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Happy families or snap?
Family-friendly working initiatives are widespread in the NHS, but are managers matching policies to what staff really want? John Northrop finds out
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Fast-track management training schemes
We are four management trainees based in North West region. As part of the education component of the scheme (MA, managing healthcare organisations) we are examining graduate fast-track management training schemes. If any
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Together a gain?
The Welsh NHS is about to be reunited with local government. But, asks Patrick Butler, how democratic will things be?
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Red herring
The time has come to overhaul the financing of general practice and abandon the current system of GPs' fees and allowances. Peter Old and colleagues use experience from the Isle of Wight to explain why
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The internal market
Despite a dearth of research on the internal market, John Appleby looks to two economists for their assessment of its effectiveness at reducing prices and costs
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Rising Welsh waiting lists 'unacceptable' says minister
Senior managers have been ordered to take a 'personal lead' in reducing Welsh waiting lists.
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Monitor
As a loyal mouthpiece of the great helmsman, Monitor is always happy to pass on the thoughts of Chairman Frank. So here goes: there have been 'an alarming number of proposals for private hospitals since January', writes our Dobbo - who should know. He is particularly concerned at joint proposals ...
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The financial exchange mechanisms that will replace contracting are still unclear. Eugene Milne suggests a solution
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Playing pool
Health minister Alan Milburn has proposed a pooled insurance scheme for trusts, but some argue it's a risky game. Seamus Ward reports
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3 September 1948
It would be bad for the NHS to escape the attention of critics. In an atmosphere of complacency its will to succeed would be sapped. Constructive criticism should be treated with respect. In an undertaking of such magnitude there are bound to be unsatisfactory features.
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More beef about beef
After E coli in Lanarkshire, the next Pennington inquiry will examine a typhoid outbreak that turned Aberdeen into a beleaguered city - 34 years ago.
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New cash to treat drug abuse
Health and local authorities are to be allocated an extra 70.5m to provide new treatment services for drug misusers and young people at risk.
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Hospital slates decision to delay using paediatric ward left empty after revamp
Health authorities are being asked to pay for a paediatric neurosurgery ward that has been standing empty for six months and may now never open.
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The ways ahead
Developments in British social policy Edited by Nick Ellison and Chris Pierson Macmillan 323 pages 14.50