MATTHEW LIMB

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The fixer
1998-10-08T00:00:00
The health service commissioner's effectiveness is subject to increasing scrutiny 25 years after the office was created. Matthew Limb looks at its first quarter of a century and the reigns of the six commissioners to date
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Troubleshooters seek 'root and branch' cure for Welsh deficits
1998-08-06T00:00:00
Troubleshooters are being sent in to Cardiff's troubled Morriston Hospital trust to help managers find more than 5m efficiency savings.
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Troubleshooters seek 'root and branch' cure for Welsh deficits
1998-08-06T00:00:00
Troubleshooters are being sent in to Cardiff's troubled Morriston Hospital trust to help managers find more than 5m efficiency savings.
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Ministers claim reform schedule is 'realistic'
1998-07-23T00:00:00
Ministers this week outlined what they called a 'demanding' but 'realistic' timetable for implementing the next stages of their health service reforms.
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Senior managers broke NHS pay rules
1998-07-16T00:00:00
Senior health service managers repeatedly broke NHS pay regulations to award themselves and colleagues thousands of pounds to which they were not entitled, an inquiry has found.
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Board games
1998-07-16T00:00:00
Three managers named in a report alleging financial mismanagement at a health board have left, while the fourth faces a disciplinary hearing. Matthew Limb reports
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Babies die due to 'poor clinical management'
1998-07-09T00:00:00
Babies are dying because of 'poor clinical management' and the failure of some GPs to detect serious illness, an influential study has found.
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Series of scandals leads to 'legal duty of quality' move
1998-04-16T00:00:00
Hospital managers will face legal action if clinical care fails to meet acceptable standards, health minister Alan Milburn announced this week.
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Trust slams HA 'high-risk disruption' and unveils own rescue plan on Net
1998-04-09T00:00:00
A trust which is using the Internet to fight for survival is pinning its hopes on a 'radical' new plan to preserve acute services at three hospitals.
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Supertrust signs up £125k chief executive
1998-04-09T00:00:00
A £430m new 'supertrust' this week recruited what is thought to be the country's highest-paid chief executive. David Johnson, once a hospital porter, will head Leeds Teaching Hospitals trust. The post carries 'a remuneration package' of around £125,000.