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Medical negligence changes will force swift 'owning up'
Radical changes to the way medical negligence cases are handled came into force this week.
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Audit is 'not an excuse' for lack of improvement
Public sector managers should not use their auditors as a convenient excuse for failing to improve services, leading audit organisations have warned.
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Counter-fraud teams bring hundreds of jobs
The NHS is to recruit hundreds of senior and middle managers as counter-fraud specialists for a £3m network of 'fraudbusting teams'.
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Ex-manager in court on fraud and deception charges
A former trust manager has appeared in court on charges of fraud and deception. Walter James Hurley, 49, former manager of sub-contracted services for Lifecare trust in Surrey, is accused of committing six offences involving up to £500,000.
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Campaigners slam 'parachuting in' of high-level Executive secondee
Hospital campaigners have accused two Hertfordshire trusts of 'parachuting in' a senior NHS Executive manager to 'force through unpopular changes in healthcare'.
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Beware a London power surge Mayor's strong influence highlights need to rethink the regional offices
News that London's powerful new executive mayor will have a considerably stronger role in health matters than was first planned has its down side (see news, pages 2-3). Of course the mayor should be required to consider the health impact of their policies. So should all local authorities. But there ...
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WEB WATCH MARK CRAIL
Whatever became of health action zones? Since most exist almost entirely in the collective imaginations of their partner organisations ('early days yet to see results... process of building partnerships takes time...'), they are perhaps the ultimate in NHS virtual reality - and therefore natural web entities.
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Hinchliffe must accept people will vote with their feet
Your article 'I hate the bastards' (news focus, 8 April) arouses remarkably strong feeling among my colleagues and myself in response to health select committee chair David Hinchliffe's comments about the independent sector.
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Managers of community trust are doing a fine job
I am writing in connection with the news focus 'Open wounds' (22 April) in which I was extensively quoted.
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Following the example set by Birmingham
The comparison of major city expenditure on mental health services from John Mahoney and Sahsi Sashidaran is informative and thought-provoking ('Poor relations', pages 24-26, 1 April).
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Carers' support for NICE should not be taken for granted
I agree with you that the National Institute for Clinical Excellence still has a long way to go before there can be real change (Comment, 8 April).
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Health promotion is key to public health
Public health may indeed benefit from a radical rethink, as suggested by Donald Coid and Desmond Ryan ('Historical novel', pages 28-29, 15 April), but it should also consider its relationship with health promotion.
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Croydon stakes its claim to fame - but does Kingston know the first thing about it?
Health improvement programmes
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Somerset gained widespread support from public and partners for integrated approach
Somerset HA and Somerset social services last year incorporated the community care plan into the first health improvement programme, and did this both in the initial draft published for consultation last September and in the recently produced final HImP.
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On the Wight track for making waves
The Isle of Wight's health improvement programme already incorporates the local community care plan, as did the three previous fully joint annual island plans for health and social care.