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HMOs: what, how and why
The incentive for a managed care organisation is to maintain the health of its enrolled population and to minimise expenditure on health treatment services.
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Key points
The government has proposed a statutory scheme to regulate prices and profits on the sale of drugs to the NHS.
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Key points
Primary care trusts are similar to US health maintenance organisations in that they act as both commissioners and providers of services.
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It is always sad to report on the plight of oppressed workers, but Monitor has seldom heard of greater hardship than that suffered by the downtrodden masses at the Royal College of Nursing. Forced out of upmarket Cavendish Square to rented accommodation in grimy Euston while the gentleman's club which ...
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Monitor is delighted to hear of a planned VIP visit to London by Sir Bernard Tomlinson. Apparently the man who reviewed the capital's health service back in 1992 was 'delighted' when the idea was put to him, and former London Implementation Group boss Bob Nicholls is currently canvassing for volunteers ...
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University Hospital of Wales and Llandough Hospital trust has made four key appointments: Susan Hobbs has become chief nurse, Paul Davies is the new finance director, Judith Hardisty is human resources director and Bob Burrows has become corporate administration director. All previously held senior posts with one of the trust's ...
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Croydon stakes its claim to fame - but does Kingston know the first thing about it?
Health improvement programmes
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Hinchliffe must accept people will vote with their feet
Your article 'I hate the bastards' (news focus, 8 April) arouses remarkably strong feeling among my colleagues and myself in response to health select committee chair David Hinchliffe's comments about the independent sector.
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From blood to the Net: genetic testing comes of age
Genetic testing in some form goes back to 1960 when the first chromosomal tests were carried out on the blood of people with Down's syndrome. Natal chromosome analysis was possible, but it was another 10 years before the first DNA tests were carried out to diagnose a range of blood ...
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Charging ahead: the Welsh experience
The clinical genetics service in Wales is based at the Institute of Medical Genetics at the University of Wales Healthcare trust in Cardiff.
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Taking aim: the PHGU
To keep abreast of developments in molecular and clinical genetics, and their ethical, legal, social and public health implications.
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Somerset gained widespread support from public and partners for integrated approach
Somerset HA and Somerset social services last year incorporated the community care plan into the first health improvement programme, and did this both in the initial draft published for consultation last September and in the recently produced final HImP.
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'Astonished' MP pushes for cancer register
The government would regularly review NHS cancer care, and publish performance statistics for cancer centres - including survival rates - under a bill proposed by Labour backbencher Paul Marsden.
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Audit is 'not an excuse' for lack of improvement
Public sector managers should not use their auditors as a convenient excuse for failing to improve services, leading audit organisations have warned.