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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.
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Questions about HAs and health promotion
I agree wholeheartedly with Pam Cooper (Letters, 4 June) that health promotion specialists, by virtue of their experience in working across agency boundaries for many years, have the potential to make a major contribution to the development of health improvement programmes and primary care groups, given the organisational position of ...
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Together we can share responsibility for mental health
To allow mental health services to be 'single parents', as Matt Muijen recommends (Community Spirit, 21 May), is to condemn service users to a continuation of the nightmare that is much of current mental health provision in the inner city: disconnected services, dispirited staff and a blame culture in the ...
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Is the health service flawed or do HSJ readers enjoy self-flagellation?
In your 18 June issue, the first 12 stories carried the words 'victim', 'threat', 'attacks', 'doubts', 'revolt', 'marred', 'crisis', 'threatens', 'bad', 'pressure', 'rocks' and 'bully-boy'.
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London Lighthouse shines on for people living with HIV and AIDS
I am writing to object to the headline about London Lighthouse ('Lighthouse nears rocks as consultation rethinks', News, page 7, 18 June).
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Blair's speech: what the conference thought
Karen Caines, director, Institute of Health Services Management
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Flight of the charge brigade
NHS chief executive Sir Alan Langlands has given the clearest signal yet that the comprehensive spending review led by the Treasury, which is due out next week, will rule out charging at the point of access for any NHS services.
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Jarrold urges IHSM probe
The time has come for a fundamental review of the Institute of Health Services Management, former president Ken Jarrold told its annual general meeting.
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Professor predicts that patients will be given control of their care
The NHS of 2023 will be totally patient-focused and have no long waiting times and much waste, the conference was told.
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A handle on harassment
The government is about to launch a campaign against racial harassment to ensure consistent handling of the issue throughout the health service, including by independent contractors.
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Puzzling it out
When Tony Blair last addressed the annual conference of what was then the National Association of Health Authorities and Trusts, he said Labour would dismantle the internal market. He also pledged to avoid 'major upheaval'.
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Redbridge and Waltham Forest - from one model to another
This area shows the problems of trying to move from one commissioning model to another.
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Warwickshire - one of the biggest rows
Warwickshire has seen one of the biggest rows over the establishment of primary care groups.
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South and West Devon - an amicable process
This is one of the areas where the process of establishing primary care groups has been amicable.
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Enfield and Haringey - geographical obstacles
Enfield and Haringey is an area that illustrates some of the geographical obstacles to setting primary care group boundaries. Ron Singer, chair of Enfield and Haringey commissioning executive, told a recent 'pan-London' conference that after 'meetings, meetings, meetings' the health authority produced an options document that included proposals for five ...
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Sefton - initial hostility
There was initial hostility in Sefton to the whole idea of primary care groups. The local medical committee balloted its members, achieving a 61 per cent response rate, and found that 72 per cent were against the new organisations.
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All in a life's work
The jacket calls this 'a dazzling intellectual biography of one of the greatest management theorists and social thinkers of our time'. If one leaves out the first adjective, this is a fair description of its contents. It is an intellectual biography in the sense that it gives a chronological account ...
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Point your career in the right direction
Thinking of becoming an academic? Then this is the holiday reading for you. It tells you everything you need to know about academic careers, including the vital components of networking, teaching, researching and writing. What's that you say? You are already an academic. Hmmm, perhaps it might be better if ...