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Big cash handouts are too low for big bang reform Realistic salary scales for PCG chiefs have been set but cash is still short
There will be considerable relief that health minister Alan Milburn has set the salary scale for primary care group chief executives at a realistic level (see News, page 4). The individuals appointed to these jobs will be crucial to the success of the whole PCG project, and it is vital ...
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Can pay, won't pay Who will pick up The Working Time Directive tab? Not us, say agencies
Someone, somewhere has to pay for the Working Time Directive. Alas, many of the staffing agencies on which the NHS relies so heavily appear to have decided that it won't be them (see News, page ?).
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Quebec on call
Quebec's pioneering network of community health and social care centres provide easily accessible integrated services on a neighbourhood basis. Helen Busby and colleagues explain how they work
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Happy couples
The government's Partnership in Action green paper spells out closer joint working arrangements between health and social services, including joint budgets. Lynn Eaton finds out how the prospective partners are shaping up
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Partnership in Action proposals
More joint working at strategic planning, service commissioning and service provision level closely monitored through either the Commission for Health Improvement, the Social Services Inspectorate or the Audit Commission, with joint national priorities and national performance frameworks.
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Partnership provides emergency bed
In Solihull, the Grove Road GP practice, a total purchasing project, and Solihull social services department have agreed to jointly purchase a bed in a nursing home for patients who may need emergency 24-hour care.
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Working together to support mentally ill people at risk
Chris Heginbotham, chief executive of East and North Hertfordshire health authority admits that a joint mental health risk team was set up on the suggestion of Hertfordshire social services director Ian White. Both were concerned about patients with a history of mental illness who were living in the community and ...
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In from the cold
Health workers are involved in a joint team with other agencies to help rough sleepers off the streets. Family doctor Nigel Hewett describes its impact on 72 clients over six months
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Duel carriageway
How could the new statutory duty of partnership placed on health and local authorities change existing relationships and working partnerships? David Owens thinks the road leads to conflict
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Professor Rory Shaw
has become medical director of Hammersmith Hospitals trust. He is a specialist in respiratory medicine and led the development of a new curriculum at Imperial College School of Medicine.
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Government will not order utility firms to put NHS first if IT bug hits
The NHS will have to rely on the good will of power, water and telephone companies for priority treatment if the millennium computer bug hits supplies, it emerged this week.
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Hillingdon strikers win reinstatement
A three-year dispute at Hillingdon Hospital has ended with an industrial tribunal ruling that 25 Asian domestic and catering staff, sacked for refusing to take cuts in pay and conditions, should be reinstated and paid compensation totalling almost 300,000.
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Fraud costs vulnerable people 1m a year
At least 1,500 elderly and vulnerable people are being defrauded of up to 1m each year by people, including nursing home staff, who are trusted to take over their financial affairs.
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Long-term care commission look to Australia
Proposals to reform care for elderly people in Britain are likely to borrow from the system in Australia, it emerged this week.
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On the record
CLIFF PRIOR is chief executive of the National Schizophrenia Fellowship. He chairs the government's mental health national service framework sub-group on long-term care.
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Managers summoned over Welsh waiting lists
Senior NHS managers have been summoned to meet Welsh health minister Jon Owen Jones to 'discuss their contributions' to reducing lengthening waiting lists.
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Social policy 'must focus on inequalities'
The chair of the government's inquiry into inequalities in health has called for 'health inequality impact assessments' to be applied to all areas of social policy.