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Medical workforce planning is a difficult and neglected area, but ignoring it will cost the NHS dear.
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REFERENCES
1 Feil E, Welch H, Fisher E. Why estimates of physician supply and requirements disagree. JAMA 1993; 269(20):2659-63.
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Better health authority understanding about medical training, the potential impact of recent changes on service quality and quantity, and their cost implications.
Improved communication between trusts, the HA and GP groups about pressures on medical workloads and the potential impact on services.
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It is rapidly becoming clear which bids for health action zone status have the best chance of success.
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There for the asking
Can the government’s planned annual surveys really measure patient satisfaction? And what format should the questionnaire take, ask Shirley McIver and Philip Meredith
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The government's proposal to survey 100,000 patients a year in order to improve services faces
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Bureaucracy: hit and myth
It appears that even the bureaucrats are bureausceptics now. One of the most conspicuous aspects of managers' reaction to the NHS white paper, The New NHS, has been that the proposed pounds1bn cuts in 'red tape' (ie cuts in the number of managers and administrators) hardly rated a mention.1 We ...
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Clinical curiosities
Despite the rapidity of clinical and managerial changes, and the increasing availability of information electronically, there seem to be more books about and for the NHS than ever before. Two of the most popular genres are primers to explain to clinicians the magic and mysteries of management so that they ...
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DILEMMAS IN MODERN HEALTH CARE Edited by John Spiers Social Market Foundation - READY FOR TREATMENT Popular expectations and the future of health care By Nick Bosanquet and Stephen Pollard Social Mark
The Social Market Foundation may have some difficulty now with its title, and certainly the first volume shows that even its contributors scarcely echo Spiers' bold assertion of the 'successful and growing private sector' in the UK today.
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Better network
For the first of a four-part series on the public health green paper targets, Mark Gould visited Manchester to look at initiatives aimed at reducing suicides
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Rolling back the years
The NHS may face a huge bill in backdated claims for pensions contributions. Pat Healy reports
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A different way of doing things
The task of implementing white papers north and south of the border will fall to NHS managers. Barbara Millar reports from Scotland and, below, Mark Crail looks at the challenge in England
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The shock of the new
Health service managers have been given a stern warning not to try to seize control of healthcare reform in the wake of The New NHS as they did with Working for Patients during the early 1990s.
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Long and winding road - to where?
'The NHS is about to embark on a journey to who knows where, armed only with the sketchiest of blueprints riddled with contradiction and ambiguity'
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Time to see some results
Health secretary Frank Dobson’s stock has risen since his uneasy debut last summer (see Politics, page 21). But that won’t last long if he has to preside over many more announcements of large increases in waiting lists. Figures for England showing just that were expected as the Journal went to ...
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ALL CASES ARE SUITABLE FOR A CARING APPROACH
Thank heaven for a mental health professional who is prepared to challenge conventional wisdom concerning so-called personality disorders and a health authority which is prepared to put its money where its mouth is. Penelope Campling and the staff of Francis Dixon Lodge ('Suitable cases for treatment?', pages 34-35, 22 January) ...
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GIVE THE PILOT SITES A CHANCE TO FILL IN THE UNKNOWNS OF NHS DIRECT...
I read with interest Jeremy Dale's article on telephone services, ('Wired for sound', pages 24-27, 29 January). His analysis quite correctly draws attention to the yet to be defined parameters for NHS Direct, and the yet to be answered questions on the likely outcome of its introduction. This is why ...