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Empowerment to the people
Professor Aidan Halligan insists he's not one of the great and the good, but he tells Kaye McIntosh that his clinical governance support team is about delivering a 'patient-centred, staff-owned quality health service'
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Mind how you go
Speculation about Scottish health minister Susan Deacon's future continues apace. Colin Wright reports
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Paddington plans laid bare
An ambitious scheme to transform heart and lung services at one site in west London will shake up hospitals in the capital. Laura Donnelly reports
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In the wars
After a growing number of horrifying attacks on hospital staff, trusts are getting tough with their assailants. Phil Coleman reports
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Time to turn the tables and give NHS data it deserves
Performance indicators are essential part of service's accountability
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Shhhhhh, whisper who dares. . .
. . . but increase in manager workforce is cause for celebration
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Retro chic rules the roost
Sometimes it seems as if the NHS is not so much being modernised as going back in time - a case of 'back to the future'.
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WEB WATCH
If you want to know whether the porters at Huddersfield trust have been trained in safe ways to lift and handle patients or equipment (they have), or whether Royal West Sussex trust can claim that its discharge care planning documents are an integral part of its clinical records (not yet ...
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Damned by the Dame who looks down from on high
When Tory MP Graham Brady rang to say he'd just held a revealing debate on patronage in health boards, I commiserated. That was all well and good, but didn't he know that Tony Blair had just staged a rare press conference, White House-style, at Number 10? Or that ministers were ...
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Shape up or ship out
More people are heading overseas for non-urgent treatment, many in response to long waiting lists at home. But should the NHS foot the bill? Seamus Ward reports
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Healer's digest
Having meals round a table with other people encourages patients to eat more. Heather Hartwell and John Edwards report