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Drury steps in to new top post
Peter Drury has been appointed head of the NHS’s information policy unit, a new post carrying a salary of up to £95,000.
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Treating the drug-cost headache by tapping into regional expertise
PCGs will be under considerable pressure to cut prescribing costs and obtain the best value for money from drugs.
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Our egalitarian government should halt this drain on the public purse
I received a flyer from QMW Public Policy Seminars, London University, inviting me to hand over £300 of public money (£259 plus VAT) to attend a day seminar on inequalities in health.
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Tribunal ruling significance played down
Managers have played down the significance of an employment appeal tribunal ruling hailed as a major boost for family-friendly policies by union leaders.
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Demolished trust store in radioactive 'near miss'
A trust has fallen foul of the Environment Agency after a store containing radioactive waste was partly demolished.
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Days like this
Importing radical health reforms... Broadmoor managers... local health councils... nurses' pay... banning eggs from hospitals...
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Complaints convenors can be impartial...
Hilda Harvey's letter (3 December) shows a level of prejudice and bias that does little to instil confidence in her independence as a complaints convenor.
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Wiping the floor with comments on pay
I appreciate that doctors' pay is a significant issue, but it is grossly overstated by Nizam Mamode, deputy chair of the British Medical Association's junior doctors committee ('Quick march', 3 December).
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A come-back for public service
'The desire to preserve and improve 'our' NHS is still strong enough to bind individuals through enormous changes'
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Getting the cold shoulder
Has Sam Galbraith's personal winter crisis damaged his chances of becoming Scotland's first health minister? Colin Wright reports; 'For a man who was presented as a 'safe pair of hands', he has begun to look a little clumsy'
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When the chips are down
Some hospitals now seem confident of thwarting the millennium computer bug. Other are worried about basic utilities and concern over IT staffing levels is widespread. Peter Mitchell reports; 'Staffing over the meltdown period is the real problem'
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St Tony of Lost Causes tends the sick at heart
Now that Charlie Whelan has hung up his boots as spin doctor to Chancellor Brown it is safe to say without fear of reprisal that there are distinct dangers attached to over-cleverness in his trade.
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Executive steps in to prevent GP 'carve-up'
A regional office has stepped in to prevent a health authority paying GPs to manage a primary care group instead of appointing a chief executive.
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Cancer trials: money is not only currency of success
Alan Maynard's article ('Looking Askance', 19 November), on the cost-effectiveness of cancer services, was disappointing in its narrowness of approach.
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Fancy brick work
How much support exists for the health select committee's proposal to integrate fully health and social services, wonders Pat Healy; 'Bringing them together would be a disaster. You can't force people to work together'
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Commissioners call for spending boost to finance free elderly care
What the commission recommends
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Ministers want single pay review body structure as part of modernisation drive
Ministers floated their first thoughts on how the proposed new pay system for the NHS might work this week - just as they are gearing up to announce this year's pay awards, which sources say will be on 4 February.
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Nurses on PCG boards
5 February, London; 12 February, York; 19 February, Liverpool; 26 February, Cambridge; 5 March, Derby