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Past tense - future imperfect
The lessons from total purchasing suggest that tensions between primary and secondary mental
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Key Points
Experience from total purchasing sites suggests that commissioning mental health services in primary care will be difficult to achieve.
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IMPROVED PERFORMANCE COMES FROM TRUSTS TAKING POSITIVE ACTION
The incomplete and inconclusive quotation from the academic responding to documented, empirically produced facts about the trends in clinical indicator performance was disappointing ('Doubts cast on dramatic fall in hospital deaths', News, page 6, 14 May).
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ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL WITH WELLHOUSE TRUST... AND MS MANERO
Your News Focus ('Fax and figures', pages 10-11, 14 May) correctly identified how optimistic Wellhouse trust is about the future.
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WHY, OH WHY, IS BART'S HOSPITAL TO BE NEEDLESSLY DOWN-SCALED?
Hearing hospital waiting lists are longer than ever, I am reminded that local pensioners are denied access to Bart's, which, though within walking distance, is standing largely unused.
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Monitored
What could possibly be behind the Mirror's extraordinary front- page attack on Dobbo last week? You know the one: 'Embarrassed Mr Dobson? You should be bloody well ASHAMED.' Reliable sources suggest it is all to do with Mirror boss David Montgomery's desperate need to carve out a market position sufficiently ...
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Shades of Gray
The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy's new chief executive is no expert in physiotherapy, but says he understands the profession's needs, writes Linda Davidson
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The rest is silence
The National Blood Authority board meeting made little drama out of its latest crisis. Lyn Whitfield reports
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Wake-up call
The government's declaration that community care has failed should galvanise mental health professionals into action. Cathy Cooper reports
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The survey's findings
Only 4 per cent of commissioners work solely on mental health purchasing, translating into two or fewer whole-time
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End this shambles
'One might have expected just a whisper of concern to escape someone's lips. It was not what you would call a wholehearted conversion to the world of open government'
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A question of accountability
What more damning indictment could there be of the internal market than NHS chief executive Alan Langlands' admission (see News, page 5) that he had not known about the failure of cervical screening services because it was 'not the way we were running the health service in those years'?
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Turn and turn about
When a national sample of psychiatrists taking early retirement were asked what might have kept them in the NHS large numbers apparently replied, a change of government. Alarmed by the rising number of vacant consultant posts, a pre-election survey by the Royal College of Psychiatrists found members increasingly unhappy about ...
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BY CHRIS HAM Rewriting the ration book
The case of Jaymee Bowen, child B, attracted media interest in 1995 because it epitomised the challenge of health services rationing. In reality, the case was a good deal more complex, raising issues not only about the priority to be attached to expensive medical treatments, but also about whether doctors ...
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Dobbo swears blind that he's **** not ashamed BY MICHAEL WHITE
Don't know about you, but I flinched when I saw those 'Nurses: now the backlash' and 'Nurses fly into blood money row' headlines. They were all about the two British nurses released in Saudi Arabia, of course, but in a week of headlines about bogus angels and clamps left in ...