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THE PERSUADERS
Name: Elizabeth Manero Job: Chair, London Health Link - the umbrella body for the capital's community health councils.
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Here's looking at you, kid
The NHS should welcome local authority scrutiny committees monitoring its services. Only politics and ignorance are preventing it from doing so, says Paul Corrigan
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Who wants to know?
Do primary care groups and trusts have the resources and opportunities to commission research? And if they do, should they, asks Bonnie Sibbald
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Financial gaps in frameworks could knock NHS plan for six
Major financial gaps in agreements between trusts and health authorities across England threaten to hamper the delivery of services promised in the NHS plan.
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Nurses involved in Lakeland abuse scandal may have to face courts
Nurses involved in the abuse scandal at North Lakeland Healthcare trust in Cumbria could face prosecution.
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Wales to scrap HAs as Assembly gears up for control over health
Health authorities are to be swept away in Wales in a controversial measure that overshadowed the launch of the Welsh NHS plan last week and saw Unison predicting 400 job losses within two years.
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Salary-rise average at odds with cappingcall
Trust chief executives saw basic salaries rise by an average of 6 per cent last year to £78,000-a-year despite calls by health secretary Alan Milburn for a 3. 2 per cent cap on management pay.
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In brief
Health minister John Denham has announced the fifth wave of topics to be considered for referral to the National Institute for Clinical Excellence. The eight treatments to be appraised include 'clot-busting'drugs for heart attack victims, which could help meet targets in the national service framework for coronary heart disease to ...
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50 per cent cash help for trusts' in Alder Hey burial cost fallout
Trusts have been ordered to prepare a business case for financial help towards the burial or cremation of tens of thousands of organs retained without proper consent, in the fallout from the Alder Hey scandal. Only trusts which have 500 or more specimens will get help of up to 50 ...