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Don't ignore the constructive message of the chief executives' forum
Your Comment (1 October) accurately reflected the feeling of chief executives at their recent forum that they wished to be more involved in NHS policy and wished to work on increasing their powers of influence.
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Duel carriageway
How could the new statutory duty of partnership placed on health and local authorities change existing relationships and working partnerships? David Owens thinks the road leads to conflict
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London Initiative Zone: a capital idea whose legacy should be preserved
Six years as a GP principal in Greenwich leave me in no doubt that the pressures on primary healthcare services are rising. The London Initiative Zone was welcome, and many - patients and staff - have benefited from premises improvements ('LIZ: a legacy for London', pages 24-27, 1 October).
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CMO launches flu jab campaign
Professor Liam Donaldson, England's new chief medical officer, this week launched a national campaign to make clinicians and the public aware of the importance of flu vaccinations.
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Quebec on call
Quebec's pioneering network of community health and social care centres provide easily accessible integrated services on a neighbourhood basis. Helen Busby and colleagues explain how they work
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Managers call for power
Government drives to improve quality in the NHS could give managers responsibility for clinical performance without giving them power to change clinical practice, says the Institute of Health Services Management.
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Government will not order utility firms to put NHS first if IT bug hits
The NHS will have to rely on the good will of power, water and telephone companies for priority treatment if the millennium computer bug hits supplies, it emerged this week.
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Daily transcripts of the inquiry into the deaths of children during heart surgery at Bristol Royal Infirmary will be published on a website when hearings begin next year.
Daily transcripts of the inquiry into the deaths of children during heart surgery at Bristol Royal Infirmary will be published on a website when hearings begin next year. The site, launched this week, will initially include details of the inquiry's terms of reference and the opening speech by inquiry chair ...
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Partnership provides emergency bed
In Solihull, the Grove Road GP practice, a total purchasing project, and Solihull social services department have agreed to jointly purchase a bed in a nursing home for patients who may need emergency 24-hour care.
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Big cash handouts are too low for big bang reform Realistic salary scales for PCG chiefs have been set but cash is still short
There will be considerable relief that health minister Alan Milburn has set the salary scale for primary care group chief executives at a realistic level (see News, page 4). The individuals appointed to these jobs will be crucial to the success of the whole PCG project, and it is vital ...
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The public health white paper, originally due for the autumn, is now likely to be published in in the New Year.white paper.
The public health white paper, originally due for the autumn, is now likely to be published in in the new year. According the Financial Times, an official explained that the plan was to launch it before Christmas, 'but we felt it was a bit nannying to tell people about cutting ...
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Long-term care commission look to Australia
Proposals to reform care for elderly people in Britain are likely to borrow from the system in Australia, it emerged this week.
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Remember the halcyon days when Dobbo could drop a personal letter to a million NHS staff asking for suggestions
Remember the halcyon days when Dobbo could drop a personal letter to a million NHS staff asking for suggestions - and not be overwhelmed with anatomically inventive ideas about where to stick it? You may, but the Department of Health is trying to forget. To recap, Dobbo sent batches of ...
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Another degree of support for staff education
I read with interest the brief item on collaboration between Ashworth and Sheffield Hallam University to offer a degree in forensic care (News, page 4, 27 August).
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Can pay, won't pay Who will pick up The Working Time Directive tab? Not us, say agencies
Someone, somewhere has to pay for the Working Time Directive. Alas, many of the staffing agencies on which the NHS relies so heavily appear to have decided that it won't be them (see News, page ?).
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Agencies cash-in on working time limit
The NHS is facing a bill of at least 100m as employment agencies seek to exploit nursing shortages and the new European working time directive to drive up the costs of hiring agency staff.
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Royal College threatens A&E closure in Manchester
An accident and emergency department is threatened with closure after a critical report from the Royal College of Surgeons.
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Partnership in Action proposals
More joint working at strategic planning, service commissioning and service provision level closely monitored through either the Commission for Health Improvement, the Social Services Inspectorate or the Audit Commission, with joint national priorities and national performance frameworks.
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Delegates may have worried about the future of managers in the reforms. But one a more local issue they were absolutely clear. The merger between their two organisations was widely welcomed.
The new Institute of Healthcare Management will bring together both the old Institute of Health Services Management and the Association of Managers in General Practice.
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Milburn finds 9m for PCG recruitment
Primary care groups have won a 9.1m cash boost to recruit board members and staff before they start running in April next year.