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'Bigger is better may be just a myth when it comes to PCG mergers'
Rapid moves to merger by primary care groups may be a mistake as there is no evidence that bigger is better, according to the National Primary Care Research and Development Centre.
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Gordon's generosity could become a spent force
COMMENT : Does his largesse only flag up the NHS's insatiable appetite for resources?
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We need standard bearers
For decades, healthcare professionals and technologists have been trying to bring about fast and easy access to vital information. They should finally achieve this goal through the convergence of the Internet and health - e-health.
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Lock, stock-take and barrel
PRIMARY CARE : An analysis of primary care groups' investment plans revealed important gaps, write Brenda Leese and Stephen Gillam
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Internal market is swept away in NI
Health boards and trusts in Northern Ireland have been set tough targets of reducing waiting lists by 48,000 and cutting the number of patients waiting longer than 18 months by half within the next year.
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King's Fund Millennium Awards
Ife Piankhi from the Black Angels Mothership Community Project and her daughter Kha'mara join Tony Banks MP, Rabbi Julia Neuberger, chief executive of the King's Fund (right), and Isabella Kpobie from the King's Fund (left) at the launch of the King's Fund Millennium Awards, which total £1. 3m and will ...
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e-governing around the world: Singapore
The government's internal management consultancy, the Performance and Innovation Unit (www. cabinet-office. gov. uk/innovation), last autumn looked at other countries'attempts at e-government, and found some doing a lot better than the UK.
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e-governing around the world: Australia
Australia gives a good idea of what is possible. As with the UK, it accepts tax returns online and most are submitted this way via people's accountants. Australia has well-developed government sites, and an interesting and fairly successful public-private partnership site, at www. maxi. com. au, through which state transactions ...
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One size doesn't fit all
The latest IT fad is the idea of single-system procurements for the whole of the NHS. The service has had more than its share of IT failures, but this is the first time an IT initiative could bring it to its knees.
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One gender, two agendas
Vitriolic press coverage, union battles and professional plaudits - Andrew Cole asked the NHS's only female health secretaries to recall their time in power
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Modernisation Agency is no longer 'hit squad'
The NHS Modernisation Agency looks set to take a developmental rather than a punitive approach, distancing NHS performance management from the hit-squad approach.
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Solid advice for standard bearers
BOOKS : Quality assurance A pathway to excellence By Diana NT Sale Macmillan 320 pages £18. 99
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'Golden hellos' form part of £56m package to get - and keep - staff
Campaigning by professional organisations for more to be done to improve GP and nurse recruitment and retention paid off this week, when health secretary Alan Milburn announced millions of pounds in 'golden hellos'.
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Trust staff get £50,000 to look after number one
Staff at Leicestershire and Rutland Healthcare trust are receiving £50,000 of pampering this month after managers agreed to match the government's one-off £25,000 payment to trusts to improve working lives in the NHS.
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Scots nurse review wants skills merger
The way primary care is delivered by community nurses in Scotland is set to change dramatically with publication of a review by the chief nursing officer calling for 'a radical modernisation of the public health nursing workforce'.
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The seven-year hitch
The government's proposed clampdown on new consultants doing private work was a last-minute addition to the NHS plan, and the determination to implement it came as a further surprise. Jeremy Davies explains