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The New NHS
The New NHS demands that trusts will ensure that good practice, ideas and innovations, when they have been evaluated, are systematically disseminated within and outside the organisation, writes Jonathan Hazan. Trust chief executives will be made ultimately responsible for their quality of service. 'Clinical governance' is the buzz phrase.
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Do you Read me?
The Read codes have been dogged by controversy. But the real question is whether they can be adopted across the NHS, says Mike Cross
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Two cheers for HISS
The hospital information support system project has suffered heavy criticism. But supporters say it has benefits that don't show up in the figures, writes Peter Mitchell
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Past tense - future imperfect
The lessons from total purchasing suggest that tensions between primary and secondary mental
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Key Points
Experience from total purchasing sites suggests that commissioning mental health services in primary care will be difficult to achieve.
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IMPROVED PERFORMANCE COMES FROM TRUSTS TAKING POSITIVE ACTION
The incomplete and inconclusive quotation from the academic responding to documented, empirically produced facts about the trends in clinical indicator performance was disappointing ('Doubts cast on dramatic fall in hospital deaths', News, page 6, 14 May).
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ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL WITH WELLHOUSE TRUST... AND MS MANERO
Your News Focus ('Fax and figures', pages 10-11, 14 May) correctly identified how optimistic Wellhouse trust is about the future.
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WHY, OH WHY, IS BART'S HOSPITAL TO BE NEEDLESSLY DOWN-SCALED?
Hearing hospital waiting lists are longer than ever, I am reminded that local pensioners are denied access to Bart's, which, though within walking distance, is standing largely unused.
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Monitored
What could possibly be behind the Mirror's extraordinary front- page attack on Dobbo last week? You know the one: 'Embarrassed Mr Dobson? You should be bloody well ASHAMED.' Reliable sources suggest it is all to do with Mirror boss David Montgomery's desperate need to carve out a market position sufficiently ...
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Shades of Gray
The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy's new chief executive is no expert in physiotherapy, but says he understands the profession's needs, writes Linda Davidson
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The rest is silence
The National Blood Authority board meeting made little drama out of its latest crisis. Lyn Whitfield reports
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Wake-up call
The government's declaration that community care has failed should galvanise mental health professionals into action. Cathy Cooper reports
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The survey's findings
Only 4 per cent of commissioners work solely on mental health purchasing, translating into two or fewer whole-time
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End this shambles
'One might have expected just a whisper of concern to escape someone's lips. It was not what you would call a wholehearted conversion to the world of open government'
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A question of accountability
What more damning indictment could there be of the internal market than NHS chief executive Alan Langlands' admission (see News, page 5) that he had not known about the failure of cervical screening services because it was 'not the way we were running the health service in those years'?