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Models of perfection
Small general hospitals will have to adapt and change if they are to survive.
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Key Points
Small general hospitals can adapt to changing demands in a number of ways. These include expanding day-case work and increasing outpatient services.
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Close call
When a health authority is looking for revenue savings, sooner or later its glance will fall on the local cottage hospital. But few such closure plans have been successfully completed, and some have caused HAs more time and effort than the savings justify. In almost every case, the HA has ...
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in person
Mark Taylor (above) has been appointed chief executive of Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospital trust. Mr Taylor was formerly chief executive of the Royal Brompton before its merger with Harefield. Former Harefield chief executive John Hunt becomes deputy chief executive and corporate management director of the new trust. Other appointments ...
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Income and health
INEQUALITIES ARE AT THE CENTRE OF LABOUR'S HEALTH AGENDA, BUT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HEALTH AND WEALTH IS NOT STRAIGHTFORWARD, ARGUES JOHN APPLEBY
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this week
Sylvia Diggory, the first ever NHS patient, shares a 1948 leaflet introducing the new service with Terry Waite at a 50th anniversary concert in Manchester. Ms Diggory was a 13-year-old patient at Park Hospital, Trafford, where Aneurin Bevan launched the NHS, and was picked to be part of the occasion. ...
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Confederation top team quits en bloc to leave Thornton alone at the helm
NHS Confederation chief executive Stephen Thornton appeared to be isolated at the head of the organisation this week after it emerged that the entire top management team he inherited just six months ago is quitting.
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CHCs' chief goes in job showdown
Community health councils' chief Toby Harris has resigned after a fierce row within the organisation over 'conflicts of interest'.
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Widdecombe returns in Tory reshuffle
Outspoken right-winger Ann Widdecombe has been made shadow health secretary in a reshuffle of the Conservative front bench.
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BMA to rewrite clinical competence guidance
Doctors' leaders are to issue new guidance to medical directors in a bid to ensure whistleblowers can take their fears about senior colleagues' clinical competence to managers working outside the trust concerned.
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Dudley drops competitive tendering plans
A controversial scheme to market test community nursing has been dropped after the sudden departures of the chair, chief executive and chief nurse of the trust providing the service.
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Human resources strategy delayed until the autumn
The government's promised new human resources strategy for the NHS has been delayed until the autumn, the Journal has learned.
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Manager and 999 crew get formal warning
A manager who ordered an ambulance crew to give her and a colleague a lift home after a night on the town has been disciplined. The move follows a four-week inquiry sparked by a tip-off from a member of staff.
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Royal family values
Royal family values: harnessing 'all the knowledge and skills available to us' from both orthodox and other medical traditions was 'not a wholly revolutionary proposal', Prince Charles told a conference organised by the Foundation for Integrated Medicine. But he recalled that his well- known sympathy for complementary medicine had caused ...
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Unison says pounds3.60 minimum wage will affect few and vows to fight on
One healthcare assistant in 10 is likely to benefit from the proposed pounds3.60 national minimum wage, public service union Unison predicted this week. But it says it intends to go on fighting for a rate of pounds4.61.