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Long-term care commission look to Australia
Proposals to reform care for elderly people in Britain are likely to borrow from the system in Australia, it emerged this week.
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The public health white paper, originally due for the autumn, is now likely to be published in in the New Year.white paper.
The public health white paper, originally due for the autumn, is now likely to be published in in the new year. According the Financial Times, an official explained that the plan was to launch it before Christmas, 'but we felt it was a bit nannying to tell people about cutting ...
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Big cash handouts are too low for big bang reform Realistic salary scales for PCG chiefs have been set but cash is still short
There will be considerable relief that health minister Alan Milburn has set the salary scale for primary care group chief executives at a realistic level (see News, page 4). The individuals appointed to these jobs will be crucial to the success of the whole PCG project, and it is vital ...
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Partnership provides emergency bed
In Solihull, the Grove Road GP practice, a total purchasing project, and Solihull social services department have agreed to jointly purchase a bed in a nursing home for patients who may need emergency 24-hour care.
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Daily transcripts of the inquiry into the deaths of children during heart surgery at Bristol Royal Infirmary will be published on a website when hearings begin next year.
Daily transcripts of the inquiry into the deaths of children during heart surgery at Bristol Royal Infirmary will be published on a website when hearings begin next year. The site, launched this week, will initially include details of the inquiry's terms of reference and the opening speech by inquiry chair ...
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Government will not order utility firms to put NHS first if IT bug hits
The NHS will have to rely on the good will of power, water and telephone companies for priority treatment if the millennium computer bug hits supplies, it emerged this week.
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Quebec on call
Quebec's pioneering network of community health and social care centres provide easily accessible integrated services on a neighbourhood basis. Helen Busby and colleagues explain how they work
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Managers call for power
Government drives to improve quality in the NHS could give managers responsibility for clinical performance without giving them power to change clinical practice, says the Institute of Health Services Management.
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CMO launches flu jab campaign
Professor Liam Donaldson, England's new chief medical officer, this week launched a national campaign to make clinicians and the public aware of the importance of flu vaccinations.
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London Initiative Zone: a capital idea whose legacy should be preserved
Six years as a GP principal in Greenwich leave me in no doubt that the pressures on primary healthcare services are rising. The London Initiative Zone was welcome, and many - patients and staff - have benefited from premises improvements ('LIZ: a legacy for London', pages 24-27, 1 October).
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Duel carriageway
How could the new statutory duty of partnership placed on health and local authorities change existing relationships and working partnerships? David Owens thinks the road leads to conflict
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Don't ignore the constructive message of the chief executives' forum
Your Comment (1 October) accurately reflected the feeling of chief executives at their recent forum that they wished to be more involved in NHS policy and wished to work on increasing their powers of influence.
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Widdecombe considers widening PFI to NHS clinical services
The private sector would manage NHS hospitals and clinical services through an expanded private finance initiative under policy proposals being considered by shadow health secretary Ann Widdecombe as part of her review of Tory health policy.
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Clinical psychology offers waiting list insights
I was interested to read John Henderson's letter (13 August) on a means of waiting list management in child and adolescent mental health services.
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In from the cold
Health workers are involved in a joint team with other agencies to help rough sleepers off the streets. Family doctor Nigel Hewett describes its impact on 72 clients over six months
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Managers come in from the cold Managers' social exclusion is the fault of the system that undervalues us
You report that chief executives feel they have become a 'socially excluded minority frozen out of policy-making and subject to rigid control from the centre' (News Focus, page 14, 1 October). You have also reported in recent weeks that a teaching hospital has found itself 6m in the red without ...
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Colorectal surgery
Prophylactic antibiotics are increasingly being used to counteract the high risk of hospital-acquired infection in colorectal surgery patients, but there is doubt about the most effective timing, duration and route for their administration. Anne-Marie Gle
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It's safe to come out now
In a break with tradition, there was not a single pot shot at health service managers during the political conference season. Patrick Butler wonders if 'mature' debate is, indeed, the order of the day
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It's safe to come out now
In a break with tradition, there was not a single pot shot at health service managers during the political conference season. Patrick Butler wonders if 'mature' debate is, indeed, the order of the day
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Laugh? I nearly cried: conference comedians
Some thought Ann Widdecombe's line, 'The Conservatives are, and always have been, 100 per cent committed to the values of our health services', was a joke. It wasn't.