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It's safe to come out now
In a break with tradition, there was not a single pot shot at health service managers during the political conference season. Patrick Butler wonders if 'mature' debate is, indeed, the order of the day
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Laugh? I nearly cried: conference comedians
Some thought Ann Widdecombe's line, 'The Conservatives are, and always have been, 100 per cent committed to the values of our health services', was a joke. It wasn't.
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On the transfer list?
Managers were dissatisfied when health minister Alan Milburn refused to make guarantees about jobs or places on PCG boards at the IHSM/AMGP primary care conference.
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Kidney moans
Treatment for renal failure is missing its clinical targets. Mark Crail reports on new data
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Delegates may have worried about the future of managers in the reforms. But one a more local issue they were absolutely clear. The merger between their two organisations was widely welcomed.
The new Institute of Healthcare Management will bring together both the old Institute of Health Services Management and the Association of Managers in General Practice.
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Whatever next?
Public service managers are trying to see into the future, not through a crystal ball but with a series of questionnaires. Mark Crail took a sidelong glance
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Scenario one: a third way
There was a time when patients expected the NHS to be there on demand, however trivial the complaint. Yet as people became better informed they came to realise the limits of what the tax system can deliver.
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Don't ignore the constructive message of the chief executives' forum
Your Comment (1 October) accurately reflected the feeling of chief executives at their recent forum that they wished to be more involved in NHS policy and wished to work on increasing their powers of influence.
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Hitting an upbeat note
While a number of those attending the chief executives' forum would recognise the somewhat bleak mood described, I suspect others would not.
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Tale of two views: were we at the same event?
Reading your report on the second annual forum of trust and health authority chief executives, I wonder: was I a guest at the same event?
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Managers come in from the cold Managers' social exclusion is the fault of the system that undervalues us
You report that chief executives feel they have become a 'socially excluded minority frozen out of policy-making and subject to rigid control from the centre' (News Focus, page 14, 1 October). You have also reported in recent weeks that a teaching hospital has found itself 6m in the red without ...
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London Initiative Zone: a capital idea whose legacy should be preserved
Six years as a GP principal in Greenwich leave me in no doubt that the pressures on primary healthcare services are rising. The London Initiative Zone was welcome, and many - patients and staff - have benefited from premises improvements ('LIZ: a legacy for London', pages 24-27, 1 October).
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The patients' guide - to reinventing the wheel
I was pleased to read Ian Wylie's review of The NHS Home Healthcare Guide (Books, page 35, 17 September).
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Key management role for those in the first line
Jaki Meekings' doubts about the level of management skill available in primary care (Letters, 8 October) are seriously misplaced. Are health authorities consistently successful in managing - or more correctly - in controlling NHS budgets?
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Another degree of support for staff education
I read with interest the brief item on collaboration between Ashworth and Sheffield Hallam University to offer a degree in forensic care (News, page 4, 27 August).
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Clinical psychology offers waiting list insights
I was interested to read John Henderson's letter (13 August) on a means of waiting list management in child and adolescent mental health services.