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Down's syndrome inquiry puts trusts on discrimination alert
All trusts providing paediatric cardiac surgery have been told to consider how to implement 119 recommendations made by the independent inquiries into services at the Royal Brompton Hospital and Harefield Hospital.
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Qualification aims to raise social care standards
A three-year degree-level social work qualification is to begin from 2003 as part of a bid to raise social care standards.
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Modernisation Agency chief 's nurturing vision quashes fears of 'hit squad' role
David Fillingham, chief executive at North Staffordshire Hospitals trust, has been appointed director of the NHS Modernisation Agency, signalling a softly-softly approach from the organisation which officially starts work this week.
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Concrete action
Local health services in one of London's most deprived boroughs knew they would have to work hard to conduct an effective public consultation on a new primary care trust, write Kate Roe and Hilary Scarnell
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On the shelf
Hospital mortuaries are not subject to mandatory inspection and have been under-resourced for years.Now specialists warn that Bedford Hospital's 'bodies on the chapel floor'scandal could easily happen elsewhere. Barbara Millar reports
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Time to remember
The learning disabilities white paper is being trumpeted as a revolution in care that will bring an end to the NHS's neglect of the forgotten generations. Thelma Agnew reports
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THE PERSUADERS
Name: Dame Rennie Fritchie Job: Commissioner for public appointments Style: 'Wonderfully human'scourge of cronyism who 'cares very much about the NHS'.Colleagues say she's 'warm, empathetic'and 'absolutely fantastic - everyone falls under her spell', though she has been 'hard-nosed and tough' in pursuing allegations of cronyism.Her scathing report on NHS appointments ...
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It never rains but it pours
Parliament is awash with legislation - recently passed or in the pipeline - that has enormous implications for the health service. Tash Shifrin reports from an HSJ conference that tried to keep delegates afloat
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monitor
If There is anything that surpasses Monitor's deep interest in all matters clinically governant, It is his love of literature. So it was with pleasure - and, indeed, awe - that following Northumberland Mental Health trust's recent agony aunt-style guide ('Dear Diary, my girlfriend and I have been going out ...
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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 ...