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Going first class with the NHS
When The New NHS white paper was published six months ago, its focus on quality surprised many people. But while it made all the right noises, it also skilfully left much unsaid. The specifics would, we were told, be set out in a consultation paper.
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First thoughts on A First Class Service
Senior figures in healthcare were quick to respond to health secretary Frank Dobson's proposals on quality.
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Point your career in the right direction
Thinking of becoming an academic? Then this is the holiday reading for you. It tells you everything you need to know about academic careers, including the vital components of networking, teaching, researching and writing. What's that you say? You are already an academic. Hmmm, perhaps it might be better if ...
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Professor predicts that patients will be given control of their care
The NHS of 2023 will be totally patient-focused and have no long waiting times and much waste, the conference was told.
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Flight of the charge brigade
NHS chief executive Sir Alan Langlands has given the clearest signal yet that the comprehensive spending review led by the Treasury, which is due out next week, will rule out charging at the point of access for any NHS services.
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in brief
A small number of trusts have decided to give board-level directors no pay rise so that less senior managers can enjoy increases above the 2.7 per cent limit set by the Department of Health. A Pay and Workforce Research survey found three out of 50 trusts interpreting the pay ceiling ...
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Blair's speech: what the conference thought
Karen Caines, director, Institute of Health Services Management
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Three-year finance deal pledge by Blair
The health service is to get a three-year financial settlement which will 'offer sustainable year-on-year increases for the foreseeable future', prime minister Tony Blair promised last week's NHS management conference.
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Birthday greetings to the one they love
Well, what a week. Hardly a dry eye in sight by the time the Great and Good emerged from Westminster Abbey after the service to celebrate 50 years of the NHS. 'I felt very proud just to be there,' one health minister told me, grateful to be in the right ...
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Total purchasing study predicts PCGs won't cut management bill
The introduction of primary care groups is unlikely to reduce NHS management costs in their first few years, a King's Fund report has suggested.
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Warwickshire - one of the biggest rows
Warwickshire has seen one of the biggest rows over the establishment of primary care groups.
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Beacons of excellence to encourage others
Trusts and GP practices will be invited to become 'beacons of excellence' and receive extra money to help others improve their performance, Mr Blair told the conference.
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BMA drops PCG ballot threat but demands stop to PFI
A last-ditch attempt by GP hardliners to scuttle the government's NHS reforms was overwhelmingly rejected by the British Medical Association's 'annual parliament' this week.
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Babies die due to 'poor clinical management'
Babies are dying because of 'poor clinical management' and the failure of some GPs to detect serious illness, an influential study has found.
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Local authority chiefs take less from the kitty
I am wholly in favour of top managers in the public services being properly paid, but 'Fair shares of the kitty' (cover feature, pages 24- 27, 25 June), in examining NHS pay levels, claimed that local authorities 'pay their chief executives as generously, if not more generously, than NHS chief ...
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Art of medicine
Art of medicine: consultant gynaecologist Sarah Gull contributes to West Suffolk Hospital's summer exhibition, as theatre manager Nicola Sharpe looks on. Ms Gull came up with the idea for the show, which features work by theatre staff.
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NHS chiefs told to answer back
Chief of health authorities and trusts were urged in a health service circular to respond to the quality consultation document A First Class Service. The main elements are:
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Redbridge and Waltham Forest - from one model to another
This area shows the problems of trying to move from one commissioning model to another.
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South and West Devon - an amicable process
This is one of the areas where the process of establishing primary care groups has been amicable.
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Alzheimer's campaign challenges drug claims
The Alzheimer's Disease Society has challenged researchers' claims that new drug therapies could effectively pay for themselves by keeping patients out of institutional care.