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Take the money and run?
Are managers being paid over the odds when their contracts are terminated? And why do NHS employers refuse to reveal severance payments in defiance of official guidance? Seamus Ward reports
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Upper limits
The dominant theme of the new guidance on services for upper gastro-intestinal (UGI) cancers (see box 1) is the need for greater specialisation. A wide-ranging review of research evidence, summarised in the latest Effective Health Care bulletin, reveals the magnitude of the gulf between outcomes that prevail in England and ...
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Users 'lack rights in white paper'
Concessions in the government's mental health white paper do not go far enough to balance the rights of the individual against powers for compulsory treatment, charities have warned.
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New year honours give nod to key modernisers
Key players in the drive to modernise the NHS have been rewarded in the new year's honours list, with CBEs going to several senior managers for their work in driving forward reforms.
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FAGS 'R ' US
As part of a multi-pronged drive against smoking, one health authority is forging partnerships with a wide range of outlets that sell tobacco.John Middleton and Chris Saxon report
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Where a pioneer leads by example
HSJ monographs Primary care mental health By Dr Alan Cohen To order call 01483-303017 18 pages £12.99
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Equitable strife
A new HIV funding formula has failed to bring clarity and fairness to the funding of the treatment and care of people with HIV/AIDS, according to Peter Cosgrove and colleagues
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Import duties
One trust has solved a long-standing nursing shortage by recruiting overseas. And thanks to a programme of support, the new recruits are staying, as Yvonne Sawbridge reports
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Steering in the right direction
All the overseas nurses needed a settling-in time, whether they formally required an adaptation period or not. When nurses were recruited from Malaysia, Finland and South Africa they arrived as registered nurses within this country, but still needed support.
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Days like this
The Department of Health has been criticised for spending £10,000 on a slap-up dinner for the chairs and managers of successful trust applications.It feted more than 100 guests at a £50-a-head black-tie dinner at the Banqueting House in Whitehall. Bath district general manager Andrew Wall described the event, attended by ...
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A song and dance from Deacon as the McPlan leaves England reeling
And a happy new year to you, too. Now that We are all agreed that the new millennium has commenced, let's start on a suitably apocalyptic note. Let's look at Scotland's newly published version of the NHS plan, a 96-page glossy entitled The NHS Plan for Scotland.
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Out for the count
A new way of coding health statistics will reveal a change in mortality rates in England. Alison Moore reports
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Clinical developments
The Clinical Standards Board for Scotland is charged with overseeing the implementation of clinical governance. Like the Commission for Health Improvement in England and Wales, it will publish reports on the performance of trusts. The Health Technology Board - the equivalent of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence - will ...
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'Dirty' hospitals could face clean-up teams
A team of facilities managers could be sent into 'dirty' hospitals within the next few weeks after 35 per cent of hospitals failed inspections for cleanliness.