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Beacons of excellence to encourage others
Trusts and GP practices will be invited to become 'beacons of excellence' and receive extra money to help others improve their performance, Mr Blair told the conference.
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BMA drops PCG ballot threat but demands stop to PFI
A last-ditch attempt by GP hardliners to scuttle the government's NHS reforms was overwhelmingly rejected by the British Medical Association's 'annual parliament' this week.
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Babies die due to 'poor clinical management'
Babies are dying because of 'poor clinical management' and the failure of some GPs to detect serious illness, an influential study has found.
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Local authority chiefs take less from the kitty
I am wholly in favour of top managers in the public services being properly paid, but 'Fair shares of the kitty' (cover feature, pages 24- 27, 25 June), in examining NHS pay levels, claimed that local authorities 'pay their chief executives as generously, if not more generously, than NHS chief ...
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Art of medicine
Art of medicine: consultant gynaecologist Sarah Gull contributes to West Suffolk Hospital's summer exhibition, as theatre manager Nicola Sharpe looks on. Ms Gull came up with the idea for the show, which features work by theatre staff.
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NHS chiefs told to answer back
Chief of health authorities and trusts were urged in a health service circular to respond to the quality consultation document A First Class Service. The main elements are:
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Redbridge and Waltham Forest - from one model to another
This area shows the problems of trying to move from one commissioning model to another.
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South and West Devon - an amicable process
This is one of the areas where the process of establishing primary care groups has been amicable.
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Alzheimer's campaign challenges drug claims
The Alzheimer's Disease Society has challenged researchers' claims that new drug therapies could effectively pay for themselves by keeping patients out of institutional care.
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Invoking the past to help deliver all our tomorrows
So was it all worth it? For three short days the health service's 50th birthday extravaganza at Earl's Court commanded the presence of the great and good, as well as some high-ranking international guests and plenty of media attention. But in the process it almost bankrupted the NHS Confederation. Initial ...
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All in a life's work
The jacket calls this 'a dazzling intellectual biography of one of the greatest management theorists and social thinkers of our time'. If one leaves out the first adjective, this is a fair description of its contents. It is an intellectual biography in the sense that it gives a chronological account ...
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Ashworth inquiry ends with call to close all the special hospitals
The inquiry into allegations of pornography and child abuse at Ashworth special hospital ended this week with a dramatic plea for the special hospitals to be closed.
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London Lighthouse shines on for people living with HIV and AIDS
I am writing to object to the headline about London Lighthouse ('Lighthouse nears rocks as consultation rethinks', News, page 7, 18 June).
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Lambden withdraws industrial tribunal claim against trade union
A potentially bitter public row between a trade union and its former chief executive was averted at the 11th hour this week.
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Adding weight to measures
Health secretary Frank Dobson put quality at the 'heart of the NHS' in a warmly received speech, strongly reaffirming the government's commitment to the current financing of the service.
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Adapting and improving Scottish blood service
I read with interest your News Focus, 'In similar vein' (page 16, 18 June), and would like to clarify the strategy proposals put forward for the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service.
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The Scottish Accounts Commission's recommendations
Limit locum appointments to unavoidable or unplanned absences such as sick leave.
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Questions about HAs and health promotion
I agree wholeheartedly with Pam Cooper (Letters, 4 June) that health promotion specialists, by virtue of their experience in working across agency boundaries for many years, have the potential to make a major contribution to the development of health improvement programmes and primary care groups, given the organisational position of ...
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A 50th birthday resolution for the NHS: treat staff and users as adults
The issues for debate during the NHS's 50th anniversary concern its core values: professionalism, consumerism and the notion of the public sector.