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Ask the boss: the survey sample and methodology
The survey sample in 2000 comprised 64 managers in the most senior post responsible for mental health services in health authorities, local authority social services departments and NHS trusts in London.
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Trust apologises over defence-agency skin sales
Salisbury Health Care trust has apologised for not making it clear to plastic surgery patients that their surplus skin would be sold for chemical weapons research.The trust sold skin removed during breast and abdominal surgery to the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency at Porton Down for £17,000 a year.The trust ...
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Patients' groups angered by exclusion
Two major patients' organisations have expressed anger after they were left out of a Department of Health advisory group drawing up new guidance on getting patients' consent to treatment.
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Bristol report 'withheld' until after election
The Bristol inquiry has announced that its final report will not be completed until the end of March, when it will be sent to health secretary Alan Milburn.
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Highs and lows - what the survey reveals about pay
While ambulance trusts came out as the lowest average payers, the biggest single pay rise last year went to Gron Roberts, chief executive of Essex Ambulance Service trust, who received a 21.8 per cent pay hike.
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£27m in GP clawback suspended
The government has suspended this year's clawback of £27m in GP overpayments in return for improved patient services and a review of the complicated GP payments system.
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Obesity epidemic kills 30,000 each year as costs top £485m
An obesity epidemic is costing the NHS in England at least £480m a year, with costs to the wider economy probably in excess of £2bn, the National Audit Office has revealed.
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THE PERSUADERS
Name: Elizabeth Manero Job: Chair, London Health Link - the umbrella body for the capital's community health councils.
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Over the threshold
Bradford combines measures of both frequency and duration of absence, with a greater weighting placed on frequency. The formula S2D, or S x S x D, is used to calculate a 'score'or 'index'for a given period, usually a rolling year, where S is the number of spells of absence, and ...
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monitor
Monitor has been watching the appointment of our new top nurse - a lady and an American! - with excitement. Those RCN members not mutinously muttering 'who she?' about their new American general secretary Beverly Malone seem keen to offer themselves as her new best friend. The RCN's website discussion ...
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RCN outlines manifesto wish-list
The Royal College of Nursing has outlined its manifesto calling on the next government to provide funding for free long-term nursing care, tackle student nurse hardship and improve familyfriendly practices.
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Long and winding road
Refugee doctors could be a valuable resource for the NHS. But they face huge hurdles, including being charged for placements. Barbara Millar reports
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Who wants to know?
Do primary care groups and trusts have the resources and opportunities to commission research? And if they do, should they, asks Bonnie Sibbald
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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