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Peak practice
The best in collaborative working and effective care were on display in entries for this year's Health Management Awards. Here, the judges explain how they chose the winners
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Measured response
A new method of measuring efficiency shows the reforms of the early 1990s had a minimal effect on individual hospitals' productivity. Bruce Hollingsworth and colleagues explain
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Points make prizes
A system of priority scoring would be a more equitable way to determine how urgently patients need treatment. Peter Adams reports on a pilot project
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Communal living
The second wave of personal medical services pilots brings a greater degree of flexibility to primary care, but presents challenges for HAs as well, write Richard Lewis and Rigo Pizarro
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Lib Dem attacks NICE's 'hidden' rationing role
The Liberal Democrats' promise to adopt a 'more trenchant oppositionist approach' to the government was delivered in an attack on the National Institute for Clinical Excellence by the party's former health spokesman, Dr Evan Harris.
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In Brief: The NHS working group on continence services
The NHS working group on continence services has reported and ministers are considering its recommendations, said health minister John Hutton. 'We hope to publish the guidance in the near future, ' he added.
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In Brief: DOH spending for support of 'special activities'
The Department of Health spent just over £500,000 providing central support for 'special activities' during the NHS 50th anniversary year in 1998, said health minister John Denham.
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In Brief: Expenditure on external consultants and advisers
Expenditure on external consultants and advisers by the DoH (including the NHS Executive) has halved from £14.4m in the last year of the Conservative government to £7.1m in 1998-99, according to figures revealed by junior health minister Gisele Stuart.