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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.
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Select committee to probe NHS staffing
With increasing clamour for the government to improve pay for nurses and tackle chronic recruitment problems, the Common' s health committee' s decision to investigate NHS staff requirements is timely.
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New voice promises constructive criticism
After years as a backroom fixer, one could forgive Tim Clement- Jones, the Liberal Democrat's new health spokesman in the Lords, if he was eager to make his mark with a thrusting, attention-grabbing attack on government health policy.
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Happy couples
The government's Partnership in Action green paper spells out closer joint working arrangements between health and social services, including joint budgets. Lynn Eaton finds out how the prospective partners are shaping up
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Tale of two views: were we at the same event?
Reading your report on the second annual forum of trust and health authority chief executives, I wonder: was I a guest at the same event?
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The NHS Executive
The NHS Executive has pulled back from compelling health authorities and trusts to sign a public assurance that all their clinical and non- clinical risks are assessed and properly managed by the year 2000.
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Key management role for those in the first line
Jaki Meekings' doubts about the level of management skill available in primary care (Letters, 8 October) are seriously misplaced. Are health authorities consistently successful in managing - or more correctly - in controlling NHS budgets?
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Social policy 'must focus on inequalities'
The chair of the government's inquiry into inequalities in health has called for 'health inequality impact assessments' to be applied to all areas of social policy.
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The patients' guide - to reinventing the wheel
I was pleased to read Ian Wylie's review of The NHS Home Healthcare Guide (Books, page 35, 17 September).
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Poor health
Some of 'the best health data in the world' has been pulled together, for the first time, in a report clearly showing the link between material deprivation and ill health in Scotland. It reveals that deprived Scots experience greater mental health problems and have a higher incidence of coronary heart ...
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Hillingdon strikers win reinstatement
A three-year dispute at Hillingdon Hospital has ended with an industrial tribunal ruling that 25 Asian domestic and catering staff, sacked for refusing to take cuts in pay and conditions, should be reinstated and paid compensation totalling almost 300,000.
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Hitting an upbeat note
While a number of those attending the chief executives' forum would recognise the somewhat bleak mood described, I suspect others would not.
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Working together to support mentally ill people at risk
Chris Heginbotham, chief executive of East and North Hertfordshire health authority admits that a joint mental health risk team was set up on the suggestion of Hertfordshire social services director Ian White. Both were concerned about patients with a history of mental illness who were living in the community and ...
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Kidney moans
Treatment for renal failure is missing its clinical targets. Mark Crail reports on new data