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A system for calculating the cost of clinical audits in terms of money and staff time has been in operation at Brighton Health Care trust since 1995.
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Tees and North East Yorkshire trust has seven board-level appointments. Moira Britton, who headed the former South Tees Community and Mental Health trust, is chief executive of the new trust. She is joined by chair Eileen Grace, a Labour councillor and deputy leader of Middlesbrough council. Dr Kathryn Gillen, Eleanor ...
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Rock-a-bye
Jenny Hope (left), midwifery manager at Arrowe Park Hospital, Wirral, helps Nichola Brown with her newborn son, David, and an elevating cot designed to help disabled parents care for their children. Ms Hope designed the cot in consultation with occupational therapists Mandy Whalley and Gaynor Reid after a disability audit ...
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PCGs and trusts invited to bid for £30m walk-in centre funding
Primary care groups and trusts were invited this week to bid for a share of the £30m pot to set up walk-in health centres - and given just five weeks to set out their plans.
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Child abuse drink link?
Reducing the incidence of child abuse must be a top priority as the NSPCC insists (news, page 6, 25 March). But it will not be reduced significantly until our understanding of the role of parental alcohol and drug abuse in the suffering of children is improved. Real support must be ...
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Midwife found guilty of serious misconduct after death of baby
An independent midwife and former president of the Royal College of Midwives has been cautioned by the UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting after being found guilty of three charges of serious professional misconduct.
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So that's agreed, then?
The Treasury has plans to extend public service agreements to health authorities and trusts, and the targets it sets may get tougher. Mark Crail reports
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A rough ride ahead for PCGs being pushed through the precarious NHS
I concur with the sentiments and analysis of primary care groups made by Dr Michael Dixon of the NHS PCG Alliance (letters, 6 May).
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Devolution heralds integrated approach
Ministerial appointments in Scotland and Wales this week underlined the determination of devolved Labour administrations to break down barriers between health and social services.
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Ensuring the disadvantaged aren't bottom of the heap
It is a pity that Donald Coid and Desmond Ryan ('Historical novel', page 28-29, 15 April) presented their important comment on the challenge of de-industrialisation in such a gratuitously negative way, and arguably several years behind events.
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The truly great pretenders Trouble in Borsetshire brings out managers' best in first HSJ challenge
Health services in the fictional county of Borsetshire are every manager's nightmare. An escalating health authority deficit, a recently merged acute trust with deep-rooted tensions, a prying MP, ever-more demanding patients, a naughty non-executive, a wayward single-handed GP and serious worries about year 2000 compliance. All this and an implacable ...
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BMA slams police privatisation plan
Plans by a second police force to privatise police surgeon services have come under fire from the British Medical Association after claims that standards have slipped since the first contract was let.