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Scots trusts told to open PFI plans to public scrutiny
Scottish trusts have been told to open up key private finance initiative documents to public scrutiny.
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Occupied territory
Good occupational health makes financial sense, but many trusts don't realise it. Mark Crail reports
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What's in a name?
PHA was set up in 1987, as part of the resistance to the developing agenda of the Conservative government, by a group of people who met at the Health Education Council.
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Monitor
First, his boss, Tony Blair, signalled he would like to see the health secretary enter the race to become mayor of London. Now other colleagues have followed suit. A poll of Labour MPs by market research group Opinion Leader Research found Dobbo to be the top choice among those mooted ...
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Time for a meeting of minds
A year into the current Labour administration we have policy initiatives that radically change the ideological basis of mental health services. Yet these initiatives have not been accompanied by clear thinking on the skills that managers will need to be able to deliver this new agenda or how organisations will ...
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Key Points
Managers interviewed in hospital trusts, health authorities and regional offices believed performance indicators to be broadly helpful. But our study found evidence that the role of the current performance indicators is distinctly limited.
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Key Points
The policy agenda for mental health services requires managers to develop new skills.
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Screen hero
Whistleblower Neil Woodward brought to light serious flaws in cervical screening at Kent and Canterbury trust, yet tells Mark Gould he feels his action has made him unemployable in the NHS
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QUERIES: JOINT WORKING, PLANNING, MENTAL HEALTH
I have recently been given the opportunity to act as elderly day care liaison nurse between day care services from health and social services. The people I will be involved with are over 65 and have a diagnosis of dementia.
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PROOF THAT THE GOVERNMENT IS LISTENING TO GRASS-ROOTS ON MENTAL HEALTH
The latest leaked mental health strategy continues to whet the appetite (News Focus, page 11, 30 April). Prioritising both intensive health-based services (assertive outreach and 24-hour nursed beds) and social care (supported housing, meaningful occupations) reflects a growing consensus on what a comprehensive locally based service should look like.
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Jackie Ford scoffs at the slightest suggestion that leaving the NHS for university life is a soft option.
To nail home her point she will reel off a list of performance measures and targets she has to meet which are, she says, every bit as demanding as those she faced in the health service.
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news focus
This time next year, a new UK association for public health could be up and running.
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Fax and figures
Just as a row over closures and cost savings was cooling down, a minor clerical error reignited it.
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Doctors' orders?
Few organisations of standing within the NHS would have the brass neck to issue ultimatums to government. And perhaps only one would do so in near complete self-confidence that its two-week deadline would be met. Step forward the British Medical Association (see News, page 7).
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JOB DESCRIPTION PUZZLE
As someone who gets paid to do a job, and gets to work thanks to a train-driving professional, I am puzzled by the term 'health professionals', which I frequently see in your pages.
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Council of optimism
Social workers are long overdue for regulation by a statutory body. But, as Lynn Eaton reports, care workers in residential and nursing homes may still slip through the net
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MPs condemn standard of leadership at heart of NHS
MPs this week condemned the 'poor care and poor management' of many trusts and health authorities investigated by the health service commissioner and demanded that NHS central management take a closer interest in the performance of all NHS bodies.