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Webster urges setting up NHS commission
The NHS's official historian has called for the creation of an NHS Commission to 'challenge received wisdom' and promote ideas for policy makers.
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heading to come
Tom McCarthy says: 'Community trusts recognise the writing is on the wall. A number have already begun to seek active alliances with GPs to safeguard their organisations. It makes sense because the trusts have the management expertise while GPs have the clinical expertise.'
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...BUT IT'S JUST A CLICHe TO EQUATE COMMITMENT WITH DESIRE FOR CONTROL
Oh no, not again - the tired old cliche about commitment being equivalent to the desired degree of control is trotted out. Andrew Wall treats level 4 as being for the 'ambitious', and levels below for the 'less committed'. He then adds insult to injury by suggesting that fundholding is ...
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Expert tells GPs to recruit high-paid chiefs for PCGs
GPs must recruit high-paid, high-powered chief executives to run primary care groups or watch them founder, a top health policy analyst warned last week.
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Friendly society Does NAFP chair Rhidian Morris's exaltation to fundholders to 'start making these reforms work for you' herald a change of heart towards Labour policy? Mark Crail reports
Fundholders' leader Rhidian Morris last week urged his members to throw off their 'depression' over the abolition of fundholding and 'start making these reforms work for you'.
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Scots doctors divided on centralisation
Scottish doctors' views about whether services should be concentrated into bigger hospitals vary according to the type of hospital they work in and where they are based.
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DISAPPOINTING TO FOCUS ON WHY PRIMARY CARE GROUPS COULD FAIL...
It was with surprise and disappointment that I read Andrew Wall's article on The New NHS white paper ('From paper to practice', pages 28- 29, 19 February).
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...AND GIVE EXISTING PRIMARY CARE MANAGERS MORE CONSIDERATION...
In Andrew Wall's otherwise excellent article, when he discussed who would manage primary care groups, he comments: 'Such managers can presumably be found from redundant HA staff'. Nowhere does he consider existing primary care managers as being part of the new management arrangements.
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CALL FOR HELP FROM OTHERS IN SIMILAR SCHEMES
I am the team co-ordinator for health staff in a joint health and social services mental health resettlement scheme.
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IN BRIEF
A report of an inquiry into allegations that senior managers at Tayside health board made 'irregular and possibly unlawful payments' of more than pounds200,000 has been passed to the Procurator Fiscal and the Crown Office. They are expected to decide within two weeks whether to start legal proceedings against individuals. ...
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The Bottomley Years
As health minister from 1989 to 1992, and then health secretary from 1992 to 1995, Virginia Bottomley's years at the Department of Health saw massive change. Among the highlights were...
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A change of body image
Fundholders' leaders have quite rightly come to the conclusion that the model has run its course (see News Focus, page 15). Contrary to their earlier predictions that this would send GPs into an apathetic sulk, however, it seems they have now decided to see the advent of commissioning as an ...
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Clarity begins at home
Presenting health service information in the language ordinary people speak and listening to public feedback will do much to improve communication, says Hilary Spiers reports
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Has Labour been caught red-handed?
According to the Conservative Party trust board appointments show evidence of 'Labour gerrymandering'.
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CHCS HAVE BEEN SURVEYING PATIENTS FOR YEARS
I read with interest Shirley McIver and Philip Meredith's article on the white paper ('There for the asking', pages 26-27, 19 February) as it raised the issue of how difficult it is to get meaningful data from the general public.
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Calling a bed a bed
When patients, carers and the secretary of state all plead for plain English why does the NHS insist on incomprehensible