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Lighting up time
How will NICE work? And whatever happened to 'beacon' hospitals? Baroness Hayman has the answers. Mark Crail reports
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On the line
The government wants radical reform of consultants' contracts. Wendy Moore considers the likely outcomes
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Protests at low pay offer for managers
Senior managers are to be offered significantly lower pay rises than nurses, NHS chief executive Sir Alan Langlands has told trusts and health authorities.
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Over the threshold
Significant variations between hospitals in the severity of illness of patients admitted suggest it is time to draw up an ideal admissions system, say David Lawrence and colleagues
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Rational thinking
Elderly people have always been marginalised in NHS planning. But it's time to question what rationing and prioritising mean for older people, says Dorothy White
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Shark repellent
NHS credit unions can offer staff cheap loans and a way to bypass undesirable lenders, but their numbers are still low, writes Barbara Millar
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Supra? Sounds super
How interesting that Birmingham is the first to discover the benefits of what used to be called family practitioner committees.
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PCGs and fundholding will run in tandem following £19m legislative timing hitch
The government is to spend £19m closing down the GP fundholding scheme - but will have to set up another.
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Links between academics and doctors 'essential'
Strong links between academics and grassroots GPs are 'essential for the future' of general practice, a King's Fund study has concluded. The study found that medical education had 'changed little over the past 100 years', and a new partnership was needed to combat 'falling public confidence' and 'growing responsibilities' for ...
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Medical Defence Union issues advice on IT bug
The Medical Defence Union has written to members to reinforce advice on dealing with the millennium computer bug. It says doctors should 'assume that anything electronic they use in their practice could become date sensitive on 1 January' and other flashpoints, including 9 September this year and 29 February next ...
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Ministers armed to enforce those voluntary agreements
Health Bill gives government a trump card should push come to shove
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Denham agrees consultation on trust mergers
Health minister John Denham has given the go-ahead for public consultation on proposals to merge five trusts. Consultation on plans to merge East Yorkshire Hospitals trust and Royal Hull Hospitals trust starts tomorrow. Public consultation on proposals to create a single acute trust for Leicestershire from Glenfield Hospital trust, Leicester ...
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HA aims to collect data on patients struck off by GPs
Wigan and Bolton health authority is currently 'in the embryonic stages' of establishing a database to look for trends in cases where patients are struck off GP lists. It is also extending an existing conciliation service to patients who are removed without being given a reason. The moves follow a ...
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We ain't seen nothing yet
If the government insists on 3 per cent efficiency savings in hospital costs, next winter will be disastrous, says Simon Walford