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Open meetings must not become 'cosmetic'
Guidance setting out the detail of health secretary Frank Dobson's determination to 'end excessive secrecy in the NHS' says trust and health authority boards must not allow open meetings to become a 'cosmetic exercise'.
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2000 events test 999 services
Emergency services and hospitals in London will have to cope with 'around 1,000 millennium events', the government has warned.
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where are they now? No 92 PFI guidance Pocket profile:
A 'book of instructions' for NHS managers 'on how to do' private finance initiative projects.
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Modernising Social Services: the response
Bill Kilgallon, chair of Leeds Teaching Hospitals trust, and former chair of Leeds city council social services committee
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'Awful accountant' determined to rid the profession of its 'abominable no-men' image
The Healthcare Financial Management Association's new chair is touchingly keen to undermine the image of accountants as 'abominable no- men'.
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monitor
Even in the wonderful e-world of the NHS, technology can still go wrong. There was Big Al Langlands in Birmingham all set to deliver a Powerpoint presentation to the massed health authority and trust chairs when his laptop conked out. Not a bit dismayed, the resourceful Al had the NHS ...
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League tables omit half the clinical indicators promised by ministers
Fewer than half the clinical indicators promised by ministers last year have been included in revamped NHS league tables published this week.
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Fund urges realism on revamped charter
The Patient's Charter is 'flawed and constraining', and the government should consider carefully what it aims to achieve with a replacement, a King's Fund report has concluded.
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MPs told of new need for doctors
MPs have been warned that the European working time directive will create additional demand for extra doctors.
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on the record
TOM JONES is director and co-founder of MJM Healthcare Solutions Mental Health Strategies. He is also spokesman for the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. He was formerly director of finance and information at Herefordshire health authority.