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Genning up on genetics
In the disruption surrounding the setting up of primary care groups, the cutting of waiting lists and the merging or closing of hospitals, it is easy to ignore what is on, or just over, the horizon. Genomics falls into this category.
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Waiting games
Health secretary Frank Dobson said 'hospital waiting lists have fallen by 45,000 over the past three months'.
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Scant evidence that performance-related pay is a motivator for staff
Performance-related pay and job evaluation
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Heroic effort of NHS in Omagh tragedy
I was glad to see HSJ reported on the tragedy of the Omagh bombing and the heroic efforts of staff at Tyrone County Hospital and other hospitals in Northern Ireland (News, 20 August). The way colleagues in Omagh in particular dealt with the results of this carnage is an example ...
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Poor pay drives staff out of NHS
More than a third of recently qualified health staff expect to leave the NHS in the next three years, says a survey by the staff side of professions allied to medicine.
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Open doors
The public can take guided tours of interesting NHS buildings -both old and new - on heritage open days in September. Barbara Millar explains
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The legacy of free market pay policy must be replaced with something less divisive
No other organisation boasts such a hotch-potch of unco-ordinated salary systems as the NHS. Several secretaries of state must shoulder responsibility. Bevan cobbled together the consultants' remuneration system - which combines moonlighting with a cloak and dagger performance appraisal - so as not to create 'an unfair worsening of a ...
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Dobson sets winter pressures deadline
Health authorities and trusts have been given just four weeks to detail plans for dealing with this year's winter pressures.
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NHS pay group should keep to the principle of simplicity if it wants to gain staff confidence
I refer to the news story 'Pay working group collapses as BMA and RCN withdraw' (page 2, 6 August).
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Complaints procedure criticised
The revised NHS complaints system is making it more difficult for people to complain about general practice, Scottish health councils have warned.
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Cornwall service transfer plans clarified
The plans produced by Cornwall and Isles of Scilly health authority to achieve revenue savings, mainly through the closure of four community hospitals, did not include the transfer of additional elective surgery to St Michael's
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Welsh Office draws up new CHC focus
Community health councils 'lack a clear focus for their activities' and stretch resources 'unproductively', according to a Welsh Office document setting out stark options for change.
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Distinguishing characteristics of two change-management styles
Transforming leadershipTransactional management
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Going through the change
Managers need to be aware that a period of adjustment is an important part of the transition from old commissioning models to primary care groups, say Jane Beenstock and Nicola Walsh
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Manager suspended for bullying
A manager at Royal Edinburgh Hospital has been suspended and an inquiry launched into allegations of intimidation and bullying of nursing staff.
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Broadening the horizons
Health & environmental impact assessment an integrated approach British Medical Association Earthscan 256 pages 14.95
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'Winter pressures' could tip the balance of care
A re-assessment of NHS priorities is necessary to cope this winter
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Back to business
Social entrepreneurship offers to health and social services a public- spirited option in community care contracting. Patrick Butler reports