All articles by Ann McGauran – Page 2

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    Nothing to write home about

    2002-07-25T00:00:00Z

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    Doctoring the usual roles

    2002-07-18T00:00:00Z

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    Home time

    2002-06-07T00:00:00Z

    news focus: Is it possible for senior managers to implement the Improving Working Lives agenda and leave their desks at a reasonable hour? Ann McGauran reports

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    Keep taking the tablets

    2002-04-11T00:00:00Z

    news focus: Has the NHS Confederation conference done anything to mend the relationship between the NHS and the pharmaceutical industry, asks Ann McGauran

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    Still crazy after all these years

    2002-03-21T00:00:00Z

    It is five years since the King's Fund inquiry into mental health services in London, and researchers are taking another look. Ann McGauran reports

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    The slow burn

    2002-03-14T00:00:00Z

    news focus It is 40 years since Richard Doll's landmark report on smoking and health.How much longer before the government bans tobacco advertising, asks Ann McGauran

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    Curtain call

    2002-02-21T00:00:00Z

    A team of managers is being recruited to sort out the problems in NHS operating theatres.Who will audition for the roles, and what will be expected of them, asks Ann McGauran

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    Breakfast with frost?

    2002-02-07T00:00:00Z

    The new NHS Confederation leader Gill Morgan is confident of winning friends and influencing people, but will she 'have the balls to slag off Milburn on the Today programme'? Ann McGauran met her

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    Largeing it

    2002-01-31T00:00:00Z

    news focus - Around 8 million adults in the UK are classified as obese.Of particular concern is the rising incidence in children.Now, the National Audit Office is stepping in. Ann McGauran reports

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    A special gift

    2002-01-17T00:00:00Z

    News Focus Sue Sutherland's single-mindedness has raised the profile of organ donation. Ann McGauran met her

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    Way to go

    2001-12-13T00:00:00Z

    After the fanfare of the national cancer plan, progress towards meeting the standards set by other western European countries has been less than impressive, says Ann McGauran

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    What lies within?

    2001-11-15T00:00:00Z

    NEWS FOCUS: The Bristol inquiry report threw a disturbing light on the secretive, powerful world of the royal colleges.Can they deliver the reform that the medical establishment so clearly needs? Ann McGauran reports

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    On the up

    2001-09-27T00:00:00Z

    STANDARDS AND REGULATION: With safety regulation looming, what is the independent healthcare sector doing to prepare for heightened scrutiny? Ann McGauran finds out

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    Down in the dumps

    2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

    NEWS FOCUS: Though debate was cut short at the TUC in Brighton, unions are determined to take a hard line on the rights of NHS staff transferred under public-private partnerships.But Ann McGauran wonders whether the shouting match is obscuring the real is

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    A shotgun marriage

    2001-09-06T00:00:00Z

    NEWS FOCUS: What is stopping trusts from reaching long-term agreements with private healthcare providers? Information about the concordat is difficult to come by, so Ann McGauran took a closer look

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    Assault discourse

    2001-07-05T00:00:00Z

    VIOLENCE: Increasing numbers of patients vent their feelings in violent attacks on NHS staff. Action is being taken to tackle the problem but, as Ann McGauran reports, success seems a long way off

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    By any means necessary

    2001-07-05T00:00:00Z

    NEWS FOCUS: The NHS's compensation bill has to be cut - but how? A tariff system could be a solution, but would it work, asks Ann McGauran

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    The people's debate

    2001-06-28T00:00:00Z

    NEWS FOCUS: If the NHS can't retain its staff, all the reforms in the world will not solve its problems. Ann McGauran reports

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    Cry freedom

    2001-06-28T00:00:00Z

    NEWS FOCUS: Micro-management of the NHS will continue at the government's peril, reports Ann McGauran