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Hospital beds
The UK has been losing more beds than almost every other OECD country since 1979. John Appleby says that throughput could now compromise quality of care
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Barred from help
The Michael Stone case underlined the link between mental illness and crime, but what can be done to help ex-offenders with psychiatric problems? Lynn Eaton reports
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Hopes hang on Hutton Mental health policy analysts ministerial changes with anxiety
As any senior civil servant will tell you, a change of minister can have a more drastic effect on a department than a change of government. So mental health policy analysts are holding their breath with the arrival of John Hutton to succeed Paul Boateng as junior health minister. Labour's ...
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Why no amount of fixing can prevent the conspiracy theory
Your cover feature on the role of the health service commissioner ('The fixer', 8 October) misses the point in relation to people's continued dissatisfaction with the NHS complaints procedures.
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Ahead of the field
Are the health needs of people who live in the countryside on the government's agenda at last? Janet Snell reports on a recent forum
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Action points for employers
Establish which employees the regulations apply to, especially those who do not provide a 'continuous service' or are not directly involved in patient care.
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MPs act on 'missing link' between managersds; MPs act after evidence of 'poor communication' across the NHS
MPs are to tackle 'poor communication' between managers and frontline clinical staff in a wide-ranging inquiry into the NHS workforce.
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The times they are a-changin'
The working time directive will cost the NHS millions and impose heavy new responsibilities on employers. John Northrop and Keith Hearn explain
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Dr JAF Napier of the Welsh Blood Service, who confuses income and salary (Letters, 24 September)
Dr JAF Napier of the Welsh Blood Service, who confuses income and salary (Letters, 24 September), urges that I be burnt at the stake for suggesting half of all consultants earn more than the average of £100,000. It is, of course, possible that the private practice gravy-train slows significantly after ...
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Chancellor finds extra £250m to cope with winter pressures
Chancellor Gordon Brown found an extra £250m 'winter cash' for the NHS in his pre-budget statement on Tuesday.
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I read with interest Steve Ainsworth's article 'Phoney wars' (15 October).
I read with interest Steve Ainsworth's article 'Phoney wars' (15 October). Although the original intention of the writers of the appropriate part of the Statement of Fees and Allowances (SFA or 'Red Book') was that 'telephone advice' would not attract a fee, it is unimportant as the wording did not ...
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The Government's policy of charging for some social care services might be reviewed if it could be proved that charging was 'cost ineffective,' a senior Department of Health official has suggested.
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Toolkit
A toolkit to help managers and clinicians work more effectively together to meet clinical governance requirements has been launched at a conference by the Institute of Health Services Management. It will be published in December after feedback from the launch and will cost 25 to non-members and 20 to members.
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Shift workers
The debate about power, responsibility and accountability between chief executives and consultants has been raging ever since the changes in the structure and organisation of the NHS first carried out in response to the Girths reforms in the late 1980s. The new doctrine of clinical governance will effect a fundamental ...
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Redundancy
In 22 years' work in human resources, Ian Chalmers has been made redundant four times. Three of those occasions came when he was working for private sector companies. He has also seen his employment in the NHS threatened twice by organisational change.
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Opportunities knock
If the NHS really is an equal opportunities employer, surely it is unnecessary to say so in job advertisements, argues Steve Ainsworth