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What is clinical governance?
The health secretary says: 'Clinical governance can be defined as a framework through which NHS organisations are accountable for continuously improving the quality of their services and safeguarding high standards of care by creating an environment in which excellence in clinical care will flourish.'2
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Complaint procedure 'not seen as impartial'
NHS complaints procedures are 'not seen as impartial' and 'haphazard training' leaves some review panel convenors to 'make up the rules as they go along', a Commons select committee heard last week.
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Government 'neglecting' PCG computer funding
The Royal Hospital Haslar in Portsmouth has established a telemedicine link to Bosnia, allowing consultants to give guidance on emergency care to a military field hospital. Photographs of trauma cases taken with an Olympus C-1400L digital camera are sent as e-mail, via satellite to England. Set up by doctors from ...
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Short cuts Move to deregister 'failing' consultants delayed
The General Medical Council has delayed a decision on setting up a scheme to remove consultants who fail regular competency tests from the specialist register. But the GMC is to press on with plans to make all doctors demonstrate that they are keeping themselves up to date and are still ...
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Quality control
Five years after the Internet entered public consciousness, the NHS is taking action to guide patients to use it wisely. Part of the NHS information strategy is a project to accredit information.
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WEB WATCH MARK CRAIL
London's 32 boroughs spent an estimated £126m on mental health services in 1997-98 - more than the combined total for all other metropolitan districts, and almost a quarter of the entire local government spend on such services across the whole of England and Wales.
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Short cuts Welsh waiting list figures show 'downward trend'
Figures released by the Government Statistical Service show that the number of Welsh residents waiting for hospital admission on 30 September was 74,269 - down 1,747 on 31 August. Welsh health minister Jon Owen Jones welcomed the 'positive downward trend' but condemned as 'completely unacceptable' a further rise in the ...
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Still a long way to go on equal opportunities, and subjectivity doesn't help
At first I thought Steve Ainsworth's piece on equal opportunities ('Opportunities knock', 29 October) was a spoof. I suspect instead that he gives us a perfect illustration of why the NHS and so many other employers still have significant work to do on equal opportunities.
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PFI mortgages the future of the NHS, and professionalism is at risk when profit drives the system
David Stelmach (Letters, 15 October) feels it is not the role of the Society of Radiographers to influence trusts in their choice of cost- efficient ways to acquire high technology.
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Fiddlesticks or fact?
Is there any substance to opposition claims that waiting lists are being 'fiddled' by the use of subsidiary lists? Laura Donnelly examines this and other accusations of manipulating waiting-list statistics
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Teachers' pay is no model - it's fallen as well
Christine Hancock (Observations, 29 October) should not be seeking to raise nurses' pay to match teachers' pay. My wife is a teacher, and has a new colleague who is an ex-nurse. He says that as a nurse he went to work, did the job and went home.
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The price of false prophecy
'Many cancer trials in recent decades have measured the end joint (the outcome) in terms of additional months or years of life. Trialists have been very reluctant to measure the quality of the additional time.'
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The price of false prophecy
'The cancer industry provides much advocacy and little evidence of cost-effectiveness...
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'In many ways we are still trying to find our feet'
Working in health promotion has given Trevor Lakey some of his biggest highs - but also some of his most devastating lows, 'particularly in terms of the battles you sometimes have to fight to achieve things', he says.
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To have and to hold
Delegates to last week's NHS Primary Care Group Alliance conference expressed their worry that plans to let individual practices keep half of any savings made under PCGs will recreate the inequalities of fundholding. Kaye McIntosh reports
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Manager's merger lawsuit raises 'wider issues'
The First Division Association has raised concerns about the treatment of managers involved in trust mergers after taking legal action on behalf of a former Welsh ambulance trust officer.
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monitor
More this week on secret plans for PCGs (that's the patient consultative groups revealed here last week). As you will recall, all patients are to be grouped into PCGs of roughly 500 people each. Our secret source reveals that practice budgets will be devolved to each PCG, whose duties will ...