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Good staff training is essential when restraint of those with a learning disability is necessary
The use of physical interventions, or restraint, to manage challenging behaviours presented by adults and children with a learning disability, is a matter of considerable concern to professionals, care staff, family members and those responsible for implementing government policy.
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Northwick Park shows how a hospital can adapt to a developing future
I found Ann Dix's article, 'Concrete issues' (cover feature, 30 July) very good stuff - concise, interesting and fair.
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Viagra - an opportunity for an astute government to raise revenue
The radio alarm rouses me with the drone of John Humphrys giving some poor soul a good grilling about the Pfizer-riser, the new wonderdrug that everyone is talking about. The pre-release publicity and media coverage have been fantastic, and not a day goes by without mention of Viagra ('Upping the ...
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Fast-track management training schemes
We are four management trainees based in North West region. As part of the education component of the scheme (MA, managing healthcare organisations) we are examining graduate fast-track management training schemes. If any
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Staff absenteeism
I am researching the recruitment problems and absenteeism rates of domestic staff and would like to know what experiences other trusts have had.
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IHSM is not the strong body managers need
Jamie Sharpley is right (Letters, 27 August), NHS managers deserve a strong body which pretty well every manager belongs to. Sadly, the Institute of Health Services Management is not that body.
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Cognitive approach to witness interviewing
I am carrying out research into interviewing witnesses using the cognitive approach - an interview technique for managers to enable witnesses to recall an event or incident accurately and in detail.
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Happy families or snap?
Family-friendly working initiatives are widespread in the NHS, but are managers matching policies to what staff really want? John Northrop finds out
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Share options
The financial exchange mechanisms that will replace contracting are still unclear. Eugene Milne suggests a solution
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Red herring
The time has come to overhaul the financing of general practice and abandon the current system of GPs' fees and allowances. Peter Old and colleagues use experience from the Isle of Wight to explain why
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Great dictators
Leadership is a vastly overrated quality, especially in managers, argues Steve Ainsworth
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The internal market
Despite a dearth of research on the internal market, John Appleby looks to two economists for their assessment of its effectiveness at reducing prices and costs
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A summary of evidence of internal market effects on hospital prices and costs
Were GP fundholder prices consistent?
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Monitor
As a loyal mouthpiece of the great helmsman, Monitor is always happy to pass on the thoughts of Chairman Frank. So here goes: there have been 'an alarming number of proposals for private hospitals since January', writes our Dobbo - who should know. He is particularly concerned at joint proposals ...
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Scant evidence that performance-related pay is a motivator for staff
Performance-related pay and job evaluation
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NHS pay group should keep to the principle of simplicity if it wants to gain staff confidence
I refer to the news story 'Pay working group collapses as BMA and RCN withdraw' (page 2, 6 August).
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The situation in Gaza and the West Bank is unusual and requires a unique sensitive approach
I was interested but disappointed to read your interview with Cathy Gritzner on setting up a health service in Palestine (News Focus, 25 June).
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The Patients Association overlaps the role community health councils hold by statute
In your report on the annual conference of the Association of Community Health Councils (News Focus, 23 July), David Spilsbury of South Birmingham CHC seems to feel that the CHC should be and is the only organisation to represent patients' views.