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A breach too far?
Plans to merge two trusts may have to be recalled from the health secretary's office this week and rethought - because the Department of Health appears to be unable to decide on the legal rules covering trust finances.
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New lease of life for PFI
Health ministers want to develop a 'hybrid' form of the private finance initiative which does away with the complications of service contracts. Matthew Limb reports from the Commons health committee
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Blair seeks to calm unions' pay fears
Prime minister Tony Blair last week moved to pacify health service unions angry that the independence of the pay review bodies had been undermined by new terms of reference set out in the comprehensive spending review.
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Doctors are fatter cats
Top doctors are earning more than chief executives in more than one-third of trusts, according to a survey of annual accounts.
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900 a session for surgeons in last-ditch bid to clear lists
Trusts are paying surgeons up to 900 for a half-day's work in a bid to clear waiting lists, it emerged this week.
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Two new health authority chairs have been appointed in the North West region.
Two new health authority chairs have been appointed in the North West region. Alan Bullen, who is leader of West Lancashire district council, becomes chair of South Lancashire HA. Vourneen Darbyshire, a solicitor, becomes chair of North West Lancashire HA. She is a former non-executive director of Blackpool, Wyre and ...
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NHS Confederation and IHSM should look at their own democratic legitimacy before criticising CHCs
I read with interest your story about the report on the future of community health councils (News, page 7, 2 July). It was indeed refreshing to be lectured on openness and accountability by the NHS Confederation and the Institute of Health Services Management.
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CHCs have a vital role in the future, but need to be revitalised - and appropriate funding made available
Your news article had a very strongly and rather negatively worded headline. It certainly caught the eye, but I do think that to use the word 'damning' was unnecessary.
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Recruitment and retention problems could be solved by identifying individuals who will stay
As a chartered occupational psychologist working in the area of recruitment and retention of individuals in a range of professions, I was most interested to read Alison Moore's article 'Situation vacant' (pages 24-27, 18 June).
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Blair said little about a healthier society
Your report of my comments on Tony Blair's speech at the NHS 50th anniversary conference (page 10, 9 July) was not correct.
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Evidence-based research and practice must be focused on achieving effective outcomes for patients
There is a connection between evidence-based practice, local clinicians' research work and the NHS research and development strategy but they are not all the same thing, nor are they consistently implemented across the country. It is too easy to put them all under one banner (Slow-acting remedy, page 24-25, 21 ...
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Support those people with mental illness plus drug or alcohol problems
There is an apparent belief that more emphasis on and investment in crisis response services, assertive outreach teams and 24-hour staffed accommodation will reduce the number of homicides committed by people with a serious mental illness. There is some merit in this belief, and the injection of new resources will ...
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Two issues for 2000
Medical device companies are not collectively refusing to sign the NHS Supplies Year 2000 deed (News, page 7, 2 July). The Association of British Health-Care Industries has advised its members that an alternative declaration should be submitted.
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in brief
The Lord Chancellor's Department is expected to launch a code of practice today aimed at cutting the time and cost involved in clinical negligence cases. The pre-action protocol has been drawn up by Clinical Disputes Forum, which represents lawyers, doctors and victims of medical accidents.
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Social services checks find one in four 'failing'
A quarter of the social services departments scrutinised by the Audit Commission and Social Services Inspectorate are failing and show little prospect of improving, says a report published this week.
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National Audit Office report shows trusts miss their financial targets
Four trusts missed all three financial targets last year, the National Audit Office has revealed.
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Angry GPs' leaders divide along fundholding faultline in debate over future direction of PCGs
GP leaders from across the old fundholding divide have clashed over the future direction of primary care groups.
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Ministers claim reform schedule is 'realistic'
Ministers this week outlined what they called a 'demanding' but 'realistic' timetable for implementing the next stages of their health service reforms.
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Monitor
Monitor's aura is positively shimmering with dismay at having missed last week's conference in Lancaster on 'faith in healing and healthcare provision', with its sessions on shamanism, circle and cross dances and 'angelic influences', whatever they might be. University College of St Martin, which organised the event, is clearly displaying ...