All NHS Confederation articles – Page 41
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In brief: NHS Confederation
The NHS Confederation has appointed Melissa Robinson as London relations manager, to develop links with the mayor and Greater London Assembly. She joins from GJW Government Relations, a political consultancy. She previously worked for the Labour Party press office, the Fabian Society, and the then shadow chancellor Gordon Brown.
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Confederation should be less 'Anglo-centric'
Devolution has prompted the NHS Confederation to consider developing a separate Scottish organisation.
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Confederation launches policy advice committees
The NHS Confederation has launched eight policy advisory committees and networks to address issues raised during a survey of members last year. It has also identified 'top influencing priorities' to 'focus its efforts where it can effect the most change', particularly in the run-up to the next general election. Its ...
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Vote signals unity for Confederation
The NHS Confederation this week promised a year of real delivery and increasingly assertive political influence as it voted in a new unified constitution.
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Wipe-out: what managers told the NHS Confederation
'There will be very little cash around, and any pay award that was unfunded, even to a proportion of last year's unfunded level, would wipe us out.' HA chief executive
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Confederation's subs go up to prevent 'ruin'
The NHS Confederation is planning a big hike in membership rates at the end of a year in which its chief executive admits it faced 'potential financial ruin'.
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Confederation falls out with Blair on pay
NHS employers clashed with prime minister Tony Blair over pay this week in the run-up to tomorrow's deadline for evidence to the pay review bodies.
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New chair takes the driving seat NHS Confederation should become a driving influence on policy
The election of Catherine McLoughlin as chair of the NHS Confederation this week represents a partial break with the past (See News, pages 2- 3). Though she has been co-chair since the organisation's inception, she has none of the political baggage which made her rival and former co-chair, Marco Cereste, ...
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North Thames CHCs suffered snubs and discourtesy at the hands of the NHS Confederation
In 1997 the NHS Confederation published a consultation paper called Towards the 21st Century: a way forward for the NHS. It was considered in some detail by the 28 community health councils in North Thames. The representatives supported the general thrust of the document and most of its proposals. They ...
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North Thames CHCs suffered snubs and discourtesy at the hands of the NHS Confederation
In 1997 the NHS Confederation published a consultation paper called Towards the 21st Century: a way forward for the NHS. It was considered in some detail by the 28 community health councils in North Thames. The representatives supported the general thrust of the document and most of its proposals. They ...
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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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NHS Confederation and IHSM should look at their own democratic legitimacy before criticising CHCs
I read with interest your story about the report on the future of community health councils (News, page 7, 2 July). It was indeed refreshing to be lectured on openness and accountability by the NHS Confederation and the Institute of Health Services Management.
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Confederation top team quits en bloc to leave Thornton alone at the helm
NHS Confederation chief executive Stephen Thornton appeared to be isolated at the head of the organisation this week after it emerged that the entire top management team he inherited just six months ago is quitting.
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NHS Confederation calls for year 2000 help
Information managers told MPs last week they needed more central support to tackle the year 2000 problem and warned them the process had to be speeded up.