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Lib Dems: beware bringing the local touch to health Any pretence at providing a truly national service would be abandoned
People queued in the street to buy copies of Sir William Beveridge's weighty tome on establishing the welfare state when it was published in 1942; the BBC broadcast its recommendations to Europe in 22 languages. The fanfare greeting the Liberal Democrats' nine-page policy document, Moving Ahead, was a little more ...
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Farewell to internal market folly Did it really exist? And has it gone for good?
It preoccupied the NHS's 1 million staff for years on end. It provoked heated debate among the public - and their implacable suspicion - on a scale rivalled only by the poll tax. Now it's consigned to the dustbin of history it appears not to have had much impact on ...
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In charge - with consensus
Consensus management is emerging as a model for primary care groups. This dangerous trend must be stopped.
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'Forming, storming and norming' our way into a better state of health
Beenstock and Walsh ('Going through the change', 3 September) identify many problems that newly commissioned primary care groups will encounter during their formative period. But PCGs' biggest challenge will be to build themselves into effective teams.
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Potential conflict of interest should rule out co-opting HA finance chiefs on to PCG boards
I was interested to read 'Divide opens over PCG governance' (News, page 3, 20 August), but take exception to Derek Day's comment that he welcomed the paragraph saying senior health authority finance managers could be co-opted on to primary care group boards. I assume he is referring to paragraph 51 ...
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Judge London Ambulance Service on today's record, not years gone by
Your article on the London Ambulance Service's multi-lingual phrasebook and cultural awareness handbook (News Focus, 27 August) unfairly presents them as attempts by a 'beleaguered' service to improve its image.
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Stroke resource pack puts condition on map
Could I congratulate HSJ on two excellent articles on stroke and especially 'Pressure Point' by Carol Cooper (Managers & Medicine, 27 August). She really hits the nail on the head. For too long stroke has been the Cinderella condition. The Stroke Association is pushing for better services for patients, and ...
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CHCs' unique role gives patients a voice at grassroots level without challenging others' contribution
Ian Semmons (Letters, 3 September) is mistaken if he believes that community health council members owe allegiance to any voluntary organisation or local authority. The virtue of CHCs is their independence, which is jealously guarded. But there is really no need for CHCs and the Patients Association to feel they ...
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Catching the drift
Plans for an additional 7,000 doctors and 15,000 nurses could be jeopardised by the continuing trend for working abroad among UK graduates and the shortfall in overseas medical staff coming here. Clare Jinks and colleagues argue that the role of continent
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Hidden talents
You have spent six years training in medicine, then get a reasonable job. You work hard for a number of years, then suddenly your world is turned upside down. There is a revolution and you are forced to work for the rebels, treating the injured. You escape, but fear for ...
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In the blood
Liz Austin joined the NHS as a junior administrative clerk in 1948. Aged 15, she had flirted briefly with the idea of becoming an almoner (a medical social worker attached to a hospital), but her family could not afford to pay for the training. She joined the health service, thinking ...
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Unhappy returns for the NHS at 50
NHS Executive in association with the Doctor-Patient Partnership and the Health Education Authority 64 pages Free
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NHS year 2000 debugging 'on course'
The NHS Executive has hit back at parliamentary criticism of its year 2000 bug efforts, claiming that recent reports from trusts and health authorities show it is 'on course to meet its requirements'.
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HA launches community-wide network pilot
Kingston and Richmond health authority this month launches one of the first of the community-wide network pilots promised by The New NHS white paper.