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Faith and hope in health charities
Patient power? The politics of patients' associations in Britain and America By Bruce Wood Open University Press 224 pages £19.99
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Making a stand for understanding
Caring for Muslim patients Edited by Aziz Sheikh and Abdul Rashid Gatrad Radcliffe Medical Press 140 pages £17.95
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PFI projects ring up £52.7m in consultant bills
The full scale of expenditure on financial advisers, lawyers and other consultants in the 18 major private finance initiative hospital schemes that have so far gone ahead has been revealed in the Commons - a cool £52.7m.
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In Brief: London region has highest number of GPs approaching retirement
The London region of the NHS has the highest number of GPs approaching retirement in England. It calculates that 206 of its 4,000 GPs - or roughly 5 per cent of the total - are aged 64 or over, although this means they have in theory up to six years ...
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In Brief: The NHS has built 87 major hospitals between 1980 and 1999
The NHS has built 87 major hospitals between 1980 and 1999, with the most productive years being 1988 and 1991, when nine hospitals with a capital value of over £25m (at today's prices) went up in each year. Not included in the figures were the 38 major hospitals that have ...
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In Brief: The Department of Health commissioned 42 pieces of market and opinion research
The Department of Health commissioned 42 pieces of market and opinion research during 1999-2000, of which 11 involved focus groups, and 12 involved 'other market research' (the remainder are 'quantitative surveys'). Some 31 are listed as 'not published'. (Hansard , 17 July, col 65w)
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Management consultancy is a stressful game - and between Powerpoint presentations and trips to the service station to get more 'business cards' printed there's always a spot of Countdown to keep the grey cells ticking over. Top marks, then, to Crew Services, who promise to take the mystique out of ...
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Dear Mel. . .
Our hospital social club has just started running 'exotic' entertainment evenings. On Tuesdays it's a hen night for the ladies with male strippers and so on, while Thursdays are stag nights for the lads with the female variety. The club makes quite a lot of money which it donates to ...
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Regular consumers of this page may remember one Dr Tara Fields, a lady doctor and Yankee to boot. (In the interests of Monitor's continued fight against institutional jokes about people not from round here, it should be noted that violence against Americans is reckless and not much fun. ) But ...
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'Climate of fear' mars push to create PCTs
The government is at risk of 'derailing' its own reform of primary care, according to research by the NHS Alliance.
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Nurses to ballot over on-call pay
Managers at a landmark private finance initiative scheme in Carlisle are facing industrial action from staff in three departments.
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Days like this
Internal market and waiting times. . . Funding to remove patients from lists. . . Trust applications. . . Limited powers for HAs. . . And CHCs
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A dose of scepticism
As pressure groups, drug companies and others express their doubts about the National Institute for Clinical Excellence, Lynn Eaton meets its beleaguered chief executive
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Empowerment to the people
Professor Aidan Halligan insists he's not one of the great and the good, but he tells Kaye McIntosh that his clinical governance support team is about delivering a 'patient-centred, staff-owned quality health service'
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Mind how you go
Speculation about Scottish health minister Susan Deacon's future continues apace. Colin Wright reports
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Paddington plans laid bare
An ambitious scheme to transform heart and lung services at one site in west London will shake up hospitals in the capital. Laura Donnelly reports
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In the wars
After a growing number of horrifying attacks on hospital staff, trusts are getting tough with their assailants. Phil Coleman reports