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University challenge
Health service managers are moving into university research and development posts, bringing extra funds in their wake, and getting a chance to work more analytically and reflectively, reports Bernadette Friend
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Cause for complaint
'This year's report makes depressing reading: not only is the volume of complaints rising inexorably - not in itself a bad thing - but the ability of the NHS to deal with them seems not to improve'
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The People's Dobbo takes on the fat cats BY MICHAEL WHITE
By happy coincidence Lord Sainsbury of Turville, the grocery tycoon, chose to announce his imminent retirement from the board of the family firm in the very week that 'fat cat' rhetoric resurfaced in our great national press and, heaven help us, in the vocabulary of our great NHS as well.
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MPs 'shocked' at wait for cataract ops in Scotland
The NHS in Scotland has come under fire from MPs for a failure to achieve targets for cataract surgery and so realise annual savings of pounds1.5m.
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Doubts cast on dramatic fall in hospital deaths
Hospital deaths and emergency admissions have fallen dramatically at trusts taking part in a programme to tackle poor clinical outcomes.
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Green light for health and social care trust
Health and local authority chiefs have given the go-ahead to plans for the first mental health and social services trust outside Northern Ireland.
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Primary care group money fails to quell fears as GPs deliver ultimatum
Ministers last week pledged a pounds22m boost for the new primary care groups but failed to allay doctors' fears about the way the changes are being managed.
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Consent ruling on Caesarians
A long-awaited ruling last Thursday by the Court of Appeal will stem the tide of NHS trusts making pleas to the High Court to sanction emergency Caesareans on women who refuse consent.
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Ministers move cautiously on pooled budgets
Pooled budgets for health and social services will eventually be introduced but they are not a 'magic wand' for breaking down inter-agency barriers, MPs heard last week.
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IN BRIEF
Barristers were up in arms when the top 40 legal aid earners were 'named and shamed' by the Lord Chancellor's Department. One QC, who often acts for plaintiffs in medical negligence cases, and was paid more than pounds300,000 from the legal aid fund in 1996-97, protested that he won 82 ...
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IN BRIEF
The British Medical Association's council has voted unanimously to join the Jubilee 2000 campaign, which is calling for a 'once and for all' cancellation of third world debt. Council chair Sandy Macara has already written to the prime minister and senior government figures urging them to take a lead on ...
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HOW CAN NACGP KNOW WHAT WE'VE SAID IF IT HASN'T BOTHERED TO LISTEN?
I was most surprised to read in your report about the creation of a new primary care organisation, the National Association of Primary Care, that Andrew Willis of the National Association of Commissioning GPs said it had not been possible to agree principles between his organisation, NAFP and the Association ...
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Bona Lisa:
Bona Lisa: one of the 20 images on show at the Wellcome Trust's Two10 gallery in the sixth of a series of exhibitions 'exploring the relationship between contemporary medical science and art'. This picture shows a 2.8mm sample of bone from an 89-year-old woman with osteoporosis.The biomedical image awards - ...
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CHANGE MUST COME, AND THE SOONER THE BETTER
The merger of acute and community trusts, the closure of 'cottage hospitals', the rights of healthcare 'consumers', and fears about primary care groups going the way of US managed care are all very closely linked to the thorny issue of accountability within the system for the integrated delivery of a ...
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'SAVE BART'S' PETITION WAS DONE BY THE BOOK
How odd that NHS chief executive Alan Langlands has not woken up to the desperate plight of old and sick people in London, and realised, as health secretary Frank Dobson has, that Bart's has enormous support because it is sorely needed (Monitor, 23 April).
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Teenagers are 'badly let down by managers'
Teenagers are being badly let down by NHS managers, who are leaving them to languish in adult wards and failing to develop services for their specific needs, a health consortium claims.
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Health authority principles on tackling poverty
Where services are resource-limited, they will be targeted at those in poverty.
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Magnetic attraction to nurses
One great story about Florence Nightingale is rarely told. It describes how the forthright Florence refused to work unless she was given control over the whole environment in which patients were nursed. She was confident they would get better more quickly if nurses were put in charge of their care. ...