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Minister stands by primary care trusts timetable despite GP fears
There will be no brakes on the momentum towards creating a first wave of primary care trusts by April 2000, despite GP warnings that the timetable is too tight, health minister Alan Milburn told MPs last week.
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Labour's NHS reforms put before Parliament
Legislation to implement the government's primary care and quality reforms is expected to be announced in the Queen's speech next week.
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Complaint procedure 'not seen as impartial'
NHS complaints procedures are 'not seen as impartial' and 'haphazard training' leaves some review panel convenors to 'make up the rules as they go along', a Commons select committee heard last week.
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CHCs raise fear over trusts' shift to 'managing' their property
Community health councils are planning to seek legal advice about moves by trusts to change their legal powers over NHS premises.
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City limits
In the first of an occasional series on the development of primary care groups in the north London boroughs of Enfield and Haringey, Kaye McIntosh reports that settling the size of units in this diverse catchment area has not been easy
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To have and to hold
Delegates to last week's NHS Primary Care Group Alliance conference expressed their worry that plans to let individual practices keep half of any savings made under PCGs will recreate the inequalities of fundholding. Kaye McIntosh reports
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Fiddlesticks or fact?
Is there any substance to opposition claims that waiting lists are being 'fiddled' by the use of subsidiary lists? Laura Donnelly examines this and other accusations of manipulating waiting-list statistics
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Teachers' pay is no model - it's fallen as well
Christine Hancock (Observations, 29 October) should not be seeking to raise nurses' pay to match teachers' pay. My wife is a teacher, and has a new colleague who is an ex-nurse. He says that as a nurse he went to work, did the job and went home.
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Suspensions: doctors not always in the wrong
I was disturbed to read your Comment (29 October) about the suspension of surgeons, 'Crack in the complacency', especially in the light of your sympathetic treatment of poorly performing managers on the same page. The fallacious deduction that an increase in the number of suspensions reveals a greater readiness to ...
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Still a long way to go on equal opportunities, and subjectivity doesn't help
At first I thought Steve Ainsworth's piece on equal opportunities ('Opportunities knock', 29 October) was a spoof. I suspect instead that he gives us a perfect illustration of why the NHS and so many other employers still have significant work to do on equal opportunities.
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The Institute of Health Services Management stands up and applauds its outstanding director
It is disappointing that Peyman Javidan continues to pursue his criticism of the Institute of Health Services Management's director (Letters, 5 November).
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PFI mortgages the future of the NHS, and professionalism is at risk when profit drives the system
David Stelmach (Letters, 15 October) feels it is not the role of the Society of Radiographers to influence trusts in their choice of cost- efficient ways to acquire high technology.
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The price of false prophecy
'Many cancer trials in recent decades have measured the end joint (the outcome) in terms of additional months or years of life. Trialists have been very reluctant to measure the quality of the additional time.'
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The price of false prophecy
'The cancer industry provides much advocacy and little evidence of cost-effectiveness...
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WEB WATCH MARK CRAIL
London's 32 boroughs spent an estimated £126m on mental health services in 1997-98 - more than the combined total for all other metropolitan districts, and almost a quarter of the entire local government spend on such services across the whole of England and Wales.
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Showing a flicker of life but firing blanks at Dobbo
There are weeks when you wonder how long it will take the Tories to get their act together after the collective nervous breakdown they inflicted on themselves in the mid 1990s. 'I go canvassing - the voters still hate us, don't they?' a former Downing Street official confided at a ...
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Short cuts Welsh waiting list figures show 'downward trend'
Figures released by the Government Statistical Service show that the number of Welsh residents waiting for hospital admission on 30 September was 74,269 - down 1,747 on 31 August. Welsh health minister Jon Owen Jones welcomed the 'positive downward trend' but condemned as 'completely unacceptable' a further rise in the ...
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Short cuts Solihull's public health director is joint appointment
Solihull health authority and Solihull metropolitan borough council have appointed a joint director of public health. Andrew Richardson, previously director of commissioning/consultant in public health medicine with Worcestershire HA, has taken up the post, thought to be the first joint appointment of its kind in the country. HA chief executive ...
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Short cuts Central Scotland 'over-payment' inquiry reports
An independent inquiry into allegations of over-payments to senior managers at Central Scotland Healthcare trust is due to hand its findings to the trust board and the procurator fiscal. Trust chief executive Derek Pollacchi has been suspended on full pay since July, when internal auditors highlighted 'areas of concern'.