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Welsh secretary Ron Davies has issued a consultation paper asking for views on priorities for public spending in Wales. It acknowledges NHS Wales' 24bn budget - a third of the Welsh Office total - is 'under substantial pressure' but points out that 'any additions to one (area of spending) will ...
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Social science
The economics of social spending 2nd edition Edited by Howard Glennerster and John Hills Oxford University Press 363 pages 40
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Qualified support
The NHS human resources strategy was broadly welcomed at the HR managers' conference last week. But funding, coercion from the centre and consistency of standards were some of the concerns. Barbara Millar and Mark Crail report
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Phoney wars
When GPs were told they could no longer claim payment for giving telephone advice, they were up in arms. But Steve Ainsworth says they should never have been claiming in the first place
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Monitor
Does Monitor detect a split in the Tory front bench health team? Why, only last week, Alan Duncan turned down a much-coveted opportunity to contribute to HSJ's On the Record column on the grounds that such things were 'too trivial'. And then, before you know it, up pops Ann Widdecombe ...
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LIZ in a tizz
Set up to close the primary care service gap between London and the rest of the country, the LIZ programme has achieved little beyond improved premises. And, say Richard Lewis and Susan Williams, the capital's underperformance still needs urgent attention
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Take it up with the kipper
It's easy to make jokes about managerial incompetence - and note how most management jokes are derogatory.1 'Mushroom management' became an NHS cliche in the 1980s, with managers claiming they were kept in the dark. Now there are seagulls and kippers. The former fly in, dump all over the workers ...
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Joys of the single life
Nearly half the general practices in London consist of one doctor. Jeremy Davies spoke to a selection about their reasons for going solo.
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Mental health groups
Mental health groups have moved to distance themselves from junior health minister Paul Boateng's announcement that a review of the Mental Health Act will mean forced medical treatment in the community.
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Joint winter funding is 'lopsided' - Thornton
Inter-agency partnerships to tackle winter pressures will be 'lopsided' unless the government plans a long-term cash injection for social services, NHS Confederation chief executive Stephen Thornton warned last week.
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An extra 1bn will to be added to NHS information technology budgets over the next seven years to fund the IM&T strategy published last week.
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Danger of postcode rationing versus men without stress who smoke less
The debate about the availability of Viagra on the NHS have implications much wider than the treatment of impotence alone. Health secretary Frank Dobson should be congratulated on taking the politically risky step of offering a central policy decision on what the NHS can be expected, or is capable of ...
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Penetrating the corridors of power
NHS chief executives should play dirty and learn political advocacy so that they could manage upwards as well as downwards, said Labour peer Baroness Young, chair of English Nature and former IHSM president.
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Many staff dance on head of a pin when it comes to their own safety
After reading your item on needlestick injuries (page 4, 20 August), I wanted to let you know what we are doing at King's Healthcare trust.
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It's cold outside
The second annual forum of trust and health authority chief executives found them voicing bitter complaints about New Labour's command and control style. Peter Davies and Pat Healy were there
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In a class of their own
The Liberal Democrats took a leaf out of education policy with calls for a health National Curriculum. Patrick Butler listened to heated debates on rationing