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Take it from the top: Janet Snell gathers a range of views from health managers
Philip Sands, director of corporate strategy, Calderdale and Kirklees health authority
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The government's response to Utting: main points
All children entering care to be offered a health assessment.
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Hit or myth
It is a myth that managers motivate their staff. Surely, says Robert Keys, it's the other way round
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Lawyers at large
The legal and ethical aspects of telemedicine By BA Stanberry Royal Society of Medicine Press 172 pages £19.99
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A life in the theatre: survey results
All but one of the trusts identified current nursing and operating department assistant staff vacancies in their theatres. The number of vacancies reported ranged from four to 26 - equivalent to 10 per cent overall.
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The third man
John Hutton is the third member of a now influential political triumvirate. Patrick Butler reports on the new junior health minister's rise to power
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A health authority chief executive who probably wishes to remain nameless reveals the latest government thinking on a new system of patient- centred PCGs. 'The core of the new system will be the establishment of patient consultative groups,' according to a secret document he has helpfully sent to Monitor. Every ...
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Theatre people
Cutting waiting lists depends on high levels of overtime by operating theatre staff, but this is no long-term solution to persistent shortages. Jonathan Edgar and colleagues report on a survey
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Professionals with a purpose
'Lengths of stay and waiting lists are ideal measurements, easy to count and to change; kindness and caring are virtually impossible to identify or to measure, so they have largely disappeared from the NHS lexicon'
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Settling in
The NHS is being urged both to improve access to healthcare for refugees and to integrate more refugee doctors into the service. Barbara Millar reports
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The Government's policy of charging for some social care services might be reviewed if it could be proved that charging was 'cost ineffective,' a senior Department of Health official has suggested.
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I read with interest Steve Ainsworth's article 'Phoney wars' (15 October).
I read with interest Steve Ainsworth's article 'Phoney wars' (15 October). Although the original intention of the writers of the appropriate part of the Statement of Fees and Allowances (SFA or 'Red Book') was that 'telephone advice' would not attract a fee, it is unimportant as the wording did not ...
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Chancellor finds extra £250m to cope with winter pressures
Chancellor Gordon Brown found an extra £250m 'winter cash' for the NHS in his pre-budget statement on Tuesday.
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Dr JAF Napier of the Welsh Blood Service, who confuses income and salary (Letters, 24 September)
Dr JAF Napier of the Welsh Blood Service, who confuses income and salary (Letters, 24 September), urges that I be burnt at the stake for suggesting half of all consultants earn more than the average of £100,000. It is, of course, possible that the private practice gravy-train slows significantly after ...
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The times they are a-changin'
The working time directive will cost the NHS millions and impose heavy new responsibilities on employers. John Northrop and Keith Hearn explain
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MPs act on 'missing link' between managersds; MPs act after evidence of 'poor communication' across the NHS
MPs are to tackle 'poor communication' between managers and frontline clinical staff in a wide-ranging inquiry into the NHS workforce.
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Action points for employers
Establish which employees the regulations apply to, especially those who do not provide a 'continuous service' or are not directly involved in patient care.
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Ahead of the field
Are the health needs of people who live in the countryside on the government's agenda at last? Janet Snell reports on a recent forum