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Commissioning must be flexible to achieve targets, research suggests
Ministers may have to adopt a more 'flexible' approach to GP commissioning if they want it to deliver all their objectives for the NHS, research suggests.
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GPs force HA and trust to drop cuts plan
London GPs have forced a health authority and trust to drop plans to restrict doctors' access to diagnostic services.
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Potential life saver
Potential life saver: Welsh health minister Win Griffiths meets staff at Tenby ambulance station during a tour of the integrated hospital and ambulance service run by Pembrokeshire and Derwen trust last week. A fierce campaign is being waged to stop the service being absorbed into an all-Wales ambulance trust, if ...
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Executive halts ACHCEW legal service tender bids
Health officials have abandoned moves to find new lawyers for a national patients' group.
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Newham Community Health Services trust
Newham Community Health Services trust planned to go to school this week to discuss health provision for young people. A trust board meeting was to be held at Brampton Manor School in Newham, east London, to hear students' views on services. Trust chair Peter Kenyon said the move was a ...
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Anti-merger campaigners rat tle Bro Taf HA
The chair of a Welsh health authority has claimed that staff have faced an 'unacceptable amount of lobbying' and 'threats' while drawing up trust reconfiguration plans.
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Part-timers' pension cases go to Europe
Test cases affecting the pensions of thousands of part-time health workers were referred to the European Court of Justice by the House of Lords last week.
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Anger as green paper falls short on inequalities and funding pledges
Public health and mental health experts have attacked the government's long-awaited public health green paper for not going far enough to tackle problems.
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Taking aim
The government has selected four key targets for 2010 to replace the 27 in The Health of the Nation:
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Past recovery
Past recovery: staff clear out Ye Oldest Chymist Shoppe in England, which was founded in Knaresborough in 1720 and closed last week. 'We just have too many chemists in a small town,' said owner Stewart Newsome. Knaresborough's chamber of trade hopes a museum might be set up on the ground ...
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Doubting David's healthy concern for Britain's ills
The paragraph which leapt from the pages of the public health green paper, Our Healthier Nation, was the one which proclaimed 'a third way between the old extremes of individual victim-blaming on the one hand and nanny-state social engineering on the other. Good health is no longer about blame, but ...
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Cash on delivery
Despite last week's resignation of the Lottery regulator, and calls for tighter control of the game, the Lottery remains an enticing source of funding. But tapping it is far from simple. Barbara Millar reports
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National Lottery Charities Board membership
Chair: Hon David Sieff, non-executive director, Marks & Spencer
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DEVELOPING PROFESSIONAL JUDGEMENT IN HEALTH CARE Learning through the critical appreciation of practice By Della Fish and Colin Coles Butterworth Heinemann 318 pages pounds17.99
Professionals are under siege. Their one-time autonomy is no longer sacrosanct, partly because patients and clients are more knowledgeable and partly because they are more suspicious. Even doctors, who have for so long inhabited the higher slopes of exclusivity, find their patients challenging their judgement, even as far as the ...
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In person
David Black has been appointed medical director of Queen Mary's Sidcup trust, where he has been a consultant physician and geriatrician for the past 10 years. Dr Black was also previously clinical director of the adult medicine directorate and a part-time operations manager at the trust.
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PERFORMANCE FRAME WORK
WHAT MECHANISMS SHOULD REPLACE 'FINANCIAL COMPETITION' AS THE SPUR TO IMPROVING POOR PERFORMANCE? JOHN APPLEBY REPORTS ON THE NEW FRAMEWORK