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Suspended judgement
A nursing home designed with stakeholder input exposed patient advocates to the highs and lows of bringing a project to fruition, as Simon Jones and Paul Mercer report
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Hic hic hooray
The government may at last be getting somewhere with its national strategy on alcohol misuse - but what are A&E staff already doing to manage the problems they encounter? Lynn Eaton reports
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Here's looking at you, kid
The NHS should welcome local authority scrutiny committees monitoring its services. Only politics and ignorance are preventing it from doing so, says Paul Corrigan
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Financial gaps in frameworks could knock NHS plan for six
Major financial gaps in agreements between trusts and health authorities across England threaten to hamper the delivery of services promised in the NHS plan.
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Ill effects
Software for the NHS's new integrated payroll and human resources system is set to include a controversial 'scoring'system that some say drives staff to work when they are ill. Chris Gallagher reports
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Grim reading of Redfern encourages pathological fear of organ donation
As I type I am listening to Professor Dick van Velzen of Alder Hey Hospital fame explaining to Radio 4's To d a y that the organ donor scandal which gripped the country for much of last week was not really his fault.
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Keeping a sense of the whole as the parts diverge
Devolution may lead to glaring disparities in provision of care
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Democracy stripped by a layer
Abolition of Welsh HAs has thrown their staff 's lives into uncertainty
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Dear Mel. . .
What exactly is this Nyebevan thing people keep talking about in the NHS ? What did it do and why is it important ?
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Days like this
The future of the government's waiting-list initiative is in doubt because of a row over how the £35m for 1991-92 is to be spent. Crisis talks are taking place between health minister Virginia Bottomley and John Yates of Birmingham University, who heads a project targeting the NHS's worst lists. He ...
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Fresh negotiations due on consultants' contracts
Consultants' leaders are to meet health secretary Alan Milburn on Tuesday in an attempt to kick-start negotiations on the new consultant contract. Talks stalled last month, with the British Medical Association claiming NHS Executive negotiators had failed to produce concrete proposals for the new contract, which is meant to come ...
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Confed makes plea on dental strategy
The government needs to look at more imaginative ways of using NHS dentists and dental assistants if it is to fulfil its pledge for everyone to have access to NHS dental treatment by September, the NHS Confederation has warned.
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Join the club
Doctors agree that the GMC's old-boy network image must go. But they are arguing about how to achieve this, as Mark Gould explains
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Chief executives and project will tackle staffing
Trust chief executives across London have agreed to organise agency staffing jointly through the London Agency Project. The project, based at London regional office, has invited staffing agencies to bid for London-wide contracts to provide nurses and other staff, initially in accident and emergency, critical care and operating theatres. The ...