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Birthday greetings to the one they love
Well, what a week. Hardly a dry eye in sight by the time the Great and Good emerged from Westminster Abbey after the service to celebrate 50 years of the NHS. 'I felt very proud just to be there,' one health minister told me, grateful to be in the right ...
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Hospital death rates
How useful are clinical performance measures? And will they prevent such tragedies as the Bristol baby deaths case? John Appleby reports
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Adding weight to measures
Health secretary Frank Dobson put quality at the 'heart of the NHS' in a warmly received speech, strongly reaffirming the government's commitment to the current financing of the service.
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First thoughts on A First Class Service
Senior figures in healthcare were quick to respond to health secretary Frank Dobson's proposals on quality.
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NHS chiefs told to answer back
Chief of health authorities and trusts were urged in a health service circular to respond to the quality consultation document A First Class Service. The main elements are:
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Recruitment dive
Promises outlined by health secretary Frank Dobson for the next 50 years would not materialise unless the acute nursing recruitment and retention crisis was halted, Royal College of Nursing general secretary, Christine Hancock warned.
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A 50th birthday resolution for the NHS: treat staff and users as adults
The issues for debate during the NHS's 50th anniversary concern its core values: professionalism, consumerism and the notion of the public sector.
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Local authority chiefs take less from the kitty
I am wholly in favour of top managers in the public services being properly paid, but 'Fair shares of the kitty' (cover feature, pages 24- 27, 25 June), in examining NHS pay levels, claimed that local authorities 'pay their chief executives as generously, if not more generously, than NHS chief ...
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Adapting and improving Scottish blood service
I read with interest your News Focus, 'In similar vein' (page 16, 18 June), and would like to clarify the strategy proposals put forward for the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service.
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Questions about HAs and health promotion
I agree wholeheartedly with Pam Cooper (Letters, 4 June) that health promotion specialists, by virtue of their experience in working across agency boundaries for many years, have the potential to make a major contribution to the development of health improvement programmes and primary care groups, given the organisational position of ...
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Together we can share responsibility for mental health
To allow mental health services to be 'single parents', as Matt Muijen recommends (Community Spirit, 21 May), is to condemn service users to a continuation of the nightmare that is much of current mental health provision in the inner city: disconnected services, dispirited staff and a blame culture in the ...
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Is the health service flawed or do HSJ readers enjoy self-flagellation?
In your 18 June issue, the first 12 stories carried the words 'victim', 'threat', 'attacks', 'doubts', 'revolt', 'marred', 'crisis', 'threatens', 'bad', 'pressure', 'rocks' and 'bully-boy'.
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London Lighthouse shines on for people living with HIV and AIDS
I am writing to object to the headline about London Lighthouse ('Lighthouse nears rocks as consultation rethinks', News, page 7, 18 June).
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Blair's speech: what the conference thought
Karen Caines, director, Institute of Health Services Management
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Flight of the charge brigade
NHS chief executive Sir Alan Langlands has given the clearest signal yet that the comprehensive spending review led by the Treasury, which is due out next week, will rule out charging at the point of access for any NHS services.
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Jarrold urges IHSM probe
The time has come for a fundamental review of the Institute of Health Services Management, former president Ken Jarrold told its annual general meeting.
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Professor predicts that patients will be given control of their care
The NHS of 2023 will be totally patient-focused and have no long waiting times and much waste, the conference was told.
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A handle on harassment
The government is about to launch a campaign against racial harassment to ensure consistent handling of the issue throughout the health service, including by independent contractors.
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Puzzling it out
When Tony Blair last addressed the annual conference of what was then the National Association of Health Authorities and Trusts, he said Labour would dismantle the internal market. He also pledged to avoid 'major upheaval'.