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Anger as green paper falls short on inequalities and funding pledges
Public health and mental health experts have attacked the government's long-awaited public health green paper for not going far enough to tackle problems.
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Taking aim
The government has selected four key targets for 2010 to replace the 27 in The Health of the Nation:
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Past recovery
Past recovery: staff clear out Ye Oldest Chymist Shoppe in England, which was founded in Knaresborough in 1720 and closed last week. 'We just have too many chemists in a small town,' said owner Stewart Newsome. Knaresborough's chamber of trade hopes a museum might be set up on the ground ...
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Doubting David's healthy concern for Britain's ills
The paragraph which leapt from the pages of the public health green paper, Our Healthier Nation, was the one which proclaimed 'a third way between the old extremes of individual victim-blaming on the one hand and nanny-state social engineering on the other. Good health is no longer about blame, but ...
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Cash on delivery
Despite last week's resignation of the Lottery regulator, and calls for tighter control of the game, the Lottery remains an enticing source of funding. But tapping it is far from simple. Barbara Millar reports
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National Lottery Charities Board membership
Chair: Hon David Sieff, non-executive director, Marks & Spencer
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DEVELOPING PROFESSIONAL JUDGEMENT IN HEALTH CARE Learning through the critical appreciation of practice By Della Fish and Colin Coles Butterworth Heinemann 318 pages pounds17.99
Professionals are under siege. Their one-time autonomy is no longer sacrosanct, partly because patients and clients are more knowledgeable and partly because they are more suspicious. Even doctors, who have for so long inhabited the higher slopes of exclusivity, find their patients challenging their judgement, even as far as the ...
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In person
David Black has been appointed medical director of Queen Mary's Sidcup trust, where he has been a consultant physician and geriatrician for the past 10 years. Dr Black was also previously clinical director of the adult medicine directorate and a part-time operations manager at the trust.
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PERFORMANCE FRAME WORK
WHAT MECHANISMS SHOULD REPLACE 'FINANCIAL COMPETITION' AS THE SPUR TO IMPROVING POOR PERFORMANCE? JOHN APPLEBY REPORTS ON THE NEW FRAMEWORK
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A tale of four cities
Five inner-city general practices, four very different experiences. Kate Adams describes life for patients and staff at practices in Liverpool, Belfast, Glasgow and London
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Take your partners
The white paper emphasises collaboration and puts forward a range of proposals. But is there a
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Key Points
The white paper proposals for partnerships in the NHS of the future are much less developed than those for performance.
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Adding to local divisions
White paper proposals to determine primary care funding according to a set formula will not solve
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Key Points
The white paper proposal to fund primary care groups according to a set formula is beset with difficulties.