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Just what is an accident?
The green paper definition of an accident as an event which requires a visit to the GP or to A&E is 'interesting', says A&E specialist registrar Andrew Hobart. But he has his doubts.
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Going public
An interim report by Sir Kenneth Calman outlines proposals to bring public heath to the fore of the NHS in the longer term.
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news focus
Shenley Hospital pulled down its shutters and bolted its doors for good last month after saying goodbye to its final patient. In its heyday it had housed more than 2,000 mentally ill residents.
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heading to come
Tom McCarthy says: 'Community trusts recognise the writing is on the wall. A number have already begun to seek active alliances with GPs to safeguard their organisations. It makes sense because the trusts have the management expertise while GPs have the clinical expertise.'
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HA condemns failed merger
A health authority has threatened three trusts with job cuts after two of them refused to merge.
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Sleeping It Off
Sleeping It Off is one of 27 oil paintings by British artist Susan Macfarlane that seek to illustrate what it is like to live with childhood leukaemia. The paintings reveal a complex environment of laboratory testing and diagnosis, blood transfusion, the children's ward, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, bone marrow transplant and the ...
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Trust signs up to European working times directive
A trust has claimed a first by signing an agreement with staff on issues covered by the European working times directive.
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HA halts service transfer after threat of legal action
A health authority has stopped the transfer of specialist children's surgery between two London hospitals following a threat of legal action.
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Opponents fail to stop single Welsh trust
A single ambulance service trust is to be created in Wales next month despite vociferous opposition.
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Board approves changes as Lord Ewing speaks out
A Scottish health board this week gave the go-ahead to controversial proposals for service changes over which a trust chair dramatically quit.
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Joining health and social services 'not on agenda'
Integrated health and social services organisations are 'not on the current agenda', senior Department of Health officials have told MPs.
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Webster urges setting up NHS commission
The NHS's official historian has called for the creation of an NHS Commission to 'challenge received wisdom' and promote ideas for policy makers.
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Reassure public over MMR, managers told
Matthew Poulter, who has autism, was 15 months old when he was vaccinated with MMR. His mother Rochelle, from Brighton, said: 'He had been a sociable child but his speech just stopped. He was not saying anything, just grunts and moans. I am convinced it was the MMR.' Matthew and ...
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Ministers welsh on consultation
'Ministers appear to have made up their mind long before the consultation period ended, and... may even have done so before the public and health service had any say in it at all. That is not good enough'
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A change of body image
Fundholders' leaders have quite rightly come to the conclusion that the model has run its course (see News Focus, page 15). Contrary to their earlier predictions that this would send GPs into an apathetic sulk, however, it seems they have now decided to see the advent of commissioning as an ...
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TRUST INTEGRATION IS OBVIOUS AND LOGICAL
Thanks, Alan Randall. 'Why not trust in integration?' (Open Space, 12 February) is a nicely argued article which suggests integrated trusts are the obvious and logical way to organise local secondary care. (I suppose that is why they are not favoured.)
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DISAPPOINTING TO FOCUS ON WHY PRIMARY CARE GROUPS COULD FAIL...
It was with surprise and disappointment that I read Andrew Wall's article on The New NHS white paper ('From paper to practice', pages 28- 29, 19 February).
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...AND GIVE EXISTING PRIMARY CARE MANAGERS MORE CONSIDERATION...
In Andrew Wall's otherwise excellent article, when he discussed who would manage primary care groups, he comments: 'Such managers can presumably be found from redundant HA staff'. Nowhere does he consider existing primary care managers as being part of the new management arrangements.
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...BUT IT'S JUST A CLICHe TO EQUATE COMMITMENT WITH DESIRE FOR CONTROL
Oh no, not again - the tired old cliche about commitment being equivalent to the desired degree of control is trotted out. Andrew Wall treats level 4 as being for the 'ambitious', and levels below for the 'less committed'. He then adds insult to injury by suggesting that fundholding is ...