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It is hardly surprising that over the years Monitor has grown a pretty thick skin. It is essential protection when every waking hour brings accusations that this column is penned by a cynical has-been with no appreciation of the all-pervading shiny benefits that modernisation is bringing to our beauteous NHS.
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Whose turn now?
Contested decisions Priority setting in the NHS By Chris Ham and Shirley McIver King's Fund 85 pages £10.99
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THE PERSUADERS
Name: Sian Griffiths OBE Job: Director of public health, Oxfordshire health authority; president elect, Royal College of Physicians' faculty of public health medicine.
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Without prejudice
What do managers want from nurses and vice versa? Chief executive Alan Randall and nursing adviser Eileen Shepherd give some pointers
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Putting the records straight
'In the absence of an adequate system to record and monitor the numbers and circumstances of deaths, the detection of Shipman's high numbers of deaths was dependent on the chance of observations of individual practitioners or medical referees. . . they [medical referees] only have their own memories to help ...
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IT strategy speeds up roll-out
The government's push towards making the NHS more like a 'corporate' body has been strengthened by the revised IT strategy for the health service issued on Monday.
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1,300 consultants needed for labour ward services
The NHS needs an extra 1,300 consultant obstetricians and gynaecologists to provide adequate labour ward services, according to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. The figures are based on government measures to bring in consultant-based services. The RCOG says 200 extra consultants are needed to meet existing guidelines that ...
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DoH gives £700m push to IT roll-out
An additional £700m is to be allocated to NHS information technology over the next three years to support the implementation of the targets set out in the NHS plan.
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£200m for sterilisation facilities to help combat CJD
The government has announced that £200m will be spent on modernising sterilisation facilities in the NHS over the next two years, to minimise the risk of transmission of variant CJD. The money will be used to provide new sterilisers and washer disinfectors, with £100m in 2001-02 coming from the Department ...
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'Patient advocate'plans aimed at taking sting from CHCs' abolition
The government has conceded ground on the need for independent advocates to support patients' complaints against the NHS, following the decision to abolish community health councils.
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NHS Pensions Agency 'may be liable for loss'
The NHS Pensions Agency could be held liable for the loss of pension benefits of some of the 18,000 NHS employees who had money invested in troubled insurance company Equitable Life, according to a leading insurance lawyer.
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Mirror, mirror on the wall, is Lenin or Liam the most risk-averse of them all?
Talk of health department supremo Nigel Crisp being on TV! Last week there was so much public health news around that it was the chief medical officer, Professor Liam Donaldson, who was scarcely off the silver screen.
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In brief: Northern Ireland Ambulance Service
The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service has been given a national award for bravery, for acts of outstanding courage and heroism.The Ambulance Service Institute's bravery award medal has never been presented to an entire ambulance service before.