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Man of the match
The post may not be without its problems, but the NHS s new deputy chief executive is widely viewed as an ideal partner for its boss, writes Kaye McIntosh
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The very rough guide
It may be a shadow of its early draft, but the new planning and priorities guidance is maintaining a rapid pace of change, writes Patrick Butler
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Keeping it simple: the five priority areas
Improving health The NHS - in partnership with local government and other agencies - must develop local anti-smoking, drugs and teenage pregnancy action plans.
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Its not about the money
Easing Glasgow s health problems is more than a case of redistributing wealth, say critics of a recent report on inequalities, writes Barbara Millar
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Money can't buy you health but its handy for extra beds
Why is the NHS struggling to cope with a flu outbreak yet again? Is it the sheer scale of the infection? Hardly: it may yet reach epidemic proportions, but at a peak so far of 144 sufferers per 100,000 population in England it is modest compared with the 200 recorded ...
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The long, good buy
It takes the NHS a scarcely believable two and a half years to buy a computer system. This is nearly twice as long as the rest of the public sector, and is a prime cause of the parlous state of NHS computing.
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Flu, what a scorcher as Milburn feels the heat
Making my Sunday night HSJ calls, I was sort of delighted to read that Howard Stoate, the Labour GP who sits for Dartford, had stumbled on the same thought that I had. Namely that media disappointment that the millennium bug had not disrupted the world s computer systems transmuted into ...
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WEB WATCH
Staff appraisal, proclaimed management guru Tom Peters some time back in the last century, is the number one management problem in the US. 'It takes the average employee (manager or non-manager) six months to recover from it.' Anyone think that doesn't apply to the UK or to what we've seen ...
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Working wounded
A three-year project to tackle staff members health problems meant that one trust had to address organisational and personal conflicts, writes Morag Maddocks
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£23 a year per head: the cost of workplace well-being
The workplace well-being team is staffed by a clinical psychologist and two accredited workplace counsellors, an administrator or receptionist and a research assistant, all working part-time.
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How was it for you?
Listening to the views of patients was the key to ensuring cancer services were sensitive and appropriate for one trust that surveyed patients and carers. Rosemary Williams reports
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Good practice: a sample of patients positive comments
Attitudes of medical staff I have nothing but praise for Mr I even saw him in the main hospital (after discharge) when I went for a blood test and he went out of his way to come and speak to me. He was really, really nice.