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    Women's federation opposes sub-consultant grade

    2000-10-12T00:00:00Z

    The Medical Women's Federation has 'strongly rejected' NHS plan proposals to introduce a sub-consultant grade. It says implementation of the 'proposed employment bondage would seriously damage the national recruitment drive', and warns that 'women doctors know from bitter experience who will fill such posts'. It also suggests that contract changes ...

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    Dentists receive first wave of payments for loyalty

    2000-10-12T00:00:00Z

    The first payments to reward dentists working in the General Dental Service 'for their commitment to the NHS' will be made this week. The scheme gives additional monies to dentists aged 35 and over who have worked at least five years in the last decade and received gross earnings of ...

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    Union challenge to halted holiday leave

    2000-10-12T00:00:00Z

    Unions are challenging a deal made by Lanarkshire Acute trust in Scotland which will see holiday leave stopped for three months during the move to two private finance initiative sites.

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    £6. 3m deficit-trust's board 'was warned'of cash crisis

    2000-10-12T00:00:00Z

    A leaked report into England's highest trust deficit has concluded that danger signals pointing to the trust's impending financial crisis were 'not hidden'from its management board.

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    Council declares no confidence in bitter saga over A&E closure

    2000-10-12T00:00:00Z

    A district council has called for the resignation of senior NHS managers and intervention by a government hit squad after the closure of Kidderminster General Hospital's accident and emergency unit.

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    Staff illiteracy is a threat to lives

    2000-10-12T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    Give the customer a choice

    2000-10-12T00:00:00Z

    We are all in favour of user involvement.

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    WEB WATCH

    2000-10-12T00:00:00Z

    Prepare to be deluged with formulaic and yet terribly well organised campaigns. This month's good cause is breast cancer, November's will be bowel cancer. And who could take exception to campaigns for more and better services?

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    Clean break

    2000-10-12T00:00:00Z

    Regulating the health profession requires tact. But the new Council has to go to the heart of the matter, says Celia Davies

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    Foolish gamble would signal decline of NHS

    2000-10-05T00:00:00Z

    Shadow chancellor Michael Portillo confirmed this week - if any confirmation were needed - that the NHS will play a pivotal role in the next election campaign. The Conservatives would top Labour's unprecedented health spending bonanza, he pledged. Clearly healthcare's propaganda value is now at an all-time premium. But the ...

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    Concordat loses its voice

    2000-10-05T00:00:00Z

    Health secretary Alan Milburn appeared to go out of his way to antagonise the private health sector in his party conference speech. The Conservatives were, he claimed, 'the political wing of the private health insurance movement'.

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    A clear case of. . .

    2000-10-05T00:00:00Z

    'I n the absence of evidence of consistency and transparency at all stages of the General Medical Council fitness to practise procedures, it remains difficult to demonstrate that all doctors in all cases are treated fairly, although there is no evidence that they are not. '

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    For good measure

    2000-10-05T00:00:00Z

    Integrated care pathways are gaining prominence nationally, not least as a now-recognised precursor of clinical governance. In 1997 Dorset health authority sponsored Dorset Healthcare trust to begin a personalised care management development programme centred on the development of integrated care pathways. We feel that this approach in mental health is ...

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    We'll meet again

    2000-10-05T00:00:00Z

    Given the observation that up to 16 per cent of medical re-admissions are potentially preventable, it is not surprising that the proportion of emergency re-admissions within 28 days has been adopted as a quality and performance indicator by the UK government.

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    in person

    2000-10-05T00:00:00Z

    Dr Julie Hollyman is chief executive designate of the new West London Mental Health trust, which will come into effect next April. She is currently chief executive of Broadmoor Hospital Authority, which will merge with Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham Mental Health trust to form the new organisaton.