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Fancy brick work
How much support exists for the health select committee's proposal to integrate fully health and social services, wonders Pat Healy; 'Bringing them together would be a disaster. You can't force people to work together'
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Getting the cold shoulder
Has Sam Galbraith's personal winter crisis damaged his chances of becoming Scotland's first health minister? Colin Wright reports; 'For a man who was presented as a 'safe pair of hands', he has begun to look a little clumsy'
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White goods
Scotland's public health white paper is due early next month. Barbara Millar reports on what is likely to be in store
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Upheaval, mayhem, poor morale - and all for what? Merger mania is causing seismic shifts that may not fulfil expectations
On 1 April the NHS structure throughout the UK will look radically different to how it did just 23 months earlier when Labour came to power. A decade ago, the service protested shrilly against the pace of change instigated by the Thatcher reforms; the internal market took three years to ...
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Same again but with a difference The only real option open to Labour is to fund the nurses' pay award
Ministers are currently having that hardest of lessons about the NHS rammed down their throats - namely, that no matter how much money you allocate to it, sooner or later (usually sooner) it will raise a cacophonous clamour for even more.
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A come-back for public service
'The desire to preserve and improve 'our' NHS is still strong enough to bind individuals through enormous changes'
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St Tony of Lost Causes tends the sick at heart
Now that Charlie Whelan has hung up his boots as spin doctor to Chancellor Brown it is safe to say without fear of reprisal that there are distinct dangers attached to over-cleverness in his trade.
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Soviet-style back-stabbing and political goulash - welcome to PCGs
In April, primary care groups - still talking shops without secretariats - will 'go live', setting pro and anti-fundholders together, in an attempt at enforcing unifying policies among GPs of diverse opinion. Similarly, nurses, health visitors, social workers and political appointees will be plunged into the melting pot, the inevitable ...
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Treating the drug-cost headache by tapping into regional expertise
PCGs will be under considerable pressure to cut prescribing costs and obtain the best value for money from drugs.
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Our egalitarian government should halt this drain on the public purse
I received a flyer from QMW Public Policy Seminars, London University, inviting me to hand over £300 of public money (£259 plus VAT) to attend a day seminar on inequalities in health.
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Wiping the floor with comments on pay
I appreciate that doctors' pay is a significant issue, but it is grossly overstated by Nizam Mamode, deputy chair of the British Medical Association's junior doctors committee ('Quick march', 3 December).
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Complaints convenors can be impartial...
Hilda Harvey's letter (3 December) shows a level of prejudice and bias that does little to instil confidence in her independence as a complaints convenor.
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Cancer trials: money is not only currency of success
Alan Maynard's article ('Looking Askance', 19 November), on the cost-effectiveness of cancer services, was disappointing in its narrowness of approach.
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Going our not-so-separate ways on health and social services spending
In 'Separate ways' (26 November), Paul Jervis and Robert Hazell write that 'the latest figures indicate that Northern Ireland and Scotland receive around 30 per cent per capita more than England, while Wales receives around 15 per cent more'.
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Monitor wouldn't wish to suggest anyone was panicking about the millennium bug, but when hospitals start sinking their own wells to ensure continued water supplies 'just in case', there must be something going on. Northwick Park Hospital communications manager Brian Goodinson says the idea does hold other attractions, even if ...
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When the chips are down
Some hospitals now seem confident of thwarting the millennium computer bug. Other are worried about basic utilities and concern over IT staffing levels is widespread. Peter Mitchell reports; 'Staffing over the meltdown period is the real problem'
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'Even the best performers have much to do, but some have an awful lot more to do than others'
Taking the slow road: Scotland's year 2000 problem
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Key points
An increase in the number of complications following male circumcisions performed by non-professionals led to the establishment of a special clinic for religious circumcisions.