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May the force be with you
Mental health service users may find themselves facing a harsh new treatment regime under green paper proposals now out for consultation. Laura Donnelly reports
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Fourth inquiry into radiology scandal
A fourth inquiry has been launched into allegations of mismanagement at a leading radiology department, according to 'whistleblowers' who raised concerns about the department at Hammersmith Hospitals trust.
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Points make prizes
A system of priority scoring would be a more equitable way to determine how urgently patients need treatment. Peter Adams reports on a pilot project
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Making a point
Dave Prentis, deputy general secretary of Unison, examines a 'safe syringe' with Pauline Anderson, a staff nurse at St Mark's Hospital, London, at the launch of a Unison campaign against needlestick injuries.
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Measured response
A new method of measuring efficiency shows the reforms of the early 1990s had a minimal effect on individual hospitals' productivity. Bruce Hollingsworth and colleagues explain
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Monitor
Monitor has been sounding out Dr Mike Dixon about his antecedents. With that bow-tie and slightly nutty professor look, he does have something of the boffin about him, and it wouldn't have surprised Monitor to discover that the PCG Alliance boss was descended from the inventor of the steam-driven tieknotting ...
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One step at a time
A year after the Acheson report on health inequalities - which won enthusiastic backing from the government - is the UK any nearer meeting its objectives? Wendy Moore reports
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Peak practice
The best in collaborative working and effective care were on display in entries for this year's Health Management Awards. Here, the judges explain how they chose the winners
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Prescription warning
Health authority chief executives have been told to work with clinical colleagues to prevent an increase in prescribing over the millennium holiday.
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Do the rights thing
Health minister John Hutton meets children from Liverpool's Gilmour county primary school and London's Torriano junior school at a reception to mark the 10th anniversary of the UN convention on the rights of the child last week. The children gave presentations at the London event, at which Mr Hutton read ...
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Split over future funding as £200m deficit looms
Managers' and doctors' leaders have split over the need for a fundamental re-think of NHS funding in the face of a £200m-plus deficit.
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£20m blow forces recovery plan on HA and six PCGs
A London health authority, six primary care groups and two hospitals have been forced to draw up a recovery plan to cope with deficits and a loss of funding totalling £20m.