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Called to account
The Audit Commission is due for a review of its work over the past five years. Mark Crail reports
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Past and failed
How have the eager young would-be medics we saw on TV in 1984 fared? Mark Crail reports
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Dismissal of a dinosaur
Events at the National Blood Authority last week carry a far-reaching symbolic significance. Health secretary Frank Dobson's very public dismissal of NBA chair Sir Colin Walker is destined to form a memorable milestone on the long trek from the Conservatives' market-based NHS to New Labour's so-called 'modern, dependable' one.
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The power and the pilfering
This may be the age of the £125,000-a-year trust chief executive responsible for 15,000 staff and a budget of more than £400m, but can any manager in today's NHS claim the untrammelled power and influence - let alone the unquestioned personal authority - of the group secretary and house governor ...
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Losing the Commons touch action
Symbolism is always important. How disappointing, then, that party managers from both sides of the Commons are said to have rejected proposals to modernise the debating chamber. Leaving aside pressing constitutional issues, parliamentary weakness and executive dominance, cramped quarters are known to encourage aggression in rats - let alone honourable ...
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Blood on the carpet as axe falls on Sir Colin
MPs knew as well as anyone else that some sort of showdown was coming over the dear old blood transfusion service ever since the National Blood Authority swept away the 50-year-old patchwork five years ago last week. In the AIDS era blood is a sensitive as well as symbolic commodity.
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So St James' boss David Johnson has been appointed chief executive of the new Leeds 'super trust'. But Monitor is curious to unravel the mystery of who the other three candidates were who were interviewed for the £125,000 post. Leeds health authority chief executive Ron De Witt was one. But ...
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HAZs warning
The lessons of earlier area-based approaches to health and social welfare should be heeded if health action zones are to avoid past pitfalls, says Joan Higgins
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Prospects of partnership
The strategic joint working envisaged in the The New NHS white paper requires a partnership approach at the front line, argues Bob Hudson