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Analysis of Lib Dem health plans got the good news right - and the bad news wrong
Paul Stephenson's 'Election 2001' news focus ('Spot the difference', pages 12-13, 8 March) gave welcome coverage to Liberal Democrat plans for more training places for doctors, nurses and therapists; more beds; more scanners; pay rises for low-paid NHS professionals;
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They were the weakest link
Once they were formidable figures, working close alongside ministers, but their increasing irrelevance led to their inevitable demise.Joan Higgins charts the rise and fall of regional chairs
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Key points
The role and autonomy of regional chairs has been eroded since they were established in 1974.
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Careless whispers
One benefit of the elective component of the management training schemes is the chance to see how different parts of the service interact during the same time period.
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Push me, pull you
Hospitals and universities have a long history of interdependence, but the mutual trust this relies on is in danger of disappearing.Tom Smith says it is time to stop them moving apart
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Home in on the range
How can staff give comprehensive advice if they are not aware of the full spectrum of services they can offer? One trust set up a database to help them.
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Health inquality targets
The Department of Health has bitten the bullet and set national targets for reducing health inequalities. Achieving them is likely to prove difficult and beyond the scope of the NHS alone, says John Appleby
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Mike Cooke
Mike Cooke, currently chief executive at Runcorn's Halton General Hospital, has been appointed chief executive of the new South Staffordshire Healthcare trust, which becomes operational on 1 April.
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Disgruntled GPs will not be bought off with £100m. . .
. . . but government's long-awaited focus on primary care is welcome
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Scandalously quick to judge
Where's the justice in wielding axe before investigations are complete?
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Poor data hampers child death review
An inquiry into child death rates at Harefield Hospital has shrugged off claims that mortality for patients treated for congenital heart problems increased as a result of 'major clinical failure'.
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'Golden hellos' form part of £56m package to get - and keep - staff
Campaigning by professional organisations for more to be done to improve GP and nurse recruitment and retention paid off this week, when health secretary Alan Milburn announced millions of pounds in 'golden hellos'.
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DoH struggles to find formula for traffic-light fund
The Department of Health is struggling to come up with meaningful measures for allowing access to the £250m performance fund and introducing the traffic-light bandings of trusts and health authorities this summer.