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Short Cuts: Audit office support for properly managed risks
The National Audit Office has supported moves to persuade government departments to take more risks - as long as they are properly managed. It says 'a constructive approach to risk taking can provide services in new ways', but managing risk is important to ensure better service delivery, minimise waste and ...
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Assistance for the assistants
NVQs in Nursing and Residential Care Homes (Second edition) By Linda Nazarko Blackwell Science 288 pages £13.99
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Asian GPs'procedures under the microscope
The Commission for Racial Equality has been asked to investigate why Asian GPs appear to be involved in most of the performance procedures carried out in Greater Manchester.
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Drop in applications blamed on rule change
The leader of the UK's deans of medical schools has said a change in the rules on how many places students can apply to is behind an apparent drop in applications.
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Short Cuts: New chief executive for Environment Agency
Baroness Young of Old Scone, a former NHS chief executive and prominent member of the Institute of Health Services Management , has been appointed chief executive of the Environment Agency. Baroness Young was chief executive of Parkside health authority from 1991 to 1998, and was the first woman president of ...
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After 'Enery, whatever next?
We may love him, but should an ex-pugilist spearhead a health campaign?
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In Brief: 'action for equity in Europe' statement
Stephen Hawkins, acting chair of Liverpool health authority, and Mike Storey, leader of Liverpool city council, have signed the World Health Organisation's 'action for equity in Europe' statement, which commits them to addressing inequalities in health. Mr Hawkins said this showed the HA's 'commitment to delivering real action'.
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Current accounts
Little has been done to redress the imbalance in research funding which favours large teaching hospitals at the expense of smaller units, say Anne Lacey and Margaret Fall
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GMC flexes muscles in bid to curb abuses
The General Medical Council has used newly acquired powers to suspend or restrict three doctors while investigations take place into suspected poor performance.
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'No shows' bill may top £185m
Patients' failures to keep GP appointments could be costing the NHS up to £185m a year, according to a survey by Doctor Pat ient Partnership and the Institute of Healthcare Management.
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No trouble
Brookside actresses Alexandra Fletcher (left) and Karen Drury join Mersey Regional Ambulance trust technician Kate Hodgers at the launch of a 'zero tolerance zone' campaign highlighting violence against ambulance staff.
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Something off the trolley?
If ever you wanted to analyse the effects of spin, the NHS plan is your opportunity. I read it the day it was announced, printed it off the web, and was overwhelmed by its contents, about 150 pages of ideas.
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A punishing schedule
The education service has suffered a regime of inspection and scrutiny; now it's the turn of the health service. Tash Shifrin reports
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Smokers pledged to quit in their thousands
Figures issued last week show that almost 15,000 people set 'quit dates' to give up smoking through new programmes developed by health action zones in England last year. But just 39 per cent of the 14,600 people who set dates had actually given up when they were followed up four ...