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This Page is not for turning
Northumbria Healthcare trust and its chief executive, Sue Page, are hailed nationally as a model of co-operative working, yet grassroots staff tell a different story. Paul Stephenson finds out why
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Means to an end
Abortions are easy to obtain - but there are wide regional variations in who gets access to NHS-funded services, reports Claire Laurent
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With PALS like these. . .
The framework for the patient advocacy and liaison service is there, but where's the detail, wonders Alison Moore
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Blast from the past
A second phase of polio is returning to haunt people who long thought they had put the disease behind them. Alex Klaushofer reports on the problems this is bringing
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Just keep it simple, stupid
Everywhere you look, performance measures are sprouting as the control freaks in Whitehall village seek to oversee every aspect of NHS activity. The old Soviet Union tried to exert this degree of control before the collapse of communism: it failed.We should learn from the comrades to keep it simple.
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Mirror, mirror on the wall, is Lenin or Liam the most risk-averse of them all?
Talk of health department supremo Nigel Crisp being on TV! Last week there was so much public health news around that it was the chief medical officer, Professor Liam Donaldson, who was scarcely off the silver screen.
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Let's drink to that
Fears that the concordat between the NHS and the private sector will lead to privatisation are unfounded. It is more likely to be the nationalisation of private medicine, says Joan Higgins
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Labouring under delusions
In the 1940s health minister Aneurin Bevan retained private practice and NHS pay beds, which represented everything he opposed, as the price of establishing the NHS.But when Barbara Castle became social services secretary in 1974, she launched an all-out assault on private practice, the consultant contract, NHS pay beds and ...
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Models for partnerships
Various models for public-private partnership are envisaged. For elective care, the concordat suggests that primary care groups and primary care trusts could rent accommodation from the private sector but use NHS staff, on their normal contractual terms, to deliver the service. Or a trust might 'sub-contract' the provision of a ...
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More frills than skills
Patients love the trappings of private treatment, says Anne Christie, but they may be less safe than in the NHS