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Performance indicators
On the eve of new performance indicator frameworks, John Appleby says much useful information remains to be extracted from existing statistics
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Private health industry is 'in turmoil'
Private healthcare is 'an industry in turmoil' and the government's 'lack of interest' means the NHS 'is not maximising its opportunity', according to industry analysts.
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No happy returns
Health minister Alan Milburn wants to encourage trained nursing staff who no longer work in the NHS to return. But is the number of would-be returners really as many as he would like to believe? Mark Crail reports
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New guidance issued to spur joint working
The determination of ministers to force closer co-operation between health and social services is underlined in the first ever joint national priorities guidance, issued last week.
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Northern Ireland health and social services to target greatest needs
Northern Ireland health and social services managers have been told that resources must be targeted towards greatest needs to tackle inequalities in health and social care.
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Give and take
Chief executives confessed they were still struggling to get to grips with joint working.
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Watson elected as RCN president
Christine Watson has been elected president of the Royal College of Nursing and will take over from Dame Betty Kershaw after its annual general meeting on 21 October. Ms Watson had a 30-year career in the NHS and has been deputy president of the RCN for the past four years.
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Downgrading at Queen Mary's fails to produce planned savings
The controversial downgrading of a leading London acute hospital has failed to provide the multi-million pound savings expected, health authority managers have admitted.
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Organ donor numbers hit 'plateau'
Fears that organ donation has reached a 'plateau' have emerged as the number of donors in Britain and Ireland rose by just five last year, while the number of people waiting for transplants increased by almost 200.
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Public health's new top doc
Chief medical officer Liam Donaldson combines clinical and management experience. He has been a 'team player' under both Labour and Conservative governments. Wendy Moore meets a pragmatist with both passionate admirers and critics
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Dobson's partial progress
Dear Frank, a year ago Trevor Sheldon and I offered you a radical, wheeze-free agenda to improve the NHS.
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Spinal injection damage 'was not negligence'
Sometimes medical treatment goes seriously wrong for reasons nobody can explain. Patients in these cases are apt to reach for their lawyers, and legal advisers to seize on the legal maxim res ipsa loquitur - 'the thing speaks for itself '. In effect, they argue, no healthy person who goes ...
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Penetrating the corridors of power
NHS chief executives should play dirty and learn political advocacy so that they could manage upwards as well as downwards, said Labour peer Baroness Young, chair of English Nature and former IHSM president.
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Neglect 'contributed' to pensioner's hospital death
A coroner has condemned a London hospital's alleged failure to examine an emergency patient for two-and-a-half hours and described claims that a nursing sister tried to cover up the blunder as 'inexcusable and reprehensible'. St Pancras coroner Stephen Chan heard last week that 89-year-old Albert Range was admitted to the ...
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It's cold outside
The second annual forum of trust and health authority chief executives found them voicing bitter complaints about New Labour's command and control style. Peter Davies and Pat Healy were there