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Take your partners
The white paper emphasises collaboration and puts forward a range of proposals. But is there a
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The woman WHO's taking over
The election of Gro Harlem Brundtland as director-general of the World Health Organisation will provide it with a new lease of life and open doors to world leaders.
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PROBLEMS NEED SOLVING
Further to Lee Whitehead's response (Letters, 15 January) to Michael Howlett (Letters, 27 November), I endorse the view that the 'care continuum' of supported housing should be available in every locality. I also suggest that today's solution is tomorrow's problem: once the housing needs of people suffering mental ill health ...
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Monitor
It's all very embarrassing when you give someone the boot and are then forced to give them their job back. Which must explain why South Thames regional office has insisted on saying that Lady Helen Gardiner has had her appointment as chair of Surrey Ambulance trust 'extended'. 'It's an extension ...
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MERGING MANAGEMENT WOULD REDUCE WASTE
As another ex-nurse, I write in response to N Brown's letter (22 January) about the amount of money spent on chief executives.
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Key Points
The white paper proposals for partnerships in the NHS of the future are much less developed than those for performance.
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Key Points
The white paper proposal to fund primary care groups according to a set formula is beset with difficulties.
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Lord Justice Phillips
Lord Justice Phillips, chair of the government's BSE inquiry, opens its preliminary session in London last week. He said former ministers, civil servants and animal feed manufacturers would be questioned about the spread of 'mad cow disease', but the 'primary object of the inquiry is not to attribute blame but ...
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Whooping for joy
The expected four-yearly outbreak of whooping cough failed to materialise for the first time in 1994, after medical researchers succeeded in dispelling fears that immunisation against the illness caused brain damage.
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For what it's worth
The NHS is a strongly redistributive social benefit 'worth' up to pounds1,900 a year in post-tax income to the poorest one-fifth of households. Government economists calculate that households in the top 20 per cent income group, by contrast, benefit to an estimated value of pounds1,330. The average value of the ...
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Whistleblower policy hailed as NHS 'model'
A 'whistleblowing' policy which guarantees the right of trust staff to go public with their concerns has been commended as a 'model' for the rest of the NHS.
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Green Park Healthcare trust
Green Park Healthcare trust chief executive Hilary Boyd (right) watches as staff nurse Wendy Shannon monitors a hip-replacement patient. Ms Shannon has been taking part in a trust training scheme for junior managers which involves a four-week secondment to another department. She shadowed the chief executive and in return Ms ...
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Ministers give go-ahead to UK's largest teaching trust
Ministers have given the go-ahead to create the UK's biggest teaching hospital trust, ending a two-year on-off merger saga.
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Milburn orders re-think on Gateshead proposals
Health minister Alan Milburn has asked two trusts to re-examine merger proposals in the light of the government's white paper.
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More gain, more pain
We may be living longer, but our extra years are marked by disability or long-term illness. Mark Crail reports on some surprising findings in the latest government statistics
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PERFORMANCE FRAME WORK
WHAT MECHANISMS SHOULD REPLACE 'FINANCIAL COMPETITION' AS THE SPUR TO IMPROVING POOR PERFORMANCE? JOHN APPLEBY REPORTS ON THE NEW FRAMEWORK
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How Dowager Ginny gave poor Frank a headache BY MICHAEL WHITE
Quite the liveliest health question time of the year (actually it was the first) the other day. Fearless Frank tore into the BBC for misreporting a '65-hours on a ward-trolley' atrocity in Surrey. Everyone said 'Happy 40th birthday' to Minister Milburn, and Paul Boateng got rapped on the knuckles by ...