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Dr Peter Kennedy: 'It used to take seven years to do something about colleagues with nicknames like 'Terminator' and '007'''
Concept: 'The term is new, but the concept is not - it is about the collective responsibility of chief executives and clinicians. The new emphasis is on increasing the development of information on clinical outcomes and performance and handling that information in an open manner with the public.'
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Louise Boden: 'It is a big sea change - right, but difficult'
Concept: 'I am delighted about clinical governance. It is long overdue. Relationships will be much stronger. It is going to make it necessary for there to be much more dialogue than may have been the case in some places.'
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People need reassurance they will not be 'struck off' for raising concerns
The complex clinical governance agenda is further complicated by the (welcome) emphasis on involving patients and the wider public in the debate. It is, however, one thing to espouse this as desirable, another thing entirely to make it a reality.
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Real democracy demands a willingness to listen to genuine local voices
The launch of the King's Fund's 'Citizen Participation' programme last month had all the trappings of an exciting step forward for public involvement in decision making. Sadly, the content was old and weary, and little more than an attempt to promote democracy by focus group.
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In brief
MPs from all three major parties have written an open letter to junior health minister John Hutton expressing concern that the government may discourage NHS funding of beta interferon. They want the National Institute for Clinical Excellence to draw up multiple sclerosis treatment guidelines 'as a matter of urgency'.
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Health minister John Denham has ordered a three-month public consultation on proposals to merge Hull and Holderness Community Health trust and East Yorkshire Community Healthcare trust. Meanwhile, ministers have approved the merger of Bedford and Shires Health and Care trust with South Bedfordshire Community Healthcare trust on 1 April. Durham ...
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Doctors at Guy's Hospital, London, are angry over growing rumours that it will be among the first to opt out of health authority control. 'It is a matter of substantial embarrassment to most of us that the professor of surgery, Ian McColl, is talking about Guy's opting out as though ...
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Gloucestershire companies have been asked to sponsor local NHS beds, wards, nurses and even whole hospitals in a bid to raise money by Cheltenham and District HA. General manager Jim Hammond has ruled out large neon signs promoting firms at hospital gates, but a 'tasteful advertisement' or 'discreet logo' may ...
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Health secretary Kenneth Clarke has dismissed calls for the Department of Health to take over responsibility for food policy from the Ministry of Agriculture. He told the Commons agriculture committee's inquiry into salmonella in eggs that liaison between the two departments worked well.