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GP deputising 'failures' added to holiday crisis
Two studies have been launched into claims that failures in GP deputising services added to pressure on accident and emergency services at Christmas.
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'Largest' network links acute sites
North Essex health authority has ordered the largest 'community of interest network' yet to be built in England.
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BMA accuses police on surgeon contract
West Midlands Police has come under fire for privatising its police surgeon service.
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OFT probes 'abuses' by private health firms
The Office of Fair Trading is investigating a series of allegations about uncompetitive behaviour in private medicine.
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Dr Peter Kennedy: 'It used to take seven years to do something about colleagues with nicknames like 'Terminator' and '007'''
Concept: 'The term is new, but the concept is not - it is about the collective responsibility of chief executives and clinicians. The new emphasis is on increasing the development of information on clinical outcomes and performance and handling that information in an open manner with the public.'
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Supra? Sounds super
How interesting that Birmingham is the first to discover the benefits of what used to be called family practitioner committees.
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Shark repellent
NHS credit unions can offer staff cheap loans and a way to bypass undesirable lenders, but their numbers are still low, writes Barbara Millar
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Rational thinking
Elderly people have always been marginalised in NHS planning. But it's time to question what rationing and prioritising mean for older people, says Dorothy White
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Over the threshold
Significant variations between hospitals in the severity of illness of patients admitted suggest it is time to draw up an ideal admissions system, say David Lawrence and colleagues
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Protests at low pay offer for managers
Senior managers are to be offered significantly lower pay rises than nurses, NHS chief executive Sir Alan Langlands has told trusts and health authorities.
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On the line
The government wants radical reform of consultants' contracts. Wendy Moore considers the likely outcomes
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Lighting up time
How will NICE work? And whatever happened to 'beacon' hospitals? Baroness Hayman has the answers. Mark Crail reports
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Turnberg inspires team share
'Political' considerations have driven two trusts to create a single executive team reporting to two sets of non-executive directors.
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The people who time forgot
Being invited to write for a magazine as well-read by well-informed people as HSJ isn't just an honour, it's downright scary. What can I say to engage your attention when virtually every aspect of the health service has been hogging the headlines in yet another crisis of nursing, funding and ...
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Falklands hospital seeks NHS staff to replace military team
A Falkland Islands hospital is looking for an NHS partner because of defence cuts.
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Northern exposure
Civil servant or health service manager? Northern and Yorkshire's new regional director, Peter Garland, talks to Seamus Ward about his role in an increasingly centralised NHS