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New emphasis on leadership
The NHS needs a leadership drive aimed at all team leaders, at whatever level - that is likely to be a key recommendation of the staff involvement taskforce's report, due to be published in July.
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Public health jobs shake-up
The much-anticipated public health white paper will include a shake- up of the role of public health professionals, public health minister Tessa Jowell revealed.
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How delegates voted
61 per cent did not believe PCGs, local health groups or local healthcare co-operatives would make a real difference or improvement in their first year. But in the second year this fell to 27 per cent, with 49 per cent confident PCGs would make a real improvement.
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Postcode rationing must go, says Rawlins
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence will 'end post-code prescribing', its chair, Professor Sir Michael Rawlins pledged.
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Mental health shake-up 'will boost staff morale'
The architect of the government's forthcoming service framework for mental health said he hoped it would set new standards of user and carer involvement, and that it would lead to raised morale among staff.
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Private sector must improve, says Alan Duncan
The private healthcare sector should help pay for the training of doctors and nurses, said Conservative health spokesman Alan Duncan.
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Done the job, won the respect Dobson's new-found goodwill towards managers reflects hard work
The undercurrent of antagonism towards managers that used to emanate from health secretary Frank Dobson's speeches was strikingly absent from his address to the NHS Confederation's conference. He oozed goodwill and emphasised that his customary messages of admiration for NHS staff included managers, too.
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WEB WATCH MARK CRAIL
Why climb Everest? Even George Mallory could only suggest, 'Because it is there.' The Everest Extreme Expedition has a better reason: it says the mountain presents 'a unique laboratory setting', offering 'new insights on the human body and its implications for other environments or disease states'.
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Hard-working volunteers do an excellent job
As a new CHC chief officer who has worked in the NHS for 25 years, I have been amazed at the amount of work going on representing the public interest both individually and collectively on a regional basis. CHCs all aim to be effective. We prepare annual plans, set objectives ...
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Change is needed but there's no lack of bite
Chris Dabbs' interesting article arguing the need for radical changes to enable community health councils to meet the challenges of the new NHS was undermined by the bizarre spin you gave the story on your cover.
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A rational system with rationing?
The World Health Organisation has pictured an ideal health system, funded through taxation, free at the point of delivery, protected from the inequities and inefficiencies of the market, and capable of rationing resources according to need (news, page 4, 13 May).
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Key role for the NHS and social services in challenging racism in the wake of the Lawrence case
The aftermath of the Lawrence inquiry leads us to ask how the NHS and social services can work together to overcome racism and promote racially 'healthy neighbourhoods'. We should all take responsibility for addressing race equality issues.
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They know it's bad for them but they carry on... Education will never stop unhealthy lifestyles
Three decades before New Labour, the mantra 'Education, education, education' was coined by US President Lyndon Johnson to emphasise the thrust of his Great Society dream. His attempts to radicalise the welfare system were partly thwarted by his Vietcong adversaries, who also wanted to reshape their society.
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'It's the unknown that is difficult': waiting at the airport
Dr Philip Monk, consultant in public health with Leicestershire health authority, had 48 hours' notice that a plane with refugees from the Balkans would be arriving at East Midlands airport.
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Lying in the wolf's mouth: an exile of terror
Bedrije Heta fled to the UK from Kosovo when the police threatened to kill her husband. For the past year the couple and their three daughters have found sanctuary in London. But she fears for her relatives back home in Pristina. 'In our language we say they are lying in ...