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In the morale maze
GPs need to hang on to a certain amount of autonomy to provide a personalised service to their patients in the age of the primary care trust and patient protocols, argues Dr Andrew Spooner General practitioners are unhappy and reporting low morale. Among their complaints are increased paperwork and a ...
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Off message
The departure of the DoH's communications director has led to accusations of ministerial control-freakery over media relations.Could this be a sign of things to come, asks Laura Donnelly It is almost exactly a month since Tony Blair said today would be polling day. In one fell swoop, the civil service ...
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Sighs of relief as waiting times replace numbers as target priority
Health service managers may be able to celebrate this week as Labour's long-discredited waiting-list target looks set to bite the dust.
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A week in PR
As news about Helen McCallum's departure made headlines, another PR story was about to break.
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Return of the saint
Health minister Gisela Stuart, who first went to Parliament on St Gisela's day four years ago, is hoping she can hold on to her seat for a second term.Tash Shifrin met her on the campaign trail Been making plans for Friday 8 June? Junior health minister Gisela Stuart has no ...
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Theme and variations
Theme and variations: putting Scotland and Wales in the picture The pictures in Labour's Welsh and Scottish manifestos may be the same as those in the English ones - but there are subtle differences in the text.
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Days like this - HSJ 30 May 1991
Private healthcare set for boom. . . Managers believe reforms will not solve underfunding. . . Waiting list warning. . . Bed closures restrict training. . . Naming and shaming over hours
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Funding is sticking point as private sector pushes for 'concordat 2'
Negotiations for a second concordat between the private sector and the NHS covering long-term care are underway, with funding mechanisms one of the core issues to be resolved.
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Access systems fail on patient 'types'
Health service managers are failing to take account of how different people react to new ways of accessing health services, such as the Internet or NHS Direct, according to research from the Institute for Public Policy Research.
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Social services cash crisis will add to acute bed woes
The Registered Nursing Homes Association has written to the candidates of all the major political parties warning that shortfalls in social services finances will mean that many elderly people 'will get stuck in acute hospital beds for weeks on end because there are no nursing home places available to which ...
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GP wins redundancy claim after hospital closure
A GP who was employed by a trust to provide cover at a hospital elderly care ward has won an employment tribunal claim for redundancy payments after the sessions were ended due to the ward's closure. Dr John Campbell, who practises in Ashington, Northumberland, had been employed as a hospital ...