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Access route
Waiting-list buster Peter Homa is keen to point out that tackling waiting lists is only part of a wider endeavour to improve access to high- quality care. Kaye McIntosh listened in on an HSJ masterclass
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We'll take the high road
Women healthcare managers embarking on their careers have formed a networking initiative. It's just as well, when of the 25 chief executives appointed to head Scotland's new trusts only one is a woman.
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Willing to be a mentor All the way to the top
Ms Boyle started out as a nurse in Glasgow, worked in nursing personnel in Lanarkshire, and moved to Croydon as a personnel manager and then assistant unit general manager before returning as assistant personnel director for Greater Glasgow health board.
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Give and take
There are about 65 transplant co-ordinators in the UK, but funding is uneven - even though trusts gain financially from doing transplants.
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A fitting start
In the first of an occasional series on a health action zone in the making, Laura Donnelly looks at the challenges of linking up with other agencies
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Plymouth: a city guide - and HAZ blueprint
Plymouth is one of the most deprived local authorities - ranking 338 out of 366 on the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions' index of local conditions.
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Thirst for regulation leaves bodies all over the place
Holding public services to account is fine, but we need to do it efficiently
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Nothing will come of nothing
Why treat health authority managers differently from other staff groups?
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WEB WATCH MARK CRAIL
Sherlock Holmes would cast a cursory glance at the footprints left by a fleeing criminal before calmly announcing that the man would be found at Rotherhithe Docks aboard a Calcutta-bound tea clipper due to leave port on the next tide. And how did he know? Elementary, my dear Watson.
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Time to move on from counsel of gloom on personality disorder management
HW Griffiths' description of psychopathic disorder (Letters, 12 November) is clinically pessimistic, which is probably why he thinks it is untreatable. Judging from Dr Griffiths' approval of the Butler committee's report he would prefer this disorder banged up so he can concentrate on the really treatable illnesses, like schizophrenia and ...
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Recognition of diverse information needs of PCGs is key to success
Your article on primary care computing by Michael Cross ('Burned Out', Special Report, 5 November) rightly draws attention to the critical importance of information to primary care groups, and the absence of easy solutions. However, the conclusion that PCGs must either 'plug existing practice management systems together' or replace them ...
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Place rehabilitation within primary care
It's a progression, it's a promotion, it's a priority ('Dobson pushes for rehabilitation', News, page 7, 29 October). But if the goal of new rehabilitation services is to prevent 'permanent disablement' by an early response to 'illness or injury', services will need to intervene early in the history of a ...
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Research on employee involvement schemes
I am researching the relationship between employee involvement schemes and employee commitment in a large NHS trust for an MA in industrial relations with labour law at Manchester Metropolitan University.
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Chance to influence NHS pension strategies
The NHS pension scheme is the largest in the country, and possibly in western Europe, with 1.5 million members, 11,500 employers and annual membership contributions of £1.5bn.
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Adding clarity to the picture of deprivation
It was good to see the prominent and helpful coverage you gave to the issue of deprivation and ill health in Scotland, based around our recent publication ('Poor health', News Focus, 22 October).
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Exposed to poisonous pleasure
Martin Ball has overlooked the strong evidence linking passive smoking with coronary heart disease, bronchitis, asthma, emphysema, conjunctivitis and the myriad of other respiratory, inflammatory and allergic conditions that bring so much pain, suffering, misery and cost to the unwary, uninformed or simply vulnerable individuals who are exposed to the ...
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Separate ways
Will devolution mean an end to a truly national health service? Paul Jervis and Robert Hazell examine the possibilities