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Auditors argue for housing focus to beat bed blocking
Emergency hospital admissions and bed blocking could be reduced if health authorities and local authorities tackled basic housing issues, a spending watchdog has argued.
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Senior medics vote 'no confidence' in trust chief
Senior medical staff have passed a vote of no confidence in a trust chief executive.
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WEB WATCH
Chief medical officers tend to be remembered, if they are remembered, for some concrete achievement. In the case of Sir Kenneth Calman, who retires later this year, either the Calman-Hines cancer framework or even his work on improving the lot of the junior doctor would be a fitting testament.
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It's not a letter of credit
At a stroke, health secretary Frank Dobson has removed the right of trusts to determine the pay and rations of their top teams.
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Fax and figures
Just as a row over closures and cost savings was cooling down, a minor clerical error reignited it.
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Screen hero
Whistleblower Neil Woodward brought to light serious flaws in cervical screening at Kent and Canterbury trust, yet tells Mark Gould he feels his action has made him unemployable in the NHS
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Occupied territory
Good occupational health makes financial sense, but many trusts don't realise it. Mark Crail reports
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All quiet on the front line
Managers believe performance indicators have some - limited - value. But junior doctors and other frontline staff are often ignorant of their existence. Maria Goddard and colleagues report on a study of eight hospitals
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Key Points
Managers interviewed in hospital trusts, health authorities and regional offices believed performance indicators to be broadly helpful. But our study found evidence that the role of the current performance indicators is distinctly limited.