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Resources and staffing couuld blight NHS plan timetable hopes
The government's modernisation agenda for the NHS is not achievable within the current timetable unless resources and staffing are increased, according to finance directors.
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Search is on for best players
As the NHS hurtles through more change, HSJ and Birmingham University's health services management centre invite managers to join this year's Management Challenge. Lyn Whitfield outlines how it stimulates real-world problems - and solutions
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Review call over critical care beds in Wales
There are significant variations in performance and facilities between trusts throughout Wales and a particular need to review critical care bed capacity as well as district nursing and diabetes services, according to the Audit Commission.
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Health and Social Care Bill faces Lords battle
The row over controversial measures in the Health and Social Care Bill is set to reach a climax in the next fortnight as it reaches its report stage in the Lords, where the government does not have a majority.Liberal Democrat and Conservative peers have signalled their intention to challenge the ...
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Backing up courage with cash
Radical ideas are the future - but they must be matched with resources
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Labour criticised over attitude to public health
A supposedly key public health report published last week should have been released 18 months ago and will 'not set the heathers alight', a health expert claims.
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Conservative attacks choice of appointments chair
The appointment of South East regional chair Sir William Wells as chair of the new NHS Appointments Commission has prompted fierce criticism from shadow health secretary Dr Liam Fox.Sir William will head a team of regional commissioners responsible for recruiting and appraising non-executives.Dr Fox described the appointment of Sir William ...
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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