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Professor Rory Shaw
has become medical director of Hammersmith Hospitals trust. He is a specialist in respiratory medicine and led the development of a new curriculum at Imperial College School of Medicine.
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Scenario one: a third way
There was a time when patients expected the NHS to be there on demand, however trivial the complaint. Yet as people became better informed they came to realise the limits of what the tax system can deliver.
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Whatever next?
Public service managers are trying to see into the future, not through a crystal ball but with a series of questionnaires. Mark Crail took a sidelong glance
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Managers summoned over Welsh waiting lists
Senior NHS managers have been summoned to meet Welsh health minister Jon Owen Jones to 'discuss their contributions' to reducing lengthening waiting lists.
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On the transfer list?
Managers were dissatisfied when health minister Alan Milburn refused to make guarantees about jobs or places on PCG boards at the IHSM/AMGP primary care conference.
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Kidney moans
Treatment for renal failure is missing its clinical targets. Mark Crail reports on new data
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Working together to support mentally ill people at risk
Chris Heginbotham, chief executive of East and North Hertfordshire health authority admits that a joint mental health risk team was set up on the suggestion of Hertfordshire social services director Ian White. Both were concerned about patients with a history of mental illness who were living in the community and ...
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Hitting an upbeat note
While a number of those attending the chief executives' forum would recognise the somewhat bleak mood described, I suspect others would not.
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Hillingdon strikers win reinstatement
A three-year dispute at Hillingdon Hospital has ended with an industrial tribunal ruling that 25 Asian domestic and catering staff, sacked for refusing to take cuts in pay and conditions, should be reinstated and paid compensation totalling almost 300,000.
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Poor health
Some of 'the best health data in the world' has been pulled together, for the first time, in a report clearly showing the link between material deprivation and ill health in Scotland. It reveals that deprived Scots experience greater mental health problems and have a higher incidence of coronary heart ...
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The patients' guide - to reinventing the wheel
I was pleased to read Ian Wylie's review of The NHS Home Healthcare Guide (Books, page 35, 17 September).
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Social policy 'must focus on inequalities'
The chair of the government's inquiry into inequalities in health has called for 'health inequality impact assessments' to be applied to all areas of social policy.
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Key management role for those in the first line
Jaki Meekings' doubts about the level of management skill available in primary care (Letters, 8 October) are seriously misplaced. Are health authorities consistently successful in managing - or more correctly - in controlling NHS budgets?
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The NHS Executive
The NHS Executive has pulled back from compelling health authorities and trusts to sign a public assurance that all their clinical and non- clinical risks are assessed and properly managed by the year 2000.
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Tale of two views: were we at the same event?
Reading your report on the second annual forum of trust and health authority chief executives, I wonder: was I a guest at the same event?