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PCT guidance slammed as 'confused'
Managers and clinicians have attacked key guidance on developing primary care trusts for being 'confused' and 'disappointing'.
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Deans 'will be liable in bias cases'
Doctors and dentists who teach postgraduate students have been warned they are personally accountable if they discriminate on grounds of sex, race or disability.
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Dobson will identify top executive talent
Health secretary Frank Dobson wants to create a national system for identifying and recruiting a 'cadre of highly-trained professionals' for some of the most demanding chief executive posts in the NHS, it was revealed this week.
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Indicators to cross over
NHS commissioners will be able to use proposed social services performance indicators to lever up standards of care, according to junior health minister John Hutton.
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CHC wins access to PFI scheme in 'groundbreaking' deal on rights
A community health council has secured 'groundbreaking' access to a new private finance initiative hospital.
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Ambulance trust chief executive retires before 999 inquiry reports
The chief executive of an ambulance trust has retired, weeks before an inquiry reports on allegations that response times were 'doctored'.
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Shock exit follows shake-up at Fife
The chief executive of Fife health board is to leave. News of her departure came just two days after she had said management changes were necessary.
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Survey shows fall in HA-funded IVF treatment
The amount of in vitro fertilisation treatment funded by health authorities and boards is continuing to fall, according to a survey for the National Infertility Awareness Campaign.
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Commission to look at public interest watchdog role
An independent commission has been set up to 'identify the best way to represent the public interest in the health service'.
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People asked to pay for their own return to practice courses
The Royal College of Nursing has warned that people who want to return to nursing could be put off by being asked to pay for their own return to practice courses. Health secretary Frank Dobson has said courses should be free and has allocated £4m to cover costs, but the ...
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Only two PCG chairs to be held by nurses
Just two of the 481 primary care groups in England are chaired by nurses, it has emerged.
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AIDS trust attacks HAs in spending row
English health authorities have been accused of misspending HIV budgets by not following government guidance that at least half should target vulnerable groups.
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Pilot study predicts clinical staff will face high workloads and pressure
High workloads may mean 'some personal sacrifice' for clinical members of primary care groups, a study of GP commissioning pilots has warned.
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Junior doctors spurn abortion
A pressure group is calling for an overhaul of NHS abortion services in the light of a survey showing that junior doctors may be increasingly unwilling to provide them.
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Plans to cut Scotland's biggest killers by half
Deaths from Scotland's two biggest killer diseases should be cut by up to 50 per cent under plans set out in a public health white paper that promises a 'coherent attack' on health inequalities as its 'overarching aim'.
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Getting into the swing
It's time the NHS had a national curriculum for management development - but not a staff college, argues Chris Ham
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And the bands play on
The NHS pay system is being reformed to allow a combination of national pay spines and locally decided bands. But the success of the scheme will depend crucially on the unions.
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Which doctors?
Who will make a good doctor, and how can you tell? With 6,000 extra medical school places opening between now and 2005, selection procedures are under the spotlight. Mark Crail reports
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Experiencing turbulence
They may not be under the same do-or-die pressure as their airline counterparts, but health service chief executives are finding their millennium headaches far from over, writes Mark Crail
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Dangerous precedent
Home secretary Jack Straw's proposals for locking away people with 'severe personality disorders', in case they commit a crime, have enraged mental health campaigners. Laura Donnelly reports