All Mike Farrar articles – Page 8
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Local commissioning: DoH sets out skills PCTs will need
The Department of Health has set out the skills primary care trusts will need to deliver its vision for world class commissioning in the health service.
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Clinical engagement needs more teeth, says Farrar
The NHS should explore 'radical models of clinical engagement' to give clinicians 'more teeth' and to improve scrutiny of potential conflicts of interests, the new chief executive of North East strategic health authority has said.
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6,000 axed jobs will cost DoH £320m in redundancy pay-outs
EXCLUSIVE Human resources framework set to promise salary protection until March 2007
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Hospital closures a 'red herring'
CHOICE Farrar claims lack of spare capacity could undermine contestability policy
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The big sell: why It is time for hospitals to market themselves
PATIENT CHOICE Patient spotting
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Bacon to SHAs: stop 'headlong rush' to transfer PCT services
EXCLUSIVE Service delivery chief says provider changes should not be included in October plans
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'There is no such thing as a financial problem'
SHA super-chief executive Sir Ian Carruthers believes that when organisations fail, their shortcomings are often a symptom of faulty management thinking. Andy Cowper listens to his recipe for success