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Labour warned by academics on drift towards centralisation
Labour looks set to repeat a key Conservative error by imposing heavy-handed central control on the NHS, according to the most comprehensive review yet of the last set of reforms.
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Milburn accused over 'easy' fat cat rhetoric
Health minister Alan Milburn has been accused of using 'the easy rhetoric' of 'fat cat managers' by the First Division Association.
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Ambulance trust merger hit by 'mistrust'
'Tension and mistrust' is creeping into merger plans involving three trusts in the east Midlands, according to the chief executives involved.
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In brief
Prime minister Tony Blair has been urged to support global rules controlling tobacco marketing in the forthcoming white paper on smoking. The call comes from the World Development Movement campaign, which is trying to stop tobacco companies 'aggressively marketing' products in the third world to replace sales lost in developed ...
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Job scheme under attack from union
Greenwich Healthcare trust has been reported to the National Audit Office for allegedly misusing public money to develop a
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Demand for boards and trusts to share list cuts
Health board general managers and trust chief executives will be expected to 'sign up' to their share of the Scottish waiting list cuts target.
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Calman questions screening needs
Chief medical officer Sir Kenneth Calman used his final annual report to question the value of some of the 100 screening programmes in place across the NHS.
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Scottish GPs demand more say in reforms
GPs have called for a bigger say in the government's reform of the Scottish health service.
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Northern Ireland at risk from fraud
Northern Ireland could be losing millions of pounds a year through fraud in primary care, a report from the Northern Ireland Audit Office has concluded.
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Super idea puts paid to talks
Managers are miffed that they were not forewarned about the government's 'nurse consultants' plan, and are wondering how it will affect the already complicated pay discussions.
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Minority action
Trusts believe in the principle of equal opportunities - the policies are there to prove it - but only a minority know how to put them into practice. Thelma Agnew reports
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Take a walk on the wild side
Does a trade union background help prepare you for management? As the TUC meets this week in Blackpool, managers who were once activists talk to Patrick Butler
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Back to Beveridge
The Liberal Democrats believe they have a blueprint for reassessing the welfare state. But nowhere does their latest health policy paper say how much it would all cost.
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Lib Dems: beware bringing the local touch to health Any pretence at providing a truly national service would be abandoned
People queued in the street to buy copies of Sir William Beveridge's weighty tome on establishing the welfare state when it was published in 1942; the BBC broadcast its recommendations to Europe in 22 languages. The fanfare greeting the Liberal Democrats' nine-page policy document, Moving Ahead, was a little more ...
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Farewell to internal market folly Did it really exist? And has it gone for good?
It preoccupied the NHS's 1 million staff for years on end. It provoked heated debate among the public - and their implacable suspicion - on a scale rivalled only by the poll tax. Now it's consigned to the dustbin of history it appears not to have had much impact on ...
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In charge - with consensus
Consensus management is emerging as a model for primary care groups. This dangerous trend must be stopped.