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Waiting for the party to begin
The New NHS white paper emphasises the need to improve clinical governance. The government's plans for a National Institute for Clinical Excellence and a Commission for Health Improvement are to be elaborated soon.
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Why Bickerstaffe is still no Buddy of New Labour
I don't know where you were when the Easter pay debate erupted. But St Ives in Cornwall was as good a vantage point as any. Pay is notoriously low and seasonal in the West Country, though indices of poverty (and thus of NHS grants) are distorted by high levels of ...
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Dying for a good meal?
The NHS serves 3 million meals a day - more than any other organisation in the UK, even McDonald's. But more than a third of hospital patients suffer from malnutrition. Barbara Millar reports on initiatives to improve standards
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All for a guinea a week
Only the sickest patients could hope for a real egg when hospitals had to feed patients on 21 shillings a week. Bernadette Friend recalls rationing and racketeering in the early NHS
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Finance managers: give us timetable for latest reforms
Finance managers have warned the government to get to grips with the process of implementing its NHS reforms before it is too late. They want a timetable by the end of the month, setting out the work needed to implement the white paper.
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13 HAs fail to reach targets for screening
Thirteen health authorities failed to screen sufficient women to reach the national target for cervical screening in 1996-97, the National Audit Office said this week.
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Hands of history?
Public health minister Tessa Jowell makes her mark as she formally launches the health action zone for Manchester, Salford and Trafford this week. She presents a display of handprints from local children whose health prospects will be a key focus for the HAZ. Work has started on the seven year ...
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Professional approaches
Designating cancer units requires time, tact and training. Liz Scott and colleagues describe one system
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on the record
ANDREW CORBETT-NOLAN is director of Health Services Accreditation and deputy chair of the Terrence Higgins Trust. A medieval historian by background, he joined the NHS in 1987. He has led the development of HSA since its inception in a pub in 1991 to its current status as a national programme.
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in person
Ian Cumming (above) has become chief executive of the recently created Morecambe Bay Hospitals trust. He was formerly chief executive of Lancaster Acute Hospitals trust and oversaw its merger with Furness Hospitals trust and Westmorland Hospitals trust to form the organisation he now leads.
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Christmas 'cancelled' as IT bug panic bites across NHS
Hospitals are set to cancel Christmas leave for many staff next year to guard against potential disaster from the millennium IT bug.