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Pioneering programme teams managers with lecturers in attempt to marry practice and development
Chris Ham stresses the importance of management development grounded in management practice, and suggests a practitioner faculty as one answer. We agree, but are experimenting with other approaches to forge this link.
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Short cuts King's Fund appoints new senior associates
Baroness Cumberlege, Lord Harris of Haringey, Catherine McLoughlin and Sir Leslie Turnberg have been appointed senior associates of the King's Fund. Sir Leslie will work with the Health Quality Service on clinical standards, while NHS Confederation chair Ms McLoughlin will work on 'professional roles and leadership development'. Baroness Cumberlege, a ...
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Short cuts Colorectal cancer screening pilots announced
Ministers have announced colorectal cancer screening pilot services for England and Scotland. The English site is in Coventry and Warwickshire. The Scottish pilot is in Tayside, Grampian and Fife. The project will run for two years, with screening kits sent to patients' homes, before being sent to laboratories for testing. ...
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Short cuts Call for action on private healthcare 'deficiencies'
The government has been urged to tackle 'fundamental deficiencies' in private healthcare by Action for Victims of Medical Accidents. In evidence to the health select committee, AVMA says 'inadequate specialist medical and nursing cover' is a 'critical factor' in failures to diagnose post- operative complications at private hospitals. It says ...
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Probe reveals ambulance trust 'overstated' 999 response times
An ambulance trust 'overstated' emergency response times, an investigation has found.
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Brown promises £500m extra for NHS
Chancellor Gordon Brown saved the announcement of an extra £500m for the NHS until the dying minutes of his Budget speech on Tuesday.
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Short cuts £40m earmarked to put an end to mixed-sex wards
The government is directing £40m of this year's £1.1bn NHS capital investment programme towards eliminating mixed-sex wards. Health secretary Frank Dobson, who described the allocation as 'the first real-terms increase in capital for the NHS in the last five years', said 95 per cent of health authorities should be able ...
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Wait watchers
Casualty Watch observers returned to their posts one month on from a national exercise to discover all was not well. Barbara Millar reports
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Not so private: views on PFI
'There were a lot of hopes pinned on PFI. I think in terms of its aspirations it was seriously flawed. A lot of the schemes were predicated on pretty poor foundations. The only way they were ever going to be viable was by including so many of the support services ...
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Other recommendations of the report
A single pay spine should be introduced for all NHS staff, including ancillary workers.
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The public has a part to play in NHS rationing
In your recent news focus ('Arousing debate', page 12-13, 4 February) about the government's plans to limit prescribing of Viagra, I read with much interest Professor Ruth Chambers' comments that health secretary Frank Dobson 'fell at the first hurdle...' because 'if rationing is to be effective, you have to carry ...
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monitor
It was fluffy bunnies at the local animal sanctuary (Monitor, 18 February). But now Monitor can reveal the real John Hutton. He is born to be mild. Our man in the waterproofs and trilby crash helmet was ushered into the junior health minister's presence last week to hear about government ...
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Welsh NHS stocktake is a surprise to managers
Managers have been baffled by the announcement of a major 'stocktake' of the NHS in Wales.