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Cost-effective?
The Audit Commission says it was not possible to model all the alternative services with their different costs but that studies so far have produced 'encouraging results':
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Public enemy no 1
The General Medical Council is under attack now even from doctors. Kaye McIntosh soaks up the hostility at the LMC's annual conference
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Race lost on points
Black healthcare staff are victims of discrimination under the discretionary points system for pay, a survey claims. Ann McGauran examines how fair the arrangements are
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Dear Mel. . .
Our trust is having merger talks with Tesco. Hospital employees will get bonus Club Card points, but I think patients should as well. Do you agree?
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Wales told fresh targets must be met with current funding
The Welsh health service has been set stringent targets on waiting-list reduction which health and social services secretary Jane Hutt insists can be met with a £40m allocation made in May.
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Cooper throws a fit - on scrip
Public health minister Yvette Cooper has announced plans to expand exercise on prescription schemes.
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Days like this
Consultants hit out at reforms. . . junior doctors press for strike action. . . focus on London co-ordination. . . accountants steer clear of NHS
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Heaven can wait
Innovation? Give us more. Grand plan? Let's start tomorrow. The New Health Network conference was painfully on-message. Maura Thompson was there
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Going into labour
One of the authors of a major report on birth statistics has criticised the government's new systems for collecting health data. Janet Snell finds out why co-ordinating national health statistics is not child's play
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Once bitten. . .
In the third in our series on the government's modernisation plans for the NHS, we look at prevention and inequalities.
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No end to the production line
Health minister John Denham was spared the embarrassment of a slow handclap at the British Association of Medical Managers' conference, but the drive for reform has stirred up dissension among the ranks. Alison Moore reports
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Bunch picked for BAMM chair
Oxford Radcliffe Hospital trust medical director Chris Bunch is the man who will chair BAMM from next year. Dr Bunch was elected as vice-chair at this year's conference and will take over in a year's time.
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Who will take the pressure as two become one?
What seems a logical step may turn out to be impossible to achieve
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Checkmate for 'king' consultants
Clinical governance is working and managers are feeling the load
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Too many facts, too few words
Producing patient information is fraught with pitfalls. Updating a number of factsheets fell to me over a recent wet bank holiday weekend. By Monday evening my mind was reeling from trying to achieve a balance between plain English, political correctness, evidence-based factual accuracy and being neither simplistic and condescending on ...
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Clwyd gives vent to private fury over shamed medics
I tend to be wary of public persecution of named individuals, even by politicians (or journalists) I respect. The righteous zeal of the animal rights lobby, for instance, often smacks of the hunt in full pursuit of the fox, as we are finding again this week.