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Cottage hospital wins reprieve
A cottage hospital earmarked for closure has been granted a reprieve by proposals to cut costs through pooling health and social service budgets.
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Quarter of GPs have not planned for millennium bug
An NHS Executive survey has revealed that at least 25 per cent of GPs have made no plans to make their practice systems year 2000 compliant. 'We are getting quite concerned about this, especially as the real figure is probably a lot higher,' said a spokeswoman. A health service circular, ...
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Private contractors tighten hold on hospital food
Hospital food is increasingly provided by private contractors, a survey of the catering industry shows.
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Days like this
Ministers consider 'care test' for elderly people... Cot deaths increase... Local authority experts accuse government on public health...
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Ministering with Milburn
As a PCG chief executive and soon-to-be ordained Church of England vicar, Dr Meg Gilley sees no conflict between rationing services and her religious beliefs.
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'A strange woman': Dobson on Widdecombe
'She would like to give me a hard time, but she doesn't succeed. Everybody would agree she is a strange woman. I think that John Maples (her predecessor) wasn't very aggressive, but he was actually trying to do what (William) Hague claims he's
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Fizzing and buzzing with ideas
Alan Carpenter strongly believes his sideways move into the chief executive's job at Somerset Coast PCG is the way forward.
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'I'm not a hand-wringer': the Dobson guide to management
'My general approach in life is that I respond to encouragement rather than criticism and I think most other people do. I think most people in the NHS are very dedicated, and trying to get the best out of them has got to be my task.
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Banking on listening skills
Former bank manager Paul Cookson has more than most riding on the success of PCGs. He is one of the handful of people from outside the NHS to be appointed as a PCG chief executive.
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Managers in the dark
Many senior managers simply do not know whether their trust meets service standards, including national targets on hospital admissions and discharges and speed of treatment, the survey shows.
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PCGs: unnatural creatures
Though primary care groups may be based on 'natural communities', they are not natural organisations, Sir Duncan says.
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Eat, drink and be merry
Eat, drink and be merry - but try not to complete the quote. It is important to do something to mark the first day of the New NHS - and what better news could there be than that pleasure and enjoyment are good for the health? It is a message ...