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IHSM is not the strong body managers need
Jamie Sharpley is right (Letters, 27 August), NHS managers deserve a strong body which pretty well every manager belongs to. Sadly, the Institute of Health Services Management is not that body.
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HA brings in 'bouncers'
A health authority has angered residents by hiring a professional security firm to steward public meetings on hospital reconfiguration plans.
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Campaigners welcome review of continence services policy
Campaigners have welcomed a government decision, announced last week by junior health minister Paul Boateng, to set up a review of continence services.
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Charter will give staff right to exclude violent patients
Embattled staff at St Bartholomew's and the Royal London Hospital will be given powers to turn away violent or abusive patients under a new charter to be introduced next month.
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A summary of evidence of internal market effects on hospital prices and costs
Were GP fundholder prices consistent?
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Great dictators
Leadership is a vastly overrated quality, especially in managers, argues Steve Ainsworth
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Good staff training is essential when restraint of those with a learning disability is necessary
The use of physical interventions, or restraint, to manage challenging behaviours presented by adults and children with a learning disability, is a matter of considerable concern to professionals, care staff, family members and those responsible for implementing government policy.
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Early learning
With new figures confirming Scotland's high rates of teenage pregnancy, Barbara Millar reports on initiatives to address the issue and provide sex education earlier
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Survey finds failure in NHS equality practice
Many trusts are failing to put their own equal opportunities policies into practice, a comprehensive survey for the NHS Executive has suggested.
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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