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It's not a letter of credit
At a stroke, health secretary Frank Dobson has removed the right of trusts to determine the pay and rations of their top teams.
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'Confusion' follows Dobson directive to redesign planned psychiatric unit
Mental health campaigners accused the government last week of creating policy confusion in a row over mixed-sex wards.
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Primary concerns
Academics are warning that the shift to primary care groups is fraught with dangers. Mark Crail reports
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Trust in the community
Management support is crucial to the success of primary care groups. Heather Sim suggests how to bring everyone on board
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Senior medics vote 'no confidence' in trust chief
Senior medical staff have passed a vote of no confidence in a trust chief executive.
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Check-up time
Despite renewed government emphasis on effectiveness, trusts vary enormously in their commitment to clinical audit. Rowena Barnes and Karen Hansed explain
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In Brief: Government's new information technology strategy
The launch of the government's new information technology strategy for the NHS has been delayed again while health ministers examine its financial implications. Publication is now tentatively scheduled for July, an NHS Executive spokesperson said this week.
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In Brief: Health expert Chris Ham
Health authorities should be obliged to explain clinical decisions, and the NHS should have a system of appeal tribunals for patients refused treatment, health expert Chris Ham argues in a book, published by the King's Fund, looking at the lessons of the Jaymee Bowen case.
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In Brief: Research by Pay & Workforce Research
Time lost in sickness absence cost the NHS more than £500m in 199798, research by Pay & Workforce Research shows. Revealing the data last week, PWR consultant Gillian Whitaker urged managers to use return-to-work interviews to identify the causes of absence.
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In Brief: Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
The government should set a national target to reduce work-related illness and injury, the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy says in its response to the public health green paper, Our Healthier Nation . The CSP recommends reducing the number of days' work lost due to sickness absence by one tenth by ...
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Bradford Royal Infirmary's new clinical skills teaching laboratory
Medical student David Swann gets intimate with a retinopathy head at Bradford Royal Infirmary's new clinical skills teaching laboratory.
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Single inspection body for homes
Plans to create a new separate inspection body for nursing and residential homes have been welcomed throughout the NHS.
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Royal blues
A powerful political and medical alliance is calling for a halt to the £200m Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh PFI deal. Barbara Millar reports
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In Brief: Royal National Institute for the Blind survey results
Blind and partially sighted people over 60 face 'isolation, poverty and loneliness' on a daily basis, according to a UK-wide survey of 500 people by the Royal National Institute for the Blind. More than one in five never had a visit from social services yet many of the daily hurdles ...