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Analyst warns that hospital merger savings are an illusion
Government hopes of saving pounds50,000 with every hospital merger are largely illusory, a leading health policy analyst warned last week.
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Picture this
Picture this: Pat Long was one of 40 students showing their art work at an exhibition in Leeds for participants in a course for people with mental illness. The exhibition, part-funded by Leeds Community and Mental Health Services trust, included drawings, paintings, collages and sculptures. Course co-ordinator Phil Hopkins said: ...
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Pressure increases to finance MS drugs
Health authorities could be under pressure to fund Betaferon treatment for thousands more patients - at a cost of millions of pounds - by the end of the year.
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Bad consultants face loss of merit awards
Hospital consultants who fail to meet new quality measures could have their merit awards withdrawn by the Commission for Health Improvement.
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Lighthouse nears rocks as consultation rethinks
Campaigners hoping to save the London Lighthouse HIV/AIDS centre as a health service facility have agreed to co-operate in a new consultation exercise which excludes it as a future provider of residential services.
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Pastures new
Toby Harris's controversial departure from the CHC movement comes at a time of deep uncertainty over its future, writes Patrick Butler
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Something of the fight?
With her appointment as shadow health secretary Ann Widdecombe's rehabilitation is complete.
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Ready for take-off
Comprehensive studies of primary care pilot schemes could provide ministers with justification for their reforms, writes Barbara Millar
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All aboard?
Senior finance managers are increasingly worried about how primary care groups will work. Lyn Whitfield reports on an exclusive HSJ/HFMA survey
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What they say about primary care groups
Mark Millar, finance director, Suffolk health authority
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Tender is the plight
Dudley health authority's move to sell community nursing to the highest bidder ended in resignations and retreat. Pat Healy reports
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Skye's the limit
Airline-style bookings, where patients know the date of their hospital appointments when they leave their GP, is part of a drive to improve electronic communications in the NHS in Scotland. Barbara Millar reports
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How one trust aims to extend its Wheech
Western General Hospital trust in Edinburgh is `'reinventing itself', creating 'one-stop shop' clinics and establishing a patients' council to oversee its progress.
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The NHS according to those who work in it Are alarm bells ringing yet in Richmond House?
Health ministers set great store by what they call evidence-based policy-making. Anxious not to repeat the mistakes of their Conservative predecessors, they make much of their laudable efforts to consult and evaluate: witness, for example, the comprehensive studies of the primary care pilot schemes (see pages 12-13). Not for them ...
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A new look for the millennium The times are changing - and so is HSJ
Renewal is a recurring theme of the late 1990s, spurred by the approach of the millennium. Today, this magazine renews itself in a format we are confident will continue to serve our readers' needs into the 21st century. In its 106-year history HSJ has undergone many metamorphoses. One of the ...
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An end to polls and wheezes
At the 3 July meeting of the NHS Confederation, the Institute of Health Services Management and the International Hospital Federation to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the NHS, a 'leading national figure' will discuss commitment to the new vision of the NHS. Who is this leading national figure? Is it ...
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Dapper Duncan joins Doris at the sharp end
It would be fun but wrong to suggest that the flurry of activity from health ministers in the past few days - all those promised extra doctors and hospital 'death lists' - is attributable to Ann Widdecombe's promotion to the shadow Cabinet in William Hague's reshuffle.