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Manager s express doubts over Milburn's plans for shake-up of NHS finance regime
Two key government proposals to shake up the financial regime of the NHS have been greeted with scepticism by managers' leaders who say they cannot see how the new approach will reduce bureaucracy.
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The out-of-hours doctor who quit general practice to 'get a life'
Paddy Glackin spent two years as a GP principal in north London before deciding he wanted 'to get a life'. Now he works for two London out-of- hours co-operatives and often takes time off to travel abroad.
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Dirty washing
A Welsh trust's decision to privatise sterile services has led to the first strike in the NHS since Labour came to power.
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Is the use of such data 'new or true' ?
John Appleby (Data briefing, 4 June) is misleadingly dismissive of the substantial body of evidence suggesting a causal relationship between income inequality, poor health and raised mortality.
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Lighthouse nears rocks as consultation rethinks
Campaigners hoping to save the London Lighthouse HIV/AIDS centre as a health service facility have agreed to co-operate in a new consultation exercise which excludes it as a future provider of residential services.
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The locum who switched to the private sector in a search for 'consistency'
The uncertain future of general practice in the NHS was one of the factors that made Kevin Ling switch to the private sector.
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Staffing crisis looms at screening centres
Breast cancer screening services could be facing a staffing crisis as pressure grows to bring more women into the scheme.
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Case notes:
former United Bristol Healthcare trust chief executive John Roylance returns to the General Medical Council this week to hear submissions on whether the 'finding on the facts' against him and surgeons James Wisheart and Janardan Dhasmana in the Bristol baby deaths case amounts to professional misconduct.
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Low pay and poor working conditions, but the reward is helping to deliver high-quality care
While I agree with Simone Plaut's view (Letters, 4 June) that managerial, secretarial, financial and maintenance professionals in healthcare would not generally have a direct patient interaction role, I would point out that in the case of medical secretaries, it is highly likely that they will interact with patients frequently, ...
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MPs call for tobacco tax to fund cessation campaign
Senior backbench Labour MPs are calling for a windfall tax on tobacco companies to fund an anti-smoking campaign. They say the government should include the measure in its forthcoming white paper on smoking.
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Standing out from the bunch
Shadow health minister Alan Duncan may believe in the mass 'liquidation' of government, but claims the NHS should be spared. So what does he want to do with it, asks Patrick Butler
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'Tories failed to tackle POA bully-boy tactics'
Conservative health ministers showed 'political weakness' in failing to tackle the Prison Officers Association head-on over its role in the special hospitals, claim two former top managers.
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Building to scale
One of the new Primary Care Act pilot sites, Community Health Sheffield trust in partnership with a Sheffield inner city GP practice, is developing a 'salaried practice'. This raises several issues, including developing the GP salary scale, GPs' fears about their relationship with the trust, and concerns about management and ...
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Bug bust-up
Few trusts are prepared for dealing with the year 2000 bug. And most want more resources and more guidance from the centre. Peter Mitchell reports
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in brief
NHS chief executive Alan Langlands headed a long list of health service staff in the Queen's birthday honours. There were CBEs for North Thames regional director Ron Kerr and Northern and Yorkshire regional chair Zahida Manzoor, and OBEs for Newcastle City Health trust chief executive Lionel Joyce and Bromley health ...
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Siemens Healthcare Services is conducting a 'full strategy review' of all its products, including the flagship Open-PAS patient administration system. A spokesperson said all aspects of the company's business operations were being examined by the new managing director, Robin Williams, who arrived in a shake-up last month. Siemens will announce ...
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IT bug claims its first victim as booking system crashes
The first trust has already fallen victim to the millennium computer bug, the Audit Commission revealed this week.
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The Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service proposals
The SNBTS proposals, which are out for consultation until 26 August, involve a two-phase restructuring of services.
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'Reforms to blame' for upheaval in Scotland
Conflicting reforms are set to cause a major IT upheaval in Scotland's NHS, according to Unison.