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Monitoring quality and clinical performance Whistleblowers must make approach to regulatory bodies themselves
You reported my recent appearance before the House of Commons public administration committee (News Focus, page 12-13, 16 July). It must have been in a parallel universe: the meeting I attended was very different.
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'It was the wrong time for beautiful architecture'
Completed in 1970, Northwick Park Hospital (above) was too late to be included in English Heritage's listing proposals, but it may be singled out next time. If so, it is bound to cause consternation. For the building is universally regarded as an ugly concrete sprawl, even though it has proved ...
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Police, not hospitals, should press charges in cases of attacks on staff
You report the Lord Chancellor's recommendation that magistrates should impose appropriately tough sentences on people found guilty of attacking health workers (News, page 6, 25 June).
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Audit Commission considers quality and patient's view as well as efficiency
Kieran Walshe's thought-provoking piece on the NHS Executive consultation paper on quality (Open Space, pages 18-19, 9 July) states that 'the establishment of the Commission for Health Improvement can also be seen as an implicit criticism of the Audit Commission for failing to tackle issues of clinical performance and sticking ...
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Audit Commission denies 'inside track' deal
The Audit Commission has been left red-faced by the recent 'cash- for access' row after it emerged it had hired controversial parliamentary lobbyists Lawson Lucas Mendelsohn to provide a 'public affairs' service.
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Purchasers and providers in battle for 'unified' Confederation chair
Senior figures from both sides of the health service's purchaser- provider divide are set to contest next month's election to appoint
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Blair seeks to calm unions' pay fears
Prime minister Tony Blair last week moved to pacify health service unions angry that the independence of the pay review bodies had been undermined by new terms of reference set out in the comprehensive spending review.
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White men skew boards
NHS boards in Greater London are top heavy with white, middle-aged men, says a survey by the Greater London Association of Community Health Councils.
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GPs in minority on new Welsh local health group boards
GPs will be in a minority on local health group boards, Welsh health minister Win Griffiths has told the British Medical Association.
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A breach too far?
Plans to merge two trusts may have to be recalled from the health secretary's office this week and rethought - because the Department of Health appears to be unable to decide on the legal rules covering trust finances.
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Lighthouse wins fight for building
The London Lighthouse charity for people with HIV and AIDS has won its battle to stay in its purpose-built premises in Notting Hill, west London. But its residential services will close at the end of September.
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Complementary care is rising in the health service on a tide of half truths
It appears from your News Focus on 'integrated health care' (page 16, 4 June) that this term is being advanced to cover a concoction of orthodox and complementary medicine.
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Ministers double cash in sop to mental health policy critics
Ministers moved to head off further criticism of their controversial policy of ending care in the community this week by doubling the money on offer to create alternative services.
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Doctors are fatter cats
Top doctors are earning more than chief executives in more than one-third of trusts, according to a survey of annual accounts.
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Price of new doctors may be change in role
Doctors may be forced to cede professional ground to nurses and other groups of staff as part of the price of a 20 per cent expansion in medical student numbers, the government has hinted.
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HA chief executives will be given tough powers to ensure PCGs keep in line
Health authority chief executives are to have tough powers to hold primary care groups to account, according to draft guidance seen by HSJ.
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Local commitment with a global vision
Having been a GP, an NHS manager, and a chair of social services, Liberal Democrat MP Jenny Tonge has a rare perspective across the rugged landscape of health and social care.
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Shutting of community hospitals set to be referred on to Dobson
Plans to close two community hospitals in Oxfordshire will almost certainly end up on health secretary Frank Dobson's desk.
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Concrete issues
Gems or carbuncles? In the second of three articles, Ann Dix reports on the rise and fall of some of the pioneering hospital buildings of the 1960s and 1970s