Claire Laurent
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Adolescent services: smells like teen spirit
The teenage years are not the easiest: testing boundaries, asserting your independence and taking risks - and this age group often falls between child and adult healthcare. Claire Laurent reports on moves to target services for young people's needs
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Cancer strategy: earlier, faster, shorter - and more data
Last week the government promised a further £370m to reform cancer, with a focus on prevention and shorter hospital stays. But selective fast-tracking plans have drawn criticism. Claire Laurent reports
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Too hot to handle?
WARD MANAGERS: People who manage wards feel their accountability is being increased while their control of resources is being diminished. Claire Laurent reports
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Scene setting
TRAINING: The NHS is working with educational institutes to recruit the people who will eventually provide it with much-needed skills, reports Claire Laurent
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Keeping mum
CHILDCARE: For many parents, work is only possible once childcare has been resolved. So the NHS is wise to invest in more nursery places, says Claire Laurent
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Independence way
Intermediate care has been redefined and given a new emphasis - as well as new money. But the model being introduced has had little evaluation and may produce no added benefits to patients, says Claire Laurent
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'Resign or be sacked' was 'choice' for chair
Health secretary Alan Milburn was told of the departure of the former chair of Stoke Mandeville Hospital trust earlier this month before she had submitted her resignation over breaches of the 18-month waiting-list guarantee.
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Four step down over breacches of hospital trust wait guarantee
Attempts to conceal breaches of the 18-month waiting-list guarantee at Stoke Mandeville Hospital trust led to the resignation of the chair and three non-executive directors last week.
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That'll teach them
The amount of time and money dedicated to training staff can vary as much as five times between trusts. Claire Laurent looks at the many factors behind the variations
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Clinical depression
An unpublished action plan seen by HSJmakes wide-ranging criticisms of Oxford Radcliffe Hospital trust's accident and emergency services. Claire Laurent wonders if the plan will do anything to stop the haemorrhaging of staff
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Directory inquiry
Patients'views are now supposed to be central to the NHS.So why have they had no input into the health service's new guide? Claire Laurent reports
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In fine voice
A new report is claiming success with its methodology of using mental health service users as interviewers as well as interviewees. Claire Laurent reports
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Means to an end
Abortions are easy to obtain - but there are wide regional variations in who gets access to NHS-funded services, reports Claire Laurent
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'I can see you now'
Government-funded online centres are providing new treatment opportunities for those with mental health problems. Claire Laurent reports
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The killing fields
Shocking levels of suicides among farmers are pointing to a gap in rural mental health services. Claire Laurent reports on possible remedies
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Finding their feet
Shaky beginnings maybe, but the Sure Start scheme is a sure-fire success with local people. Claire Laurent reports
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Back to basics
As PCGs become PCTs, lay members are demanding higher pay. Without it, they say, the only people we'll see serving on these lynchipins of primary care reform are the 'usual suspects'. Claire Laurent reports