All News articles – Page 1960
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At face value
The team guide to communication By John Middleton Radcliffe Medical Press Ltd 213 pages £19.95
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Figure skating without ice
Reference cost data that should reveal all never discloses full story
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Finders, keepers
Can the UK's largest employer solve acute staffing shortages in all sectors? Jeremy Davies reports
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Take the shock out of the future
Business planning for healthcare management Second edition By Carolyn Semple Piggott Open University Press 164 pages £18.99
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Giant gorilla in their midst
For a primeval swamp, New England isn't a bad place to be in mid-October: the trees are trumpeting their extraordinary colours against a bright blue sky.
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Proposals unveiled for Scottish independent sector
Plans for improving the regulation of Scotland's independent healthcare sector have been unveiled by Scottish health minister Susan Deacon. The proposals have been developed following responses to the Scottish Executive's consultation paper, Regulating Private and Voluntary Healthcare, which was published earlier this year. They include the regulation of private hospitals, ...
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Type-righting lessons
The huge rise in the type-2 diabetes population - and the introduction of major new drug treatments - is set to pose some increasingly tough management decisions, writes Jenny Bryan
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The long and winding road
Race, culture & ethnicity in secure psychiatric practice Working with difference Edited by Charles Kaye and Tony Lingiah Jessica Kingsley 284 pages £18.95 paperback
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monitor
Parallels between Princess Di (as was) and finance directors are rare. Colin Reeves would never have called himself 'the people's finance director' - it wasn't in his nature. Yet news that the NHS' top bean-counter is to pack away his scientific calculator for the last time has shaken the foundations ...
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A problem shared
It's pooled budgets with a difference in one part of east London, as the NHS helps social services withstand swingeing cuts in service provision. Tash Shifrin reports
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Right on target
An enterprising scheme to help mothers in one of the most deprived areas of the country is being staffed by members of their own communities. Barbara Millar reports
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Patients to face £100 fine for false exemption claims
Patients found to have falsely claimed exemption from NHS charges will be subject to penalty charges of up to £100 from 1 December, junior health minister Lord Hunt has announced. If patients cannot provide evidence they are entitled to help with charges they will still receive treatment, but claims will ...
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Trust battles £2.7m overspend
King's College Healthcare trust is facing a £2.7m overspend half way through the financial year.
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New post included in £6m strategy to bolster PAMs
A £6m strategy to improve the status, training, pay and career opportunities for the professions allied to medicine has been announced by junior health minister Lord Hunt.A new post of therapist consultant is to be created and the first wave of at least 400 will be in place by 2004.The ...
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Trust under fire for £3m agency bill
Trade unions are seeking urgent talks with a Scottish trust after it signed a multi-million pound contract with a private company to supply nurses and healthcare assistants - despite the fact that ministers have urged trusts only to use agencies as a last resort.