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'Patient flow' proposal for Wales
Acute general hospital services in Wales should in future be planned to match 'patient flows' rather than health authority and trust boundaries, according to the report of the acute services development group.
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Germ warfare
Public health professionals need to regain the public confidence lost in the BSE crisis. Claire Laurent reports
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Scottish patients may get to see surgery mortality rates
Patients in Scotland could be given greater access to mortality rates for surgery teams under proposals to be put forward by consultants.
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Give them a medal if they stick to poverty initiative
Preventing 10,000 premature deaths a year is surely an Olympian feat
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A long-day's journey into night
Personnel issues are dominated by the implications of the NHS plan. Delegates at AHHRM's annual conference thrashed out the crucial points. Ann McGauran reports from Dublin
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Minus sign
The NHS plan envisages autonomy for primary care trusts and multiagency providers. But is the data available adequate for monitoring whether these agencies are operating according to the plan's principles for providing a public service?
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in person
Will Evans has been appointed director of Harrow's Unified Mental Health Services, which will bring health and social services together to provide integrated care from next April. Since 1998, he has been director of nursing, quality and mental health for Harrow and Hillingdon Healthcare trust.
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£100m dental strategy 'won't halt'private practice exodus
The government launched a £100m, two-year NHS dental strategy this week - but it will not stem the tide of dentists leaving the NHS for private practice, say dentists' leaders.
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In brief: Beacons 2000
Sixty-eight NHS organisations have been named 'Beacons 2000' by health secretary Alan Milburn. They join the existing 287 beacon sites and receive £15,000 each. Rampton Hospital's personality disorder service was named as a beacon for the treatment of the disorder in a scheme jointly sponsored by the Home Office.
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Wales 'needs new priorities by 2002'
The NHS in Wales should move towards a 'transparent and consistent' system of prioritising patients based on clinical need, according to a report endorsed last week by the Welsh Assembly's health committee.
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Consultants' plans aim to remove sting from curbs on nonNHS work
Consultants have reiterated their opposition to government plans to restrict their freedom to work in the private sector by issuing their own proposals to reform the consultant contract.