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Audit Forum aims to clarify public sector relations
The Public Audit Forum has published a paper aimed at clarifying the relationship between public sector auditors and their audited bodies. The forum, which involves the National Audit Office, the Audit Commission, the Accounts Commission for Scotland, and the Northern Ireland Audit Office, has urged public sector auditors to ensure ...
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Mental health PFI plan agreed at last
Plans to replace 'abysmal' buildings housing mental health services in Leeds have finally got the go-ahead almost a decade after the closure of the sites was first proposed. The £47m deal is the largest ever private finance initiative for mental health services.
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Selection of surgeons for inquiries probed after kidney row
The Royal College of Surgeons is to review its procedures for appointing surgeons to independent inquiries, following the revelation that the lead consultant who investigated the removal of a healthy kidney from a patient in Llanelli was himself the subject of legal action over a similar case, and had selected ...
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Trusts braced for impact of act
How will the Human Rights Act impact on the NHS when it comes into force next October?
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WEB WATCH
Five years have passed since the then Conservative government asked the Clinical Standards Advisory Group to review services for children with cleft lip and palate, and two years have gone by since it reported back. But progress to date on putting its sweeping proposals for consolidation and reform into practice ...
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Scapegoats in the wilderness
Sir Alan Langlands is not alone in leaving his job sooner than expected. But at least he left amicably - unlike other victims of the NHS's habit of ridding itself of chief executives in mid-contract. It's such a waste, says Andrew Wall
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Suicide reduction targets 'unrealistic'
Government targets to reduce suicide rates are unrealistic and cannot be achieved among mentally ill people, both planners and users of mental health services agreed last week.
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Power with responsibility
Harold Shipman has now spent the first four weeks of the rest of his life in prison. The NHS, meanwhile, will have to grapple for some time to come with the issues his case has raised.
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Sounds of shackles loosening
Blair's statement is just one sign that managers may win more freedom
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Knock knock
Presenting mental health in a good light is an uphill struggle to combat negative press coverage. Laura Donnelly reports
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Super groupers
Inclusivity and partnership will be major features of PCG clinical governance plans, due next month. Jenny Cook looks at how one practice tackled the issues
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Grey matters for the Milburnians
The first thing I did when I heard that Alan Milburn was making sweeping changes in the Department of Health's top management structure after Sir Alan Langlands' sudden departure was to ring a well-placed senior official close to the top of the Whitehall tree.
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Troubled GP intranet project to lose top man and deputy
The project struggling to link GP and NHS computer networks is to lose both its head and deputy this month.
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Point of departure
Is Alan Milburn going to seize the opportunity presented by Sir Alan Langlands' resignation to bring frontline managers to the very top of the NHS? The policy rumours have been flying thick and fast this week, reports Lyn Whitfield