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Dobson plans new grading for nurses
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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Feeling the squeeze
Happy with their lot or keen to move on? Janet Snell asked middle managers how they see their role and prospects
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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.
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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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Scottish high-security shake-up
Health and social care services for mentally disordered offenders in Scotland are to be overhauled.
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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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Underwriting the moral issues
Healthcare, ethics and insurance Edited by Tom Sorell Routledge 234 pages £15.99
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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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Out of kilter
Scotland has a new strategy for mentally disordered offenders. Barbara Millar reports
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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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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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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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Steep rise in NHS dentists earning more than £200,000
The number of dentists earning more than £200,000 a year from the NHS has increased dramatically.
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Private work nets £288m for trusts
The NHS is continuing to win business from the private healthcare sector, according to the latest Fitzhugh Directory of NHS Trusts.
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1999 start-date for CHI looks doubtful
Doubts are emerging that the Commission for Health Improvement, the government's key quality body, will be set up this year as promised in The New NHS white paper.