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Good skills don't come cheap
Southampton University Hospitals trust this week offered a new pay deal to qualified healthcare assistants which would raise some salaries to £11,600 a year.
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Have they seen the future?
This week's announcement that 11 more hospitals have been approved under the private finance initiative is further proof that the government has succeeded in delivering a policy which defeated its predecessor (see News, page 3). Full marks to Frank Dobson and friends for consistency and integrity.
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A stab at putting Bill to rights
Last month, the Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality, established in September 1996 to fulfil the president's campaign promise to deal with the growing public backlash against managed care, presented its final report to him.
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Don't count your dosh before it's delivered
Though I'm too old to be a junior hospital doctor, it's an occupational hazard in my line of work to be woken at night to diagnose troublesome cases. So naturally I was wheeled out mid-week to examine an inflamed Times headline which was obviously running a temperature.
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Further signs that New Labour’s thought police have a tight grip on the health service emerged at a recent Northern and Yorkshire regional Institute of Health Services Management meeting. Among the speakers was NHS boss Alan Langlands, who once again poured forth about he how wanted everyone to be part ...
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A force to reckon with
The NHS's expanding workforce of healthcare assistants needs to be better valued and better regulated, says Janet Snell
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The American way
The white paper may force the NHS down the route of the US health maintenance organisation, argues Allyson Pollock
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10 projects worth £900m given the green light in second wave of PFI
Ten hospital building projects worth almost £900m were given the go-ahead by ministers this week in a second wave of private finance initiative approvals.
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Unison general secretary Rodney Bickerstaffe hits out at ministers' 'reckless' plans to build more hospitals using private finance, at the union's annual healthcare service group conference in Brighton. Delegates condemned the government's decision to stage the 1998 pay review body awards.
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on the record
CLIVE BATES is director of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH). After gaining an engineering degree from Cambridge University he worked for IBM. In 1992 he joined Greenpeace as a volunteer, working in campaigning and lobbying before taking up his post at ASH last June.