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    Short supply of far-sighted policies

    1999-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    Events

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    Items are entered free for public sector, voluntary and professional organisations, but we need at least six weeks' notice of your event. Please send details to Uli Jaeger, HSJ , Greater London House, Hampstead Road, London, NW1 7EJ. Fax: 0171-874 0254.

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    Dobson plans new grading for nurses

    1999-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Health secretary Frank Dobson has proposed a new grading structure for nurses in a bid to make the nursing profession more attractive.

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    Little 'Red' Riding Hoodwolfs down NHS disquiet

    1999-02-04T00:00:00Z

    So now we know. That 'fair and affordable' nurses' pay rise is not the straight 11 per cent all round as cheerfully predicted in The Sun. But nor is it all going to be financed from a raid on Frank Dobson's NHS modernisation fund. It is a lot more complicated ...

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    Privatisation dispute ends

    1999-02-04T00:00:00Z

    An eight-year dispute over privatisation at a Northern Ireland trust has ended with 500 ancillary workers being taken back 'in-house.'

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    Staff shortage survey to resolve 'stupid' debates

    1999-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Health secretary Frank Dobson will ask the NHS to conduct an official, open survey of staff shortages by the end of the financial year to resolve 'stupid disputes' between management and staff over figures.

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    On pain of death

    1999-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Victims of General Pinochet's regime are among those the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture seeks to help. As the former Chilean dictator waits to hear whether he will be extradited, Wendy Moore reports on its work

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    Lazy days of summer

    1999-02-04T00:00:00Z

    It is commonly accepted that winter emergency admissions are a major cause of longer waiting lists. But, argues Neil Pettinger, the truth may have more to do with a slowdown in warmer months

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    Days like this

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    The launch of Working for Patients . . . Cook sceptical. . . HA chairs 'delighted'. . . 'right-wing nonsense'. . .King's Fund warning

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    Courtin' the middle

    1999-02-04T00:00:00Z

    The most uncomfortable job in the managerial hierarchy has to be the middle manager: dumped on by top managers and beset with seemingly impossible objectives on the one hand, and reviled as mere clipboard carriers by those they supervise on the other. An impossible job, and yet no organisation can ...

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    Prescription for conflict

    1999-02-04T00:00:00Z

    West Hertfordshire health authority chief executive Carolyn Regan has good reason to hope that the National Institute for Clinical Excellence will help managers fend off accusations of rationing.

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    Making cents

    1999-02-04T00:00:00Z

    The healthcare marketplace By Warren Greenberg Springer, New York 170 pages £30

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    Hancock calls for clarity on long-term nursing care

    1999-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Royal College of Nursing general secretary Christine Hancock has urged health secretary Frank Dobson to clarify the government's position on funding long-term nursing care.

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    Karen Caines: punishing schedule

    1999-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Karen Caines had everything you might look for in an IHSM director: a razor-sharp intellect, inside knowledge of the workings of government at its highest levels from her time as a Department of Health civil servant and experience as a senior NHS manager.

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    In brief: New Opportunities Fund

    1999-02-04T00:00:00Z

    The New Opportunities Fund, which will award National Lottery grants to health, education and environment projects, has been officially launched by its chair, Baroness Pitkeathley. The £300m grant programme for healthy living centres was opened to applications to tie in with the launch of the fund.

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    In brief: Frank Dobson

    1999-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Health secretary Frank Dobson has appointed Sir Brian Jarman as the medical member of the Bristol Royal Infirmary inquiry team. Sir Brian is emeritus professor at Imperial College school of medicine and a member of the government's Standing Medical Advisory Committee.

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    In brief: Frank Dobson

    1999-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Health secretary Frank Dobson has ordered 13 inner-city health authorities to draw up action plans for 'a fully effective' cervical cancer screening service. The government has set a target of 80 per cent coverage by March 2002.

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    In brief: Tessa Jowell

    1999-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Public health minister Tessa Jowell has invited schools to enter the Safe and Sound Challenge, an initiative to encourage children to walk or cycle to school. Ms Jowell said the initiative was a 'key priority' in the government's public health strategy.

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    In brief: Manor House Hospital

    1999-02-04T00:00:00Z

    A north London hospital with close links to the trade union movement is to close. Manor House Hospital in Golders Green will close in April. Manor House Friendly Society, which runs it, has sold the site to a developer.