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Reassure public over MMR, managers told
Matthew Poulter, who has autism, was 15 months old when he was vaccinated with MMR. His mother Rochelle, from Brighton, said: 'He had been a sociable child but his speech just stopped. He was not saying anything, just grunts and moans. I am convinced it was the MMR.' Matthew and ...
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Ministers welsh on consultation
'Ministers appear to have made up their mind long before the consultation period ended, and... may even have done so before the public and health service had any say in it at all. That is not good enough'
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A change of body image
Fundholders' leaders have quite rightly come to the conclusion that the model has run its course (see News Focus, page 15). Contrary to their earlier predictions that this would send GPs into an apathetic sulk, however, it seems they have now decided to see the advent of commissioning as an ...
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TRUST INTEGRATION IS OBVIOUS AND LOGICAL
Thanks, Alan Randall. 'Why not trust in integration?' (Open Space, 12 February) is a nicely argued article which suggests integrated trusts are the obvious and logical way to organise local secondary care. (I suppose that is why they are not favoured.)
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DISAPPOINTING TO FOCUS ON WHY PRIMARY CARE GROUPS COULD FAIL...
It was with surprise and disappointment that I read Andrew Wall's article on The New NHS white paper ('From paper to practice', pages 28- 29, 19 February).
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...AND GIVE EXISTING PRIMARY CARE MANAGERS MORE CONSIDERATION...
In Andrew Wall's otherwise excellent article, when he discussed who would manage primary care groups, he comments: 'Such managers can presumably be found from redundant HA staff'. Nowhere does he consider existing primary care managers as being part of the new management arrangements.
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...BUT IT'S JUST A CLICHe TO EQUATE COMMITMENT WITH DESIRE FOR CONTROL
Oh no, not again - the tired old cliche about commitment being equivalent to the desired degree of control is trotted out. Andrew Wall treats level 4 as being for the 'ambitious', and levels below for the 'less committed'. He then adds insult to injury by suggesting that fundholding is ...
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IT IS LEADERSHIP, NOT STRUCTURE, THAT MATTERS IN MENTAL HEALTH
Between them, Richard Higgins (Letters, 5 February) and Matt Muijen (Community Spirit, 22 January) pose the key questions for health service practitioners and managers. I hope some of the answers will be illuminated by direct experience of those caring for people with a mental illness.
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CHCS HAVE BEEN SURVEYING PATIENTS FOR YEARS
I read with interest Shirley McIver and Philip Meredith's article on the white paper ('There for the asking', pages 26-27, 19 February) as it raised the issue of how difficult it is to get meaningful data from the general public.
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TELEPHONE ADVICE SERVICE NEEDS UNIFIED STRATEGY
Letters about telephone advice (19 February) serve to illustrate the positive and negative aspects of current approaches to health service provision.
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CALL FOR HELP FROM OTHERS IN SIMILAR SCHEMES
I am the team co-ordinator for health staff in a joint health and social services mental health resettlement scheme.
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Monitor
Monitor is delighted to see that the Institute of Health Services Managers is still at the cutting edge of research into management issues. To coincide with a 'merger mania' conference last week it issued a 'strictly embargoed' press statement detailing a survey of 'managers from across the NHS'. Its findings ...
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Mergers must have meaning
We need to cure 'merger mania' - or more accurately, to take the mania out of mergers. In April, the first wave of trust mergers will kick- start radical change to the shape of acute services. Mergers have always been a political hot potato, causing local headaches for the government, ...
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Management today is full of dsfdfs BY MICHAEL WHITE
John Maples is not a happy man. Though he gets tipped (sometimes) as one of the successes of William Hague's soon-to-be-reshuffled team, he is still smarting over Frank Dobson's reshuffle of 886 seats on NHS trust boards. Details were craftily issued just as Commons health question time ended.
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Key implications
Cholesterol screening programmes are unlikely to reduce mortality and can be misleading or harmful.
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on the record
SIMON STEVENS, 31, is health secretary Frank Dobson's special adviser for policy. He has previously worked as a health authority director, at London teaching hospitals, in mental health in the North East, and in Guyana and New York. He went to Oxford and Strathclyde universities.
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In person
John James has been appointed director of community and specialist health services at Hounslow and Spelthorne Community and Mental Health trust. He joins from King's Healthcare trust, where he was clinical services manager for two-and-a-half years. Previously he was chief executive of the former Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster family ...