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Generous to a fault? What the experts say
King's Fund economists Sean Boyle and Anthony Harrison said: 'An extra £18bn in England over the next three years will bring total spending in the NHS to £46bn by March 2002.
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Invoking the past to help deliver all our tomorrows
So was it all worth it? For three short days the health service's 50th birthday extravaganza at Earl's Court commanded the presence of the great and good, as well as some high-ranking international guests and plenty of media attention. But in the process it almost bankrupted the NHS Confederation. Initial ...
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in brief
A small number of trusts have decided to give board-level directors no pay rise so that less senior managers can enjoy increases above the 2.7 per cent limit set by the Department of Health. A Pay and Workforce Research survey found three out of 50 trusts interpreting the pay ceiling ...
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Alzheimer's campaign challenges drug claims
The Alzheimer's Disease Society has challenged researchers' claims that new drug therapies could effectively pay for themselves by keeping patients out of institutional care.
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Total purchasing study predicts PCGs won't cut management bill
The introduction of primary care groups is unlikely to reduce NHS management costs in their first few years, a King's Fund report has suggested.
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Scottish trusts make 'unnecessary use of locum medical cover' as costs double
Poor management is to blame for the high cost of locum medical cover, a report by the Accounts Commission for Scotland says.
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The Scottish Accounts Commission's recommendations
Limit locum appointments to unavoidable or unplanned absences such as sick leave.
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Party time
Party time: health secretary Frank Dobson and the 'first NHS patient' Sylvia Diggory returned to Trafford General Hospital, where Aneurin Bevan launched the health service in 1948, to celebrate its 50th anniversary on Sunday (main picture). Meanwhile (from top), June Catterall (nee Salisbury), the first baby born into the NHS ...
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Going first class with the NHS
When The New NHS white paper was published six months ago, its focus on quality surprised many people. But while it made all the right noises, it also skilfully left much unsaid. The specifics would, we were told, be set out in a consultation paper.
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Birthday greetings to the one they love
Well, what a week. Hardly a dry eye in sight by the time the Great and Good emerged from Westminster Abbey after the service to celebrate 50 years of the NHS. 'I felt very proud just to be there,' one health minister told me, grateful to be in the right ...
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Hospital death rates
How useful are clinical performance measures? And will they prevent such tragedies as the Bristol baby deaths case? John Appleby reports
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Adding weight to measures
Health secretary Frank Dobson put quality at the 'heart of the NHS' in a warmly received speech, strongly reaffirming the government's commitment to the current financing of the service.
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First thoughts on A First Class Service
Senior figures in healthcare were quick to respond to health secretary Frank Dobson's proposals on quality.
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NHS chiefs told to answer back
Chief of health authorities and trusts were urged in a health service circular to respond to the quality consultation document A First Class Service. The main elements are:
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Recruitment dive
Promises outlined by health secretary Frank Dobson for the next 50 years would not materialise unless the acute nursing recruitment and retention crisis was halted, Royal College of Nursing general secretary, Christine Hancock warned.
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A 50th birthday resolution for the NHS: treat staff and users as adults
The issues for debate during the NHS's 50th anniversary concern its core values: professionalism, consumerism and the notion of the public sector.
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Local authority chiefs take less from the kitty
I am wholly in favour of top managers in the public services being properly paid, but 'Fair shares of the kitty' (cover feature, pages 24- 27, 25 June), in examining NHS pay levels, claimed that local authorities 'pay their chief executives as generously, if not more generously, than NHS chief ...
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Adapting and improving Scottish blood service
I read with interest your News Focus, 'In similar vein' (page 16, 18 June), and would like to clarify the strategy proposals put forward for the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service.