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Together we can share responsibility for mental health
To allow mental health services to be 'single parents', as Matt Muijen recommends (Community Spirit, 21 May), is to condemn service users to a continuation of the nightmare that is much of current mental health provision in the inner city: disconnected services, dispirited staff and a blame culture in the ...
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A handle on harassment
The government is about to launch a campaign against racial harassment to ensure consistent handling of the issue throughout the health service, including by independent contractors.
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Something small but perfectly formed
My companion toyed with his chargrilled ciabatta and gazed abstractedly out over Islington High Street.
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Is the health service flawed or do HSJ readers enjoy self-flagellation?
In your 18 June issue, the first 12 stories carried the words 'victim', 'threat', 'attacks', 'doubts', 'revolt', 'marred', 'crisis', 'threatens', 'bad', 'pressure', 'rocks' and 'bully-boy'.
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Enfield and Haringey - geographical obstacles
Enfield and Haringey is an area that illustrates some of the geographical obstacles to setting primary care group boundaries. Ron Singer, chair of Enfield and Haringey commissioning executive, told a recent 'pan-London' conference that after 'meetings, meetings, meetings' the health authority produced an options document that included proposals for five ...
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Recruitment dive
Promises outlined by health secretary Frank Dobson for the next 50 years would not materialise unless the acute nursing recruitment and retention crisis was halted, Royal College of Nursing general secretary, Christine Hancock warned.
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Hospital death rates
How useful are clinical performance measures? And will they prevent such tragedies as the Bristol baby deaths case? John Appleby reports
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Scottish trusts make 'unnecessary use of locum medical cover' as costs double
Poor management is to blame for the high cost of locum medical cover, a report by the Accounts Commission for Scotland says.
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Going first class with the NHS
When The New NHS white paper was published six months ago, its focus on quality surprised many people. But while it made all the right noises, it also skilfully left much unsaid. The specifics would, we were told, be set out in a consultation paper.
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First thoughts on A First Class Service
Senior figures in healthcare were quick to respond to health secretary Frank Dobson's proposals on quality.
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Point your career in the right direction
Thinking of becoming an academic? Then this is the holiday reading for you. It tells you everything you need to know about academic careers, including the vital components of networking, teaching, researching and writing. What's that you say? You are already an academic. Hmmm, perhaps it might be better if ...
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Professor predicts that patients will be given control of their care
The NHS of 2023 will be totally patient-focused and have no long waiting times and much waste, the conference was told.
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Flight of the charge brigade
NHS chief executive Sir Alan Langlands has given the clearest signal yet that the comprehensive spending review led by the Treasury, which is due out next week, will rule out charging at the point of access for any NHS services.
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in brief
A small number of trusts have decided to give board-level directors no pay rise so that less senior managers can enjoy increases above the 2.7 per cent limit set by the Department of Health. A Pay and Workforce Research survey found three out of 50 trusts interpreting the pay ceiling ...
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Blair's speech: what the conference thought
Karen Caines, director, Institute of Health Services Management
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Three-year finance deal pledge by Blair
The health service is to get a three-year financial settlement which will 'offer sustainable year-on-year increases for the foreseeable future', prime minister Tony Blair promised last week's NHS management conference.
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Birthday greetings to the one they love
Well, what a week. Hardly a dry eye in sight by the time the Great and Good emerged from Westminster Abbey after the service to celebrate 50 years of the NHS. 'I felt very proud just to be there,' one health minister told me, grateful to be in the right ...
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Total purchasing study predicts PCGs won't cut management bill
The introduction of primary care groups is unlikely to reduce NHS management costs in their first few years, a King's Fund report has suggested.
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Warwickshire - one of the biggest rows
Warwickshire has seen one of the biggest rows over the establishment of primary care groups.