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IT IS LEADERSHIP, NOT STRUCTURE, THAT MATTERS IN MENTAL HEALTH
Between them, Richard Higgins (Letters, 5 February) and Matt Muijen (Community Spirit, 22 January) pose the key questions for health service practitioners and managers. I hope some of the answers will be illuminated by direct experience of those caring for people with a mental illness.
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CHCS HAVE BEEN SURVEYING PATIENTS FOR YEARS
I read with interest Shirley McIver and Philip Meredith's article on the white paper ('There for the asking', pages 26-27, 19 February) as it raised the issue of how difficult it is to get meaningful data from the general public.
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TELEPHONE ADVICE SERVICE NEEDS UNIFIED STRATEGY
Letters about telephone advice (19 February) serve to illustrate the positive and negative aspects of current approaches to health service provision.
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CALL FOR HELP FROM OTHERS IN SIMILAR SCHEMES
I am the team co-ordinator for health staff in a joint health and social services mental health resettlement scheme.
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Monitor
Monitor is delighted to see that the Institute of Health Services Managers is still at the cutting edge of research into management issues. To coincide with a 'merger mania' conference last week it issued a 'strictly embargoed' press statement detailing a survey of 'managers from across the NHS'. Its findings ...
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Mergers must have meaning
We need to cure 'merger mania' - or more accurately, to take the mania out of mergers. In April, the first wave of trust mergers will kick- start radical change to the shape of acute services. Mergers have always been a political hot potato, causing local headaches for the government, ...
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Management today is full of dsfdfs BY MICHAEL WHITE
John Maples is not a happy man. Though he gets tipped (sometimes) as one of the successes of William Hague's soon-to-be-reshuffled team, he is still smarting over Frank Dobson's reshuffle of 886 seats on NHS trust boards. Details were craftily issued just as Commons health question time ended.
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Key implications
Cholesterol screening programmes are unlikely to reduce mortality and can be misleading or harmful.
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on the record
SIMON STEVENS, 31, is health secretary Frank Dobson's special adviser for policy. He has previously worked as a health authority director, at London teaching hospitals, in mental health in the North East, and in Guyana and New York. He went to Oxford and Strathclyde universities.
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In person
John James has been appointed director of community and specialist health services at Hounslow and Spelthorne Community and Mental Health trust. He joins from King's Healthcare trust, where he was clinical services manager for two-and-a-half years. Previously he was chief executive of the former Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster family ...
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LibDems call in safe-sex guide academic to rewrite manifesto
A former chief executive of the Health Education Authority, who quit after falling out with Conservative government ministers over a 'smutty' safe sex guide for children, is to help the Liberal Democrats overhaul their health policy.
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Earthbound and liable to erupt
Health secretary Frank Dobson and the cerebral MP for York Hugh Bayley are old friends; together with public health minister Tessa Jowell, they form a trio of ex-Camden councillors who have become key players in New Labour's health agenda.
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Clark sets up public services panel
Focus groups are the flavour of the month in government circles. The latest - dubbed, inevitably, 'the People's Panel' - has been set up by public services minister David Clark.
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Hansard
The government is 'deeply concerned about the possibility of unfairness in the distinction awards scheme' for consultants, and is 'considering what further action might be taken', said health minister Alan Milburn in response to High Peak Labour MP Tom Levitt, who asked if merit awards would be investigated.
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Key Points
Employing an extra social worker at a 600-bed acute hospital over three winter months (January to March 1997) and extending the opening hours of the medical assessment unit reduced delayed discharges.
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Total commitment
GPs and senior managers in a deprived locality tested GP commissioning with successful outcomes. Roger Levesley describes the project