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Schism at the IHSM
Karen Caines says her successor as IHSM director should be someone who 'doesn't mind being slagged off '. But what measures should be used to assess their performance if membership and money are ruled out? Mark Crail reports
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Scottish high-security shake-up
Health and social care services for mentally disordered offenders in Scotland are to be overhauled.
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Heretic
A butterfly's wings flapping in a Brazilian jungle, eventually contributing to a hurricane in Britain, illustrates chaos theory. Perhaps the theory also explains why the unanticipated arrival of winter and attendant bed pressures generates a media clamour for nurse education to be removed from where thinking is encouraged. Ironically, the ...
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Jobs warning as shadow PCGs make firstmove to trust status
Managers and GPs have warned that further 'wholesale reorganisation' and job losses could follow if dozens of primary care groups decide to move towards trust status in 1999.
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Feeling the squeeze
Happy with their lot or keen to move on? Janet Snell asked middle managers how they see their role and prospects
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Dobson plans new grading for nurses
Health secretary Frank Dobson has proposed a new grading structure for nurses in a bid to make the nursing profession more attractive.
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Little 'Red' Riding Hoodwolfs down NHS disquiet
So now we know. That 'fair and affordable' nurses' pay rise is not the straight 11 per cent all round as cheerfully predicted in The Sun. But nor is it all going to be financed from a raid on Frank Dobson's NHS modernisation fund. It is a lot more complicated ...
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Privatisation dispute ends
An eight-year dispute over privatisation at a Northern Ireland trust has ended with 500 ancillary workers being taken back 'in-house.'
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Staff shortage survey to resolve 'stupid' debates
Health secretary Frank Dobson will ask the NHS to conduct an official, open survey of staff shortages by the end of the financial year to resolve 'stupid disputes' between management and staff over figures.
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On pain of death
Victims of General Pinochet's regime are among those the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture seeks to help. As the former Chilean dictator waits to hear whether he will be extradited, Wendy Moore reports on its work
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Lazy days of summer
It is commonly accepted that winter emergency admissions are a major cause of longer waiting lists. But, argues Neil Pettinger, the truth may have more to do with a slowdown in warmer months
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Days like this
The launch of Working for Patients . . . Cook sceptical. . . HA chairs 'delighted'. . . 'right-wing nonsense'. . .King's Fund warning
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Courtin' the middle
The most uncomfortable job in the managerial hierarchy has to be the middle manager: dumped on by top managers and beset with seemingly impossible objectives on the one hand, and reviled as mere clipboard carriers by those they supervise on the other. An impossible job, and yet no organisation can ...
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Prescription for conflict
West Hertfordshire health authority chief executive Carolyn Regan has good reason to hope that the National Institute for Clinical Excellence will help managers fend off accusations of rationing.
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Hancock calls for clarity on long-term nursing care
Royal College of Nursing general secretary Christine Hancock has urged health secretary Frank Dobson to clarify the government's position on funding long-term nursing care.
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Karen Caines: punishing schedule
Karen Caines had everything you might look for in an IHSM director: a razor-sharp intellect, inside knowledge of the workings of government at its highest levels from her time as a Department of Health civil servant and experience as a senior NHS manager.