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Kidderminster General Hospital's acute services have been 'sacrificed' to offset health authority and trust deficits, says a damning report on the political hot potato. James Garnett reports
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Out of sight
Action to address the growing problem of female genital mutilation is being hampered by taboos and ignorance, writes Claire Laurent
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Injection of urgency
Are today's 13 to 14-year-olds to enter adulthood unimmunised against tuberculosis because manufacture of the BCG vaccine relies on the whim of the free market? Tash Shifrin reports
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The state we're in - is all really as it seems?
Flu-fuelled winter 'crisis' was a figment of the media's imagination
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Constructing a bright future
Good estate management is a vital building block for modernising the NHS
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Time to stop horsing around
Much has been made of the rise of the 'bidding culture', where developments are allocated funding after competitive bids.Most comment has been negative: why should funds be apportioned on the basis of bidwriting skills? Where does the concept of need fit? Why introduce money this way when there is so ...
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WEB WATCH
You will be pleased to hear that the European Commission has clinical trials in its sites. Among other things, it wants to ensure that people involved in multi-centre trials are not subject to disproportionate risk, and that their treatment is properly assessed by an ethics committee before it gets the ...
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Harried, hounded - Gisela is left to her Owen devices
Iwas rung in advance to be tipped off that NHS waiting-list totals had finally fallen to 100,000 below the level inherited from the Tories and (like last week's HSJ editorial) was amused to notice what little media attention this long-awaited event generated. Nowadays, on-message folk think waiting times, not lists.
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The devil is in the detail
Workforce planning in the NHS has always lacked cohesion and been dominated by sectional interests. Now the government plans a complete overhaul, writes Jeremy Davies
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Nurses and professions allied to medicine
The focus of planning for all staff, including nurses and everyone from physiotherapists to laboratory staff and clinical psychologists, is at trust level. For nurses, 'bottom up' five-year workforce plans from trusts feed up to education consortia, which then aggregate plans from trusts and other employers, such as nursing homes ...
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NHS workforce planning: the future
A Health Service of All the Talents proposes the following structure: