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    Lending a hand

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    primary care groups

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    Key points

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    High-quality, dedicated management support was crucial to the GP commissioning pilots.

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    Rating of IT arrangements (August to October 1998)

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    Interviewees were asked to rate IT arrangements using a 1-5 scale.

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    Lessons for PCGs from GP commissioning pilots

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    primary care groups

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    Our time has come

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    open space

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    Count the cost

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    clinical audit

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    Key points

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    A system for calculating the cost of clinical audits in terms of money and staff time has been in operation at Brighton Health Care trust since 1995.

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    Money talks: the price of a clinical audit department

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    To calculate the hourly cost per person in the clinical audit department, we divide the total pay and non-pay annual cost of running the department (£156,878 in 1997-98) by the total person hours available each year (12,316 in 1997-98) to provide an hourly cost per person (£12.74 for 1997-98).

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    REFERENCES

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    1 Department of Health. First-Class Service, quality in the new NHS. HMSO, 1998.

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    Developing whirl

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    career exchange

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    GENERAL MANAGERS

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    career exchange

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    Rising young star who argues over the bill

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    westminster diary

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    Government stops CHI covering private sector

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    The government has overturned a Lords amendment to the Health Bill which would have allowed the Commission for Health Improvement to regulate both NHS and private hospitals.

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    in brief

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    Seventeen trust non-executive posts fell vacant in 1998 and had not been filled by 1 May 1999, health minister John Denham has admitted. They included the chair's post at Chester and Halton Community trust, and two board places at East Surrey HA.

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    Separated at birth

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    books

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    Education change on the gender?

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    Nurses and doctors at work

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    Art of the possible the scientific way

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    Evidence-based health promotion

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    in person

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    Tees and North East Yorkshire trust has seven board-level appointments. Moira Britton, who headed the former South Tees Community and Mental Health trust, is chief executive of the new trust. She is joined by chair Eileen Grace, a Labour councillor and deputy leader of Middlesbrough council. Dr Kathryn Gillen, Eleanor ...

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    Events

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    Items are entered free for public sector, voluntary and professional organisations, but we need at least six weeks' notice of your event. Please send details to Uli Jaeger, HSJ, Greater London House, Hampstead Road, London, NW1 7EJ. Fax: 0171-874 0254.

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    Short cuts 'Appalling' racism found in psychiatric hospitals

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    A Mental Health Act Commission visit to collect information on patients from black and ethnic minorities found 'appalling instances' of poor treatment. More than 150 commissioners visited 110 psychiatric hospitals this month to investigate their policies, procedures and practice. The findings are due to be published in October. Commissioner Kamlesh ...