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Days like this
A future Labour government would offer a 'new partnership' with NHS managers, shadow health secretary Robin Cook has promised. He said health authorities would have 'maximum freedom' within agreed targets to manage their affairs.'Labour's deal with NHS management will be based on a recognition that those working in the service ...
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Job's worth
Legal pitfalls over employment law await primary care trusts. Alison Moore looks at the human resources implications for these large employers
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Employing practice staff
The future for PCTs may include employing practice staff, taking on many more salaried doctors and even providing social care.
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On the critical list
CHI calls it a 'road to recovery', but its reports on two scandal-hit trusts paint a damning picture of gross failures. Ann McGauran wonders what will follow
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The heart of the matter: Oxford Radcliffe Hospital trust
Every inquiry is different. But classic ingredients appear to include at least one whistleblower, a culture of secrecy, and previous internal inquiries which have failed to bring about sufficient action.
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Water jump
Ann Lloyd used to be a hydrologist, but the new director of the NHS in Wales has long had the health service flowing through her veins. Tash Shifrin reports
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Defence of the realm
Prince Charles, now apparently in tune with the zeitgeist, has been back to the BMA promoting integrated medicine.The NHS is catching up fast, reports Alison Moore
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Bottling out?
'Difficult' questions are being asked about the sincerity of the government's oft-quoted commitment to tackling the growing problem of alcohol misuse. Paul Stephenson reports
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The high price of success
Some GPs may be stigmatised as 'problem prescribers', but one presentation at the conference showed how following national guidelines by prescribing treatments which have accepted benefits for patients can threaten drugs budgets.
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Tough but fair - CHI's first reports set tone for future
But local determination to reform is the only long-term solution to NHS ills
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Is Loyd hungry for a challenge?
We look forward to celeb chef coping with constraints of hospital catering
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One for all and all for one?
The NHS plan refers temptingly to the concept of 'one-stop health and social care services'. Patients and users would no longer be pushed from organisational pillar to professional post. A call to one would be a call to all: seamless care at the point of delivery.
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Nursing a grievance on a wing and a prayer
I took a call at the office on Sunday night from a Downing Street official who was keen to persuade me to write about the scale of investment which the government's three years of economic virtue have made possible.