Commission for Health Improvement
The full membership of the Commission for Health Improvement has been announced.
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In Brief: National Institute for Clinical Excellence
Twenty heads of multiple sclerosis services are to begin a programme of audit and evaluation to help inform the National Institute for Clinical Excellence on standards for MS care. The MS heads of service network is chaired by Professor Alan Thompson, clinical director of neurorehabilitation and therapy services at the ...
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In Brief: Cancer Black Care information centre
Home Office minister Paul Boateng opened the Cancer Black Care information centre in Hackney, east London, on Friday. The centre, a joint initiative between Cancer Black Care and Macmillan Cancer Relief, aims to inform healthcare professionals about cultural issues in cancer care.
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In Brief: Advanced Clinical Information System
A new centre for clinical information at North Bristol trust was opened last week by chief medical officer Professor Liam Donaldson. The trust developed its Advanced Clinical Information System at Southmead Hospital in conjunction with technology partners Compaq and EDS.
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In Brief: Capital Solutions
Healthcare consultancy Capital Solutions, part of Leeds Teaching hospitals trust, has merged with NHS Estates. Kate Priestley, NHS Estates chief executive, said the merger was 'further evidence of NHS Estates being able to connect the centre with the service'. Capital Solution will trade under the NHS Estates banner as part ...
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Minister issues threat to overrule MSPs in row over cash share out
Scottish health minister Susan Deacon looks set to overrule MSPs in a clash over a major reform of the way NHS funds are shared out.
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Chief faces sexual harassment allegations
A trust chief executive has been accused of driving one of his managers out of her job after she rebuffed his sexual advances.
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Going with the grain
Artist Nicola Kerr Bone creates a healing mandala , a symbolic representation of the universe, at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital for world AIDS day. It was made from coloured grains of rice.