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Redbridge and Waltham Forest - from one model to another
This area shows the problems of trying to move from one commissioning model to another.
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Warwickshire - one of the biggest rows
Warwickshire has seen one of the biggest rows over the establishment of primary care groups.
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South and West Devon - an amicable process
This is one of the areas where the process of establishing primary care groups has been amicable.
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Enfield and Haringey - geographical obstacles
Enfield and Haringey is an area that illustrates some of the geographical obstacles to setting primary care group boundaries. Ron Singer, chair of Enfield and Haringey commissioning executive, told a recent 'pan-London' conference that after 'meetings, meetings, meetings' the health authority produced an options document that included proposals for five ...
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Sefton - initial hostility
There was initial hostility in Sefton to the whole idea of primary care groups. The local medical committee balloted its members, achieving a 61 per cent response rate, and found that 72 per cent were against the new organisations.
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All in a life's work
The jacket calls this 'a dazzling intellectual biography of one of the greatest management theorists and social thinkers of our time'. If one leaves out the first adjective, this is a fair description of its contents. It is an intellectual biography in the sense that it gives a chronological account ...
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Point your career in the right direction
Thinking of becoming an academic? Then this is the holiday reading for you. It tells you everything you need to know about academic careers, including the vital components of networking, teaching, researching and writing. What's that you say? You are already an academic. Hmmm, perhaps it might be better if ...
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Something small but perfectly formed
My companion toyed with his chargrilled ciabatta and gazed abstractedly out over Islington High Street.
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Babies die due to 'poor clinical management'
Babies are dying because of 'poor clinical management' and the failure of some GPs to detect serious illness, an influential study has found.
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Art of medicine
Art of medicine: consultant gynaecologist Sarah Gull contributes to West Suffolk Hospital's summer exhibition, as theatre manager Nicola Sharpe looks on. Ms Gull came up with the idea for the show, which features work by theatre staff.
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Lambden withdraws industrial tribunal claim against trade union
A potentially bitter public row between a trade union and its former chief executive was averted at the 11th hour this week.
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BMA drops PCG ballot threat but demands stop to PFI
A last-ditch attempt by GP hardliners to scuttle the government's NHS reforms was overwhelmingly rejected by the British Medical Association's 'annual parliament' this week.
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Ashworth inquiry ends with call to close all the special hospitals
The inquiry into allegations of pornography and child abuse at Ashworth special hospital ended this week with a dramatic plea for the special hospitals to be closed.
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Three-year finance deal pledge by Blair
The health service is to get a three-year financial settlement which will 'offer sustainable year-on-year increases for the foreseeable future', prime minister Tony Blair promised last week's NHS management conference.
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Beacons of excellence to encourage others
Trusts and GP practices will be invited to become 'beacons of excellence' and receive extra money to help others improve their performance, Mr Blair told the conference.
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Homa on the range
Asked what qualities his colleagues would ascribe to him, Peter Homa offers: 'Supportive, focused, results-driven - with a sense of humour.'