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Panel beaters please apply
For an organisation which restructures itself more frequently than the Italian government, the NHS doesn't seem to do it very efficiently. In its pursuit of political correctness and 'visible equity' the NHS treats its staff unfairly, prolongs disruption and damages clinical services.
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WEB WATCH
There are times when the Institute of Management gives a good impression of suggesting that if you're not running a FT-SE 100 company then you are not really managing. Its last annual management pay survey reported rises of 10 per cent for directors due to 'business growth'. Eat your heart ...
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A passion for Prudence which fills Gordon's heart
This column tries to resist conspiracy theory. All the same I couldn't help wondering why the 'Constitutional Declaration' that Tony Blair and a very happy Paddy Ashdown signed last week had been timed to coincide with Gordon Brown's big public spending statement, which put it in the shade.
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How to tell if the NHS is serious about improving the nation's health
I read with interest 'All quiet on the front line' (pages 24-26, 14 May), as performance indicators are, on the face of it, a very useful tool and appear to provide a sensible transition from management theory to management practice. Defining a standard, measuring performance, comparing performance to the standard, ...
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Let me know if you care about sharing
Roy Sharma (Letters, 4 June) asked: 'Why are we so close to the primary care group deadline without vision, partnership and plans?'
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There's no need to gloss over the facts
An Office for Public Management survey ('Off message', pages 26- 27, 7 May) suggests that many people feel glossy publications produced by the NHS are a waste of public money.
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The change of career that's not as bizarre as it's made out to be
I have spent the past week pondering the bizarre career change I made 15 years ago.
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Low pay and poor working conditions, but the reward is helping to deliver high-quality care
While I agree with Simone Plaut's view (Letters, 4 June) that managerial, secretarial, financial and maintenance professionals in healthcare would not generally have a direct patient interaction role, I would point out that in the case of medical secretaries, it is highly likely that they will interact with patients frequently, ...
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Laying to rest the question of funding - in beds for those in and outside Herefordshire
Your news story (page 7, 4 June) on Herefordshire Community Health trust's funding problems was largely accurate, but the health authority never expected the trust to run a new 32-bed hospital for the same money as an old 18-bed hospital.
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Involve the voluntary sector in new PCGs
Like many of your readers I am interested in the formation of primary care groups - especially since the timescale for introducing them is relatively short.
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Is the use of such data 'new or true' ?
John Appleby (Data briefing, 4 June) is misleadingly dismissive of the substantial body of evidence suggesting a causal relationship between income inequality, poor health and raised mortality.
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Situations vacant
Twenty years ago, the brightest and best medical graduates were queuing up to become GPs. Today, general practice is acknowledged to be in serious difficulties. The number of young doctors entering GP training schemes fell by more than 20 per cent in the 10 years to October 1997, more doctors ...
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The out-of-hours doctor who quit general practice to 'get a life'
Paddy Glackin spent two years as a GP principal in north London before deciding he wanted 'to get a life'. Now he works for two London out-of- hours co-operatives and often takes time off to travel abroad.
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The locum who switched to the private sector in a search for 'consistency'
The uncertain future of general practice in the NHS was one of the factors that made Kevin Ling switch to the private sector.
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Attracting more young GPs: successful schemes in County Durham and south London
County Durham has one of the oldest established schemes to attract young GPs. Now entering its third year, 'Career Start' has already offered 15 vocationally trained GPs the opportunity to sample work in general practice without making a life-long commitment to one surgery. Two have now taken up partnerships within ...
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The public health specialist who fled 'marriage' to half- a-dozen GP partners
A growing interest in public health and a dissatisfaction with general practice led Steve Hajioff to make a major career change in his 30s.
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Building to scale
One of the new Primary Care Act pilot sites, Community Health Sheffield trust in partnership with a Sheffield inner city GP practice, is developing a 'salaried practice'. This raises several issues, including developing the GP salary scale, GPs' fears about their relationship with the trust, and concerns about management and ...
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Whine lists
GPs are now said to be working harder than ever - but are things really so bad? Fifty years ago the average GP had a list of 3,000 patients.The average figure masked the fact that huge numbers of GPs had larger lists, sometimes much larger.
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Fears of Treasury meddling with IM&T
Leading computing suppliers fear that Treasury interference with the coming NHS IM&T strategy will leave unsolved their main problem - the byzantine procurement procedures imposed on trusts wanting to spend more than a trivial sum on their IT projects.
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'Reforms to blame' for upheaval in Scotland
Conflicting reforms are set to cause a major IT upheaval in Scotland's NHS, according to Unison.