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Hold your privates
The government is determined to ensure consultants pull their weight in their NHS work - but how tough will the crackdown really be, asks Kaye McIntosh
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Hitching a ride
Primary care and social services Developing new partnerships for older people By Kirstein Rummery and Caroline Glendinning Radcliffe Medical Press 114 pages £15.95
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Hit and miss as ministers send in the heavy mob
Encouraging a media feeding frenzy is not the way to tackle waiting lists
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Friends and relations
Personal medical services pilot schemes have been slow to develop links with key organisations. Nicola Walsh and colleagues report
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A kick in the goolies for Willie, the NHS's friend
A couple of days before the launch of the NHS plan, I was taken aside by a senior Tory MP at a leaving party for Robin Oakley, victim of a management shake-up at the NHS's perennial alter ego in the state sector, the equally loved and hated BBC.
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Events
Health and social services 11 September, London The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy is running a course on 'The interface between health and social services: achieving financial harmony'.The event covers the future agenda for further change, joint financing, audit arrangements, community care issues and case studies.
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'Entrenched prejudice': exploding the myths
The East London and the City HA report is determined to 'explode some of the important myths about TB'.
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Overseas nursing drive 'must be ethical'
Junior health minister Lord Hunt has pledged that overseas recruitment to find 20,000 extra nurses for the NHS in four years will 'have to be done on an ethical basis in countries with a surplus of staff '.
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Performance demands exceeded
Mersey Regional Ambulance Serv ice trust is boasting success as the first urban ambulance trust to beat new government performance targets on emergency response times.
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News: Medical Defence Union
The Medical Defence Union paid out a record £77m to patients last year, up from £65m in 1998 and £48m in 1997.Chief executive Dr Michael Saunders said the estimated value of known claims against the doctors' insurer was £287m.He attributed the rise 'not to a fall in clinical standards' but ...
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Pathology modernisation spending decided
The government has announced £15m of spending on 23 projects from the pathology modernisation fund. The projects, which include money for modernisation, information technology, pathology reorganisation, training, and new screening services, were chosen by an independent steering group. Junior health minister Lord Hunt said they set the pattern for pathology ...
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Dear Mel. . .
During the recent hot weather we found the temperature in our wards went up dramatically. Unfortunately, we had insufficient fans to refresh our patients and they became rather over-heated. What should I do?
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Days like this
Managers' representatives have attacked NHS chief executive Duncan Nichol's demand for action on waiting lists. He wants no patients waiting more than two years for treatment by March 1992, and has said managers' performance-related pay would be judged on waiting times. But the Institute of Health Services Management said he ...
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'Hit squad' head cool on red-light move
The head of the national patient access team has moved to distance herself from the government's decision to 'name and shame' seven trusts over their waiting-list performance.
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GPs protest over plans for contracts shake-up
GP leaders have attacked the NHS plan for setting 'unrealistic' targets in its call for family doctors to move to new contracts and limiting increases in the workforce.
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Conspicuous consumption
TB is perceived as a poverty-related disease of the distant past, but it is making a comeback, especially in London, writes Laura Donnelly
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MPs want super-ombudsman to be gateway for complaints
MPs have called for a super-ombudsman service to replace the separate watchdogs for Parliament, local government and the health service.
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Closer to home
Although many hospital patients would be better off at home, intermediate care is regarded with scepticism in many quarters. A shift in attitudes is called for, according to Jacqueline Mallender and Andrew Richman