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Non-medical members of the team have much to offer
GPs have dominated discussion of the NHS reforms, with less attention paid to the views of non-medical members of the primary health team. In our shadow primary care group - which covers 87,000 patients and 15 practices - anecdotal evidence suggested that staff felt uninformed about PCGs and were anxious ...
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Matron does the rounds
Shadow health secretary Ann Widdecombe was in fine form at the Tories' spring forum and put PCGs on notice. Patrick Butler listened in
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Making sure we're on target in Scotland
Your news focus on the Scottish public health white paper (page 14, 25 February) contained an error. The targets for coronary heart disease, cancer and cerebrovascular disease apply to the population aged under 75.
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Merger sees number of trusts halved
The outcome of consultation on plans to merge trusts in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan has been announced.
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When funding is a Lottery
Bethlem and Maudsley trust chief executive Eric Byers attacked bidding systems used to distribute modernisation funds as 'modelled on the National Lottery'.
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Help us find where the missing nurses have gone
Many readers will have seen the coverage of our initiative to drop a 'back to nursing' leaflet through all 80,000-plus letter boxes locally (news focus, page 9, 11 February). It has been the most cost-effective method we have so far used to identify potential job applicants.
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Temperamental e-mail puts plan to link GPs with NHSnet on hold
Moves to put all GPs on to the NHS's national communications network are being delayed amid a flood of complaints about the unreliability of its electronic mail service.
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Days like this
GPs urged against feeling for wallets... white paper criticism dismissed... Quality in the market... Thatcher steps in... Labour attacks...
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Damning with faint praise
Nurses may have grudgingly voted to accept the pay award, but the government has its work cut out if the profession is to get 'on-message'. Pat Healy caught the mood at the RCN congress
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WEB WATCH MARK CRAIL
Down in the Everglades, the lawyers are not so much reptiles as hungry alligators - and they are snapping hard at the heels of any doctor who makes a mistake. If the medical establishment in this country is worried by the rising cost of negligence claims, it should look west, ...
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Hot under the collar over lukewarm response to royal commission
Nurses showed that they were furious with the government for its lukewarm response to the Royal Commission on Long-Term Care.
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'Deliver clinical governance - or leave'
Chief executives will be 'expected to leave the NHS' if they fail to deliver the government's clinical governance programme, health secretary Frank Dobson warned this week.