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Models for partnerships
Various models for public-private partnership are envisaged. For elective care, the concordat suggests that primary care groups and primary care trusts could rent accommodation from the private sector but use NHS staff, on their normal contractual terms, to deliver the service. Or a trust might 'sub-contract' the provision of a ...
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'Do not limit new models of scrutiny'
The NHS Confederation has given a guarded welcome to the Health and Social Care Bill's proposals for local authority scrutiny of NHS services.
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With PALS like these. . .
The framework for the patient advocacy and liaison service is there, but where's the detail, wonders Alison Moore
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Just keep it simple, stupid
Everywhere you look, performance measures are sprouting as the control freaks in Whitehall village seek to oversee every aspect of NHS activity. The old Soviet Union tried to exert this degree of control before the collapse of communism: it failed.We should learn from the comrades to keep it simple.
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Substantial pay hike likely for NHS laboratory staff
NHS staff not covered by the pay review body system are to receive a pay rise of 'at last 3.7 per cent', with substantial rises going to laboratory staff where there have been serious problems with recruitment and retention. Health minister John Denham said rises would be 'fair and affordable', ...
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Honour high
Many of those who have played a key role in delivering the NHS modernisation agenda found their work recognised in the new year honours.
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More frills than skills
Patients love the trappings of private treatment, says Anne Christie, but they may be less safe than in the NHS
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More joined-up working is the way forward post Langlands
Better regulation of health service professionals, more joined-up working across agencies, and targeted action in selected areas to improve equity of access are all needed to build on the significant progress made by the NHS under Sir Alan Langlands, according to the public accounts committee.
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High risks, scarce talent leave NHS fighting to fill top jobs
One in four top NHS jobs is vacant - and the gaps at the 'top table' of management mirror recruitment concerns at trusts across the country, HSJ sources have warned.
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Neurology services failing to meet waiting target
The Liberal Democrats have launched a damning report on neurology services, claiming that only one in five hospitals is able to offer an outpatient appointment within three months and nearly half offering appointments at least six months away. Health spokesman Paul Burstow claims that an extra 200 neurologists are needed ...
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'Families know they have a timebomb to face'
Louis Appleby was appointed national director for mental health in April last year, with a brief to 'spearhead the government's drive to modernise and reform mental health services'.
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Means to an end
Abortions are easy to obtain - but there are wide regional variations in who gets access to NHS-funded services, reports Claire Laurent
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Fears of inaccurate figures overshadow measles drive
Public health directors are considering a London-wide campaign to encourage more parents to have their children immunised against measles, amid fears of an outbreak of the disease.
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Let's drink to that
Fears that the concordat between the NHS and the private sector will lead to privatisation are unfounded. It is more likely to be the nationalisation of private medicine, says Joan Higgins
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Labouring under delusions
In the 1940s health minister Aneurin Bevan retained private practice and NHS pay beds, which represented everything he opposed, as the price of establishing the NHS.But when Barbara Castle became social services secretary in 1974, she launched an all-out assault on private practice, the consultant contract, NHS pay beds and ...
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Record funding fails to slow Scots hospital debt
Scotland's hospitals are facing rising levels of debt despite record levels of funding from the Scottish Executive.
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Dear Mel. . .
At a recent Christmas party at our clinic I was approached by a doctor with a lewd suggestion. Try as I might, this medic wouldn't leave me alone. And, well, one thing led to another and we ended up in bed. Do you think this will damage our working relationship ...
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Days like this
Alan Langlands, who has been acting regional general manager of North West Thames RHA since David Kenny was taken ill last July, has been appointed to the post on a permanent basis.
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Room at the top puts NHS plan in mortal danger
Plethora of key management vacancies is creating leadership vacuum