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Cruel illusions of progress
The reception given to the government's public health strategy green paper has, in marked contrast to The New NHS white paper, been rather muted. Perhaps things would have been different if, as originally intended, the green paper had preceded the white. As it is, the NHS agenda has assumed supremacy. ...
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The chance we've been waiting for
Last week the government announced a £500m Budget increase aimed at cutting NHS waiting lists to below 1.16 million by April 1999. Both prime minister Tony Blair and health secretary Frank Dobson have made clear this is the NHS's highest priority for the coming year.
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The mystery of where recently departed University College London Hospitals chief executive Charles Marshall has gone has been solved. Despite wild rumours he was to replace North Thames regional director Ron Kerr, it turns out Mr Marshall is to join the ranks of exNHS managers turned management consultants.
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WEB WATCH
You can't face the British Medical Journal, the Lancet is a real slog, and the New England Journal of Medicine brings you out in a cold sweat. So how are you going to impress all those high-powered consultants with your handy knowledge and easy grasp of the latest cutting-edge scientific ...
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Failing the acid test
What is the point of spending a million pounds a day on research if patients do not benefit, ask critics of the national R&D programme. Barbara Millar investigates
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Budding relationship
Assertive outreach has been touted as the saviour of community care. Dolly Chadda visited the Tulip project to find out how it works
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The nuclear option
Is 'contestability' any better than competition at improving patient care? Mark Crail reports
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More art than science?
Can management decision-making emulate the model of evidence-based medicine? To do so will mean fostering a research culture, says Rosemary Stewart
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Paving the way
Care pathways are a tool to standardise care. Kathryn Riley reports on a survey which found they are commonly being used in acute trusts and private hospitals
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Tory fight to save community units
In the wake of their failed assault on Labour's supposed manipulation of NHS board appointments, the Tories are massing for another attack: on the threatened closure of community hospitals.
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Hansard
The estimated total start-up cost of implementing the Putting Patients First white paper health reforms for Wales is £10m, with recurring costs of £7m a year. But they will provide savings of up to £50m over the next five years, said Welsh health minister Win Griffiths. (4 March, col 675)