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Fritchie 'must spell out' councillors' role
A highly critical report on political appointments must spell out the roles and responsibilities of councillors who sit on trust, health authority and primary care group boards, NHS leaders have demanded.
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The cream of the crop?
Health minister John Hutton meets James Barton (left), founder of Liverpool night club Cream, and Eddie Lundon of 1980s band China Crisis (right) at the launch of a Merseyside anti-suicide helpline.
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Public health experts fear hidden R&D cuts
Experts in public health have expressed fears that the health secretary's vow to 'take public health out of the ghetto' is a 'cover' for short-term cuts in research and education.
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Short Cuts: Patient self-management investigation demanded
The Mental Health Foundation has produced a report calling for a three-year investigation of how people with mental health problems manage their own health.Strategies for Living calls on the government to set up an expert patients taskforce to establish a nation-wide programme of self-management. Director Ruth Leserge said the report ...
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Short Cuts: UKCC welcomes DoH poor performance proposals
The UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting has welcomed the Department of Health's proposals on poor clinical performance. But the response to Supporting Doctors, Protecting Patients questions how proposed assessment and support centres would work in practice, and particularly how they would link with current regulatory processes. ...
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Days like this
Party bias 'rife' in appointments. . . Eric Caines is personnel director. . . Scottish Office sends in team of six. . . Priority services 'underfunded'. . .
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Drug habits in the dock
A recent Appeal Court case has essentially destroyed the Department of Health's self-awarded monopoly on medical data. Peter Mitchell explains
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NHS enters first stage of payroll restructuring
The NHS has begun procurement of a new national system to replace the current variety of payroll systems used in the NHS at the moment.
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IT is good at the simple things - but grand strategies fail
COMMENT Electronic health records are too complicated to emulate the success of NHS Direct, believes Peter Mitchell
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Go with the flow
GPs have forced on the centre what hospitals and health authorities could not: a climbdown on NHSnet. Peter Mitchell reports
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In the frame
PCGs will need to get to grips with mental health service provision at practice level if they are to implement the new national service framework. Anne Rogers and colleagues report on a survey
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Funding for records put on ice
The NHS Information Authority has shelved its plan to award up to £6m of funding for the NHS's first full electronic health record demonstrator sites.
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Labour insists it will meet its waiting-list pledge
The government insists it is 'well on target' to meet its election manifesto pledge to cut waiting lists by 100,000 at the end of this Parliament - despite figures showing an increase of more than 10,000 waiting at the end of January.
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Lighting up
Al Pacino stars as investigative reporter Lowell Bergman in the Oscar-nominated film The Insider, the true story of a US tobacco industry whistleblower. It had a special screening in Birmingham last Friday attended by more than 250 doctors, nurses and other health staff.
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Outwardly mobile
Mobile phones and hospitals don't mix, yet many trust staff are essentially mobile. The Royal Marsden trust found an ideal halfway house in digital cordless technology, explains Gary Burkill
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Monitor
Monitor was flabbergasted when the bastion of journalism that is the Sunday People revealed that the NHS was putting 'free condoms into birdboxes for sick gay orgies'. In a children's beauty spot, no less. Time for a bit of digging, so to speak. The Sunday People explains that one birdbox ...