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LIZ in a tizz
Set up to close the primary care service gap between London and the rest of the country, the LIZ programme has achieved little beyond improved premises. And, say Richard Lewis and Susan Williams, the capital's underperformance still needs urgent attention
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London still needs to address:
the large number of premises requiring upgrading or replacement;
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Qualified support
The NHS human resources strategy was broadly welcomed at the HR managers' conference last week. But funding, coercion from the centre and consistency of standards were some of the concerns. Barbara Millar and Mark Crail report
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It's cold outside
The second annual forum of trust and health authority chief executives found them voicing bitter complaints about New Labour's command and control style. Peter Davies and Pat Healy were there
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Penetrating the corridors of power
NHS chief executives should play dirty and learn political advocacy so that they could manage upwards as well as downwards, said Labour peer Baroness Young, chair of English Nature and former IHSM president.
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Chips with everything
Already stretched to their limits by the year 2000 bugging imbroglio, IT managers are now be asked to deliver on Frank Burns' punishing new strategy. Can it be done, wonders Peter Mitchell
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In a class of their own
The Liberal Democrats took a leaf out of education policy with calls for a health National Curriculum. Patrick Butler listened to heated debates on rationing
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Take it up with the kipper
It's easy to make jokes about managerial incompetence - and note how most management jokes are derogatory.1 'Mushroom management' became an NHS cliche in the 1980s, with managers claiming they were kept in the dark. Now there are seagulls and kippers. The former fly in, dump all over the workers ...
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Time for ministers to bring the execs in from the cold Practical politics demands that chief executives be given more trust
You do not need to be a student of Machiavelli to realise that anyone who seeks to lead a large-scale enterprise must rely on able and committed lieutenants on the ground to bring their plans to fruition. Fostering a sense of well-being among them is crucial to success. And integral ...
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Fighting for a seat at the table
Who should sit on the boards of primary care groups? Clinicians and managers are worrying about who should be represented - and in what proportions - as PCGs assume central importance in the 'new NHS' and we are urged to be less competitive and more collaborative.
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IT strategy loosens Whitehall red tape
The Whitehall straitjacket on IT procurement is being loosened as part of a 'radical modernisation programme' for information management in the NHS.
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Steely determination: why ministers are resolved to make modernisation work
Ministers have a 'steely determination' to make the NHS IM&T strategy succeed, its author, Frank Burns, said this week.
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'We must get stronger at becoming facilitators of change'
Helen Munro jokes that she first learnt negotiating skills in 1976 when she was doing voluntary work in Nigeria for a medical missionary organisation and a would-be suitor attempted to exchange her for a herd of cattle and some sheep.
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Welsh trust consultation closes in face of local anger
Public consultation on plans to halve the number of trusts in Wales has closed with a whistle-stop tour of areas opposed to the changes by Welsh health minister Jon Owen Jones.