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Money where the mouth is
At last week's HC2001 conference, junior health minister Gisela Stuart struggled to close the gap between rhetoric and reality on NHS IT. Lyn Whitfield reports
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Lord Hunt in hospital safety plea
Junior health minister Lord Hunt has called on trust boards and senior managers to end the 'traditional neglect' of basic hospital safety issues such as cleanliness and infection control.
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Moving the goalposts
A surgical directorate's approach to setting comprehensive targets for consultants has increased the number of patients treated and boosted confidence, say Kath Craig and Bill Thomas
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There is Methodism in their gladness
A choice well made Mutuality as a governing principle in residential care By Leonie Kellaher Centre for Policy on Aging 112 pages £15
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Public health still languishing in the 'ghetto'
Public health risks falling behind fix-and-mend medical services in the race for resources, despite government talk about dragging it 'from the ghetto', according to a report from the Commons health select committee.
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Framework must be more than good intentions
But its success depends on attitude changes beyond ministers' control
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GPs split on local financial incentives
Divisions have emerged between GP organisations about primary care incentive payments, with concerns raised that the scheme has by-passed the usual consultation process.
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Events
Clinical governance 5 April, London The Health Quality Service with the support of the National Council for Hospice and Specialist Palliative Care Services is holding a conference on 'Developing effective clinical governance practice in the hospice movement: influencing the government's thinking', looking at current best practice in hospice clinical governance ...
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Talking with dinosaurs
'All proposed guidelines from the royal colleges should be evaluated by NICE to avoid illegitimate job creation and cost inflation'
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'Public still has faith in doctors'- despite scandals
Despite the medical scandals at Alder Hey and the Bristol Royal Infirmary, the public still trusts doctors, according to an opinion poll by the British Medical Association and MORI.Eighty-nine per cent of those surveyed trusted doctors to tell the truth and 89 per cent were 'fairly'or 'very'satisfied, although the proportion ...
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Dead-end job: is pay the real scandal?
After 10 years in the responsible job of a senior anatomical pathology technician,39-year-old Danny Corry is on a salary of just £13,500 a year.Fully qualified, with a diploma in anatomical pathology technology from the prestigious Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene, Mr Corry works from 8am until 4.30pm five ...
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Days like this
Health authorities throughout the country are still embroiled in contract disputes as the deadline for implementing the internal market looms on 1 April.
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HR directors overwhelmed by flow of 'daily' initiatives
Directors of human resources are working an average 10-12 hourday, an NHS survey has revealed.
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Costs force trusts to reject scanner offers
Scottish trusts have been forced to turn down new MRI scanners designed to help meet cancer targets because they do not have the money to run them.
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Office conflict takes its strain
The NHS suffers a double dose of the problems associated with long hours spent at the ubiquitous computer terminal.
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'Colleagues just do not want to know'
Andrew Moultrie took a temporary job in the mortuary at Ninewells Hospital, Dundee - over 14 years ago.Now senior mortuary technical officer, at the top of scale MTO 2, he is on £16,500 and unlikely to progress further.'The only way I could get a regrading would be if we suddenly ...
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Chewing it over
A tool kit for the NHS plan By Roy Lilley Radcliffe Medical Press 203 pages £30
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So farewell, Casualty Watch
Was its success a factor in government determination to abolish CHCs?