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A walk-in? Now you're talkin'
New Labour wants every major city to have an NHS walk-in centre, and a study suggests that they will be extremely popular. But are expectations too high? Alison Chapple and colleagues report
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Tea's maid
Steph Clarke, haemotology and blood bank nurse at Queen Alexandra Hospital, Cosham, takes a break in its cyber cafe.
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Play as you learn
Amanda Jackson (right), programme manager for the Greater Elland Sure Start initiative, chats to some of those making use of the scheme's new playbus. The double-decker has playgroup facilities upstairs, while downstairs it has displays on health, parenting, diet, literacy and numeracy. The Sure Start initiative in Elland was set ...
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Silos of the lambs
Fresh-faced managers of the future faced a barrage of similes, buzzwords and farming metaphors when they gathered at an NHS training conference on partnership. Tash Shifrin harvested the crop of wisdom on offer
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Waiting-list initiative
Even health ministers would say that targeting the length of waiting lists rather than admission waiting times has been a mistake. But it isn't that simple, argues John Appleby
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Screen but not heard
A report on Scotland's cervical screening programme has led to calls for the locally based call/recall service to be made national. Colin Wright reports
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GP-free PCG 'is doing as well as the others'
A primary care group set up a year ago without GP members is still operating with no family doctors on the board.
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Managers may forfeit pay rises
Scottish health minister Susan Deacon has threatened that NHS managers could forfeit their pay rises if they fail to put patients' interests first.
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Pacemaker unit flaws revealed
An internal report into the cardiac pacemaker outpatient unit at Bedford Hospital has identified failings that led to 11 patients needing replacement devices and one death being referred to a coroner.
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Maximum fine for trust over tragedy
A trust has been fined the maximum amount allowed by law in a case brought by the Health and Safety Executive after an elderly patient fell to his death.
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Double or quits
The NHS, argues Miles Allison, needs twice the number of consultants if the quality of care is not to deteriorate further
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Friends in deed
The arrival of a new chair at the National Association of Primary Care may herald the start of a more conciliatory relationship with its 'rival'. Or could a merger be on the cards? Matt Weaver reports
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Dear Mel. . .
Every time I see that Milburn chap on the telly I have a panic attack because my boss, the chief exec, will ask me about it the following day. The problem is that I never know what he's talking about.
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Days like this
Fundholding cash fears. . .Pitfalls of contracting. . .Trust application row. . .'Super-union' mooted. . .'Cleveland' doctor settles dispute