External contributors – Page 327
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Emma Dent on teenage kicks
'Our sex education was adequate although we did not get onto the juicy stuff until, frankly, it was too late for some. I thank the pages of teen mag Just Seventeenfor my best information.'
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Your Humble Servant: Project Stepford
‘You are either in a lot of trouble or are just the sort of twisted mind we need’
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Comment: Hopes for surplus pinned on turnaround in forecasting
It would be a bold stroke to pull off - delivering even a small surplus at the end of this financial year given the situation that NHS acting chief executive Sir Ian Carruthers inherited in March.
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Kieran Walshe on professional regulation
'It will be much easier for NHS organisations to deal effectively and constructively with clinical performance problems'
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David Woodhead on public health
'We were facing our just desert for all the desserts we had just crammed in out faces'
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Emma Dent on summer
I can only bring myself to write about the heat now because it has cooled right down. This time last week I was out and about for most of the day.
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Comment: PCT recruitment cannot afford to pay tribute to the old regime
'To what extent is the success of current primary care trust chief executives in winning the top jobs in the new organisations a verdict on the success of the whole sector?'
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Comment: managing demand without the command
'It is not disagreeing but dissembling that really annoys doctors.'
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Your Humble Servant: public health and wine receptions
‘A fight has broken out between a couple of balding, geeky, thin male strategy directors who are trying to stab each other with Montblanc pens’
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Comment: muddle on primary care pilot delays
'There seems to be a distinct waning of enthusiasm on both sides, with private providers complaining about inflexibility and complexity and primary care trusts feeling financial pressures.'
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Mike Cooke on mental health
'Yes, I am a service user as well as a chief executive. I am in recovery. I have experienced depression, and view this as a strength.'
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Nick Summerton on clinical management
Two years ago, when he was still BMJ editor, Richard Smith asked: 'What is it that doctors offer that other professionals cannot?' 'Diagnosis, diagnosis, diagnosis, ' responded chief medical officer Professor Sir Liam Donaldson.
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Succession in medical management
Succession in medical management is a problem for trusts. Many require a full-time medical director, but few consultants wish to give up clinical practice to take this on.
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Bradford crisis
As many people will testify, for the past four-and-a-half years I have chaired Bradford Teaching Hospitals foundation trust, and the diverse community it serves, with undoubted success.
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Evercare review
I applaud the King's Fund for reviewing the evidence on case management (news, pages 16-17, 2 December 2004), and its recommendations to primary care trusts are sensible.