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Primary care groups The expertise that PCGs need is already there - in the community trusts
Your detailed report on primary care group functions and the need for professional and management support ('Supra troupers', page 26, 14 January) was a timely contribution to the debate around the organisational development needs of primary care groups.
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After Henry
The NHS Bill is a skeletal piece of legislation which conjures up the ghost of Henry Vlll in the powers it gives ministers. Lyn Whitfield reports
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Managers beg Blair to act on intensive care
Managers have appealed to prime minister Tony Blair for action to halt a 'crisis' in intensive care in London.
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The government is taking the right road with a centralised system for reclaiming traffic accident costs
Seamus Ward gave an interesting report on the new Road Traffic (NHS Charges) Bill ('One for the road', pages 22-25, 14 January).
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'I don't want to be associated with those who abuse the system'
Patrick Grant, consultant in accident and emergency medicine at Western Infirmary, Glasgow, would welcome a new contract drawing a clearer line between NHS and private work. He supports the idea floated by government leaks of paying consultants more for a full-time NHS commitment with no private practice allowed. Those who ...
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Lords above - it's time to enhance the NHS brand
While the Commons last week debated the bill to purge the hereditary peers, and Labour MP Dr Howard Stoate was fighting off pleas from male colleagues for Viagra prescriptions (name them, demanded Teresa Gorman), the Lords quietly staged their annual debate on the NHS. What a rich mix of fascinating ...
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Never mind the routine organisational angst, what about the opportunities?
I would like to take issue with your editorial on mergers, 'Upheaval, mayhem, poor morale and for what?' (comment, 21 January).
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Sound post
In the second of an occasional series on the progress of Plymouth's health action zone, Laura Donnelly finds that the pressure to deliver means targets are not always as radical as they might be
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What the new strategy says
Sam Galbraith's strategy for dealing with mentally disordered offenders has messages for all agencies - courts, prison, police, social work departments, health boards and trusts - involved with mentally disordered offenders.
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Lessons in market values
The government's application of 'third way' thinking to the public sector is becoming clearer. At least it is in education , where the private sector is being encouraged, if not actively courted, to apply to provide a range of educational services, run schools and even whole education authorities.
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Out of kilter
Scotland has a new strategy for mentally disordered offenders. Barbara Millar reports
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Welfare and the state it's in
The welfare state in Britain since 1945 (2nd edition) By Rodney Lowe Macmillan 357 pages £45 hardback/£14.99 paperback
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Underwriting the moral issues
Healthcare, ethics and insurance Edited by Tom Sorell Routledge 234 pages £15.99
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Schism at the IHSM
Karen Caines says her successor as IHSM director should be someone who 'doesn't mind being slagged off '. But what measures should be used to assess their performance if membership and money are ruled out? Mark Crail reports
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Scottish high-security shake-up
Health and social care services for mentally disordered offenders in Scotland are to be overhauled.
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Heretic
A butterfly's wings flapping in a Brazilian jungle, eventually contributing to a hurricane in Britain, illustrates chaos theory. Perhaps the theory also explains why the unanticipated arrival of winter and attendant bed pressures generates a media clamour for nurse education to be removed from where thinking is encouraged. Ironically, the ...
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Jobs warning as shadow PCGs make firstmove to trust status
Managers and GPs have warned that further 'wholesale reorganisation' and job losses could follow if dozens of primary care groups decide to move towards trust status in 1999.