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Joys of the single life
Nearly half the general practices in London consist of one doctor. Jeremy Davies spoke to a selection about their reasons for going solo.
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Take it up with the kipper
It's easy to make jokes about managerial incompetence - and note how most management jokes are derogatory.1 'Mushroom management' became an NHS cliche in the 1980s, with managers claiming they were kept in the dark. Now there are seagulls and kippers. The former fly in, dump all over the workers ...
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LIZ in a tizz
Set up to close the primary care service gap between London and the rest of the country, the LIZ programme has achieved little beyond improved premises. And, say Richard Lewis and Susan Williams, the capital's underperformance still needs urgent attention
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Monitor
Does Monitor detect a split in the Tory front bench health team? Why, only last week, Alan Duncan turned down a much-coveted opportunity to contribute to HSJ's On the Record column on the grounds that such things were 'too trivial'. And then, before you know it, up pops Ann Widdecombe ...
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Phoney wars
When GPs were told they could no longer claim payment for giving telephone advice, they were up in arms. But Steve Ainsworth says they should never have been claiming in the first place
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Qualified support
The NHS human resources strategy was broadly welcomed at the HR managers' conference last week. But funding, coercion from the centre and consistency of standards were some of the concerns. Barbara Millar and Mark Crail report
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Social science
The economics of social spending 2nd edition Edited by Howard Glennerster and John Hills Oxford University Press 363 pages 40
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Shortcuts
Welsh secretary Ron Davies has issued a consultation paper asking for views on priorities for public spending in Wales. It acknowledges NHS Wales' 24bn budget - a third of the Welsh Office total - is 'under substantial pressure' but points out that 'any additions to one (area of spending) will ...
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IHSM members need to know the truth about its troubled finances
Recent correspondence on the subject of the Institute of Health Services Management has prompted me to go back over this summer's reporting of news from the institute in HSJ, now the institute's only source of regular media profile.
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Emergency ambulance services still poor, says Audit Commission
Ambulance trusts which hit national targets are still offering a 'persistently poor' service to some people, says an Audit Commission study published today.
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Welsh trust consultation closes in face of local anger
Public consultation on plans to halve the number of trusts in Wales has closed with a whistle-stop tour of areas opposed to the changes by Welsh health minister Jon Owen Jones.
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Annual 'waves' of 'five or six' PFI projects set to get go-ahead
NHS finance director Colin Reeves has predicted that 'five or six' large private finance initiative projects are likely to be given the go- ahead each year.
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Capital's health 'needs pan-London approach'
The most comprehensive review ever attempted of public health in London has revealed stark variations in health and service provision between health authorities.
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No beauty in the eyes of Northwick's users
John Weeks (Letters, 10 September) does indeed have a subjective view of Northwick Park Hospital. He seems to confuse good functional design with attraction.
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'We must get stronger at becoming facilitators of change'
Helen Munro jokes that she first learnt negotiating skills in 1976 when she was doing voluntary work in Nigeria for a medical missionary organisation and a would-be suitor attempted to exchange her for a herd of cattle and some sheep.
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The Big Grapple
It may be the world's richest city, but its huge homeless population lacks basic healthcare, and health workers struggle to cope with drug misuse, psychiatric illness, disease and an unforgiving political culture. Kate Adams reports on living and dying in
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To boldly go...
Are the World Health Organisation's 21 Health For All European targets a Utopian dream for the 21st century? Wendy Moore talks to those who dare to believe they can be achieved