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    Mike White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'The Lansley policy is that an independent body should allocate resources to each PCT according to need, largely age-related; that health inequality budgets should be paid to directors of public health; and that the shift to a new weighted capitation formula should be done over several years to prevent budget ...

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    Media Watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Ding dong as hospital bans carollers,' said The Daily Telegraphas it revealed that the Torbay Gospelaires had been banned from entering Torbay hospital wards.

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    Mediawatch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    New year, new resolutions, and even the media is backing smokers on their quest to kick the habit.

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    Variance in primary care HRG spending

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    This data briefing from Dr Foster Intelligence shows how primary care spending on healthcare resource groups varies across strategic health authorities. The research covers year-on-year changes in the first quarter of 2006. It is based on the number of spells coded with HRGs and covered by payment by results.

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    Patients' memory of offer of choice

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    It has been nearly a year since choice at the point of referral to hospital by GP was to be formally offered to all patients. Are the poor now getting the choices that have always been available to the rich (to paraphrase former health secretary John Reid)? And through their ...

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    Responses to independence roundtable

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    It appears that participants in the roundtable discussion on independence of the NHS pulled their punches. Let me not pull mine.

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    Richard Bourne on rethinking the role of local government

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Local government may not be brilliant at commissioning but they are better than the NHS. They have been at it longer, they have already embraced provider plurality, commissioning, market management, best value, overview and scrutiny and public engagement'

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    How to be top

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    What is the secret of healthcheck ratings success? Loyal staff and paying close attention to what the public expects are key ingredients, hears Lynne Greenwood, as she talks to the two acute trusts with gold-standard ratings

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    Carruthers hit the right note; now follow up with clarity

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'What managers need is clarity on what is expected of them and what they can expect from the centre'

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    Tough decisions still need to make a case

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Managers attempting to restructure services across Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire strategic health authority may feel they have at last got friends in the right places.

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    Mike White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Mr Blair retains a lot more drive and determination than Mr Major had (ever), but his authority is fading'

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    Media watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Its conclusion: the 'glitzy 'joined-up' NHS remains a low-tech hotch-potch'

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    Data Briefing

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Day-case rate variations by SHA

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    Media Watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    So began the week of blanket coverage of the British Medical Association’s annual whinge-fest conference

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    Tariff system will reshape specialist trust landscape

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'If the Michael Porter view won converts in this country it would mark a major and highly controversial change in the specialist infrastructure.'

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    Media Watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Everyone was looking the other way on 16 June when the Financial Timesbroke the story that the government was advertising for private sector primary care trust management services.

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    Data Briefing: cost benchmarking for foundations

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    With many foundation trusts having to save 15 per cent over three years, the Foundation Trust Network joined consultant McKinsey to develop a benchmarking tool. This aims to enable trusts to analyse costs at healthcare resource group level.

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    Effective health messages

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    For some people, being classified as ill or disabled is not such a bad thing

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    Local authority role will mark out networks as a new voice

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    It makes more sense for elected representatives to concern themselves with how health services are planned than how they are provided

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    Will it be Independence Day 5 July 2008?

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    You cannot expect to get the politician off your back while keeping the consumer at arm's length