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Commission impossible
Yet another significant NHS date is looming. On 1 April the first primary care trusts will go live, many combining the responsibility of commissioning around 80 per cent of the local NHS budget with delivering a range of community services.
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MSPs condemn NHS for 'secrecy culture'
Members of the Scottish Parliament's health committee used a parliamentary debate to attack NHS organisations for operating a 'culture of secrecy and fear'.
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Cut and dry
The Alder Hey organ scandal, which led to the resignation of Frank Taylor last week, has resulted in new guidance on the issue. Barbara Millar reports
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Days like this
Managers told to 'soft pedal' on internal market. . . Disciplinary code for doctors. . . Long-stay patient transfer deemed a success. . .
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LHGs will be given time to develop, says Hutt
Local health groups in Wales will be allowed to develop at a 'comfortable' pace, Welsh health secretary Jane Hutt told a conference marking their first year of operation.
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Mind over a difficult matter
Practising evidence-based mental health By John Geddes, Andre Tomlin and Jonathan Price Edited by Sharon E Straus Radcliffe Medical Press 264 pages £30
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Winter of discontent thawed by promise of massive funds
Chancellor Gordon Brown's Budget was the government's first chance to respond with hard cash to three months of bad headlines about the NHS - and growing pressure to fund healthcare through private insurance.
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RCP reveals plans to gauge heart disease progress
The Royal College of Physicians this week unveiled plans to measure the progress of NHS services against the national service framework for coronary heart disease. The pilot scheme - funded by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence - will be rolled out to cover all acute hospitals offering cardiac services ...
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Glasgow 'superplan' hits flak
Greater Glasgow health board has proposed a £400m capital programme, funded through private finance, leading to the development of a 'superhospital' at the city's Southern General Hospital.
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Joyless triumph
A trust's 'achievement' in bringing the first major PFI project to completion has been tempered by claims that the way it has been funded is a 'disaster'. Patrick Butler reports
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Monitor
Direct access rectal bleed clinics! Could anything be nicer? Stockport Acute Services trust doesn't seem to think so, announcing plans to carry out fast-track buttock checks. The logistics of such schemes make interesting reckoning, says Monitor, but in the interests of taste and decency perhaps the matter is best kept ...
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On the slide?
Whatever their feelings on the government's approach to cancer services, the experts agree more cash and manpower are needed - fast. Thelma Agnew reports
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Vacuum task
Are the candidates for London mayor ignoring health as an issue? As the election - and HSJ's own mayoral debate - approaches, Mark Gould finds out