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Welsh secretary Ron Davies has issued a consultation paper asking for views on priorities for public spending in Wales. It acknowledges NHS Wales' 24bn budget - a third of the Welsh Office total - is 'under substantial pressure' but points out that 'any additions to one (area of spending) will ...
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Joint winter funding is 'lopsided' - Thornton
Inter-agency partnerships to tackle winter pressures will be 'lopsided' unless the government plans a long-term cash injection for social services, NHS Confederation chief executive Stephen Thornton warned last week.
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GPs set to benefit from telephone advice ruling
Health authorities could have to pay thousands of pounds in back pay for GP telephone advice, following a landmark ruling by the NHS appeals authority.
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Danger of postcode rationing versus men without stress who smoke less
The debate about the availability of Viagra on the NHS have implications much wider than the treatment of impotence alone. Health secretary Frank Dobson should be congratulated on taking the politically risky step of offering a central policy decision on what the NHS can be expected, or is capable of ...
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Genetic revolution which could force rethink on nurse training will catch managers on the hop
David Hunter ('Live from Leeds', 3 September) is absolutely right to highlight the almost total failure so far to pay proper attention to the impending genetic revolution in healthcare.
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New approach to the waiting list problem
I was interested to read John Henderson's letter (13 August) on waiting list management in child and adolescent mental health services.
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Many staff dance on head of a pin when it comes to their own safety
After reading your item on needlestick injuries (page 4, 20 August), I wanted to let you know what we are doing at King's Healthcare trust.
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Complaints about equal opportunities do not paint the whole picture
Your news story on equality practice (page 2, 10 September) pointed showed many trusts not turning policy into action.
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Nostalgic look back at past caring
Headline Health: Health Service Journal History of the NHS Edited by Wendy Moore Emap Healthcare 125 pages 13.99
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Social science
The economics of social spending 2nd edition Edited by Howard Glennerster and John Hills Oxford University Press 363 pages 40
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True-life tale of blood, sweat and tiers
Bloodllines Real lives in a Great British hospital Andrew Davidson Little Brown
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Phoney wars
When GPs were told they could no longer claim payment for giving telephone advice, they were up in arms. But Steve Ainsworth says they should never have been claiming in the first place
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Joys of the single life
Nearly half the general practices in London consist of one doctor. Jeremy Davies spoke to a selection about their reasons for going solo.
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LIZ in a tizz
Set up to close the primary care service gap between London and the rest of the country, the LIZ programme has achieved little beyond improved premises. And, say Richard Lewis and Susan Williams, the capital's underperformance still needs urgent attention
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London still needs to address:
the large number of premises requiring upgrading or replacement;
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Qualified support
The NHS human resources strategy was broadly welcomed at the HR managers' conference last week. But funding, coercion from the centre and consistency of standards were some of the concerns. Barbara Millar and Mark Crail report
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It's cold outside
The second annual forum of trust and health authority chief executives found them voicing bitter complaints about New Labour's command and control style. Peter Davies and Pat Healy were there
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Penetrating the corridors of power
NHS chief executives should play dirty and learn political advocacy so that they could manage upwards as well as downwards, said Labour peer Baroness Young, chair of English Nature and former IHSM president.
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Chips with everything
Already stretched to their limits by the year 2000 bugging imbroglio, IT managers are now be asked to deliver on Frank Burns' punishing new strategy. Can it be done, wonders Peter Mitchell