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DEVELOPING PROFESSIONAL JUDGEMENT IN HEALTH CARE Learning through the critical appreciation of practice By Della Fish and Colin Coles Butterworth Heinemann 318 pages pounds17.99
Professionals are under siege. Their one-time autonomy is no longer sacrosanct, partly because patients and clients are more knowledgeable and partly because they are more suspicious. Even doctors, who have for so long inhabited the higher slopes of exclusivity, find their patients challenging their judgement, even as far as the ...
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In person
David Black has been appointed medical director of Queen Mary's Sidcup trust, where he has been a consultant physician and geriatrician for the past 10 years. Dr Black was also previously clinical director of the adult medicine directorate and a part-time operations manager at the trust.
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PERFORMANCE FRAME WORK
WHAT MECHANISMS SHOULD REPLACE 'FINANCIAL COMPETITION' AS THE SPUR TO IMPROVING POOR PERFORMANCE? JOHN APPLEBY REPORTS ON THE NEW FRAMEWORK
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A tale of four cities
Five inner-city general practices, four very different experiences. Kate Adams describes life for patients and staff at practices in Liverpool, Belfast, Glasgow and London
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Take your partners
The white paper emphasises collaboration and puts forward a range of proposals. But is there a
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Key Points
The white paper proposals for partnerships in the NHS of the future are much less developed than those for performance.
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Adding to local divisions
White paper proposals to determine primary care funding according to a set formula will not solve
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Key Points
The white paper proposal to fund primary care groups according to a set formula is beset with difficulties.
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The woman WHO's taking over
The election of Gro Harlem Brundtland as director-general of the World Health Organisation will provide it with a new lease of life and open doors to world leaders.
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Gro Harlem Brundtland: curriculum vitae
Gro Harlem Brundtland was born on 20 April 1939 in Oslo. She studied medicine at Oslo University, and obtained her MD degree in 1963. She received the degree of Master of Public Health from Harvard University in 1965.
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Prevention is the cure
Crime is a public health issue, and partnership is the way to tackle it if experiences in Los Angeles County hold lessons for the UK.
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O f debatable value
The white paper has little to say about mental health, but one organisation is trying to fill the vacuum via its web site.
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More gain, more pain
We may be living longer, but our extra years are marked by disability or long-term illness. Mark Crail reports on some surprising findings in the latest government statistics
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Whooping for joy
The expected four-yearly outbreak of whooping cough failed to materialise for the first time in 1994, after medical researchers succeeded in dispelling fears that immunisation against the illness caused brain damage.
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Vive la difference
While Britain and France are becoming are becoming closer in social and economic terms, as far as health is concerned there is a definite air of vive la difference.
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For what it's worth
The NHS is a strongly redistributive social benefit 'worth' up to pounds1,900 a year in post-tax income to the poorest one-fifth of households. Government economists calculate that households in the top 20 per cent income group, by contrast, benefit to an estimated value of pounds1,330. The average value of the ...