All News articles – Page 2212
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A life of their own
Amid the excitement over the start of primary care groups, it is widely assumed that Primary Care Act pilots will be assimilated into the new system. But some pilots are determined to continue to build on their successes. Thelma Agnew reports
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Interviewees
These came from three health authorities and seven acute, community or specialist trusts. They included:
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Red herring
GPs' terms of service and fees are set out in the 'Red Book' first published in 1966 as a slim booklet. It now covers 82 sections and about 70 separate fee rates. Angela McCullagh and others say it is time to get rid of it
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Pioneering integrated mental health services
With reference to Elizabeth Bayliss's letter (9 July), recommending that services should work jointly, we feel it important to point out that in Hackney we are almost unique in having had jointly provided mental health services for the past four years.
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How having a knees-up can do a world of good
A colleague answered the phone for me the other day. He left a message saying, 'Russell of Kensington rang - he can't make it tonight.'
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NHS scanning going out to private sector
The Society of Radiographers is calling for government action to stop the 'creeping privatisation' of NHS scanning.
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Giving people what you want
Campaigners have accused a health authority of pre-empting the results of public consultation on its reconfiguration plans.
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Genning up on genetics
In the disruption surrounding the setting up of primary care groups, the cutting of waiting lists and the merging or closing of hospitals, it is easy to ignore what is on, or just over, the horizon. Genomics falls into this category.
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Waiting games
Health secretary Frank Dobson said 'hospital waiting lists have fallen by 45,000 over the past three months'.
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Scant evidence that performance-related pay is a motivator for staff
Performance-related pay and job evaluation
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Heroic effort of NHS in Omagh tragedy
I was glad to see HSJ reported on the tragedy of the Omagh bombing and the heroic efforts of staff at Tyrone County Hospital and other hospitals in Northern Ireland (News, 20 August). The way colleagues in Omagh in particular dealt with the results of this carnage is an example ...
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Poor pay drives staff out of NHS
More than a third of recently qualified health staff expect to leave the NHS in the next three years, says a survey by the staff side of professions allied to medicine.
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Open doors
The public can take guided tours of interesting NHS buildings -both old and new - on heritage open days in September. Barbara Millar explains
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The legacy of free market pay policy must be replaced with something less divisive
No other organisation boasts such a hotch-potch of unco-ordinated salary systems as the NHS. Several secretaries of state must shoulder responsibility. Bevan cobbled together the consultants' remuneration system - which combines moonlighting with a cloak and dagger performance appraisal - so as not to create 'an unfair worsening of a ...
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Dobson sets winter pressures deadline
Health authorities and trusts have been given just four weeks to detail plans for dealing with this year's winter pressures.
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NHS pay group should keep to the principle of simplicity if it wants to gain staff confidence
I refer to the news story 'Pay working group collapses as BMA and RCN withdraw' (page 2, 6 August).
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Complaints procedure criticised
The revised NHS complaints system is making it more difficult for people to complain about general practice, Scottish health councils have warned.
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Cornwall service transfer plans clarified
The plans produced by Cornwall and Isles of Scilly health authority to achieve revenue savings, mainly through the closure of four community hospitals, did not include the transfer of additional elective surgery to St Michael's