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Home in on the range
How can staff give comprehensive advice if they are not aware of the full spectrum of services they can offer? One trust set up a database to help them.
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Health inquality targets
The Department of Health has bitten the bullet and set national targets for reducing health inequalities. Achieving them is likely to prove difficult and beyond the scope of the NHS alone, says John Appleby
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Mike Cooke
Mike Cooke, currently chief executive at Runcorn's Halton General Hospital, has been appointed chief executive of the new South Staffordshire Healthcare trust, which becomes operational on 1 April.
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Disgruntled GPs will not be bought off with £100m. . .
. . . but government's long-awaited focus on primary care is welcome
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Scandalously quick to judge
Where's the justice in wielding axe before investigations are complete?
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Poor data hampers child death review
An inquiry into child death rates at Harefield Hospital has shrugged off claims that mortality for patients treated for congenital heart problems increased as a result of 'major clinical failure'.
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'Golden hellos' form part of £56m package to get - and keep - staff
Campaigning by professional organisations for more to be done to improve GP and nurse recruitment and retention paid off this week, when health secretary Alan Milburn announced millions of pounds in 'golden hellos'.
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DoH struggles to find formula for traffic-light fund
The Department of Health is struggling to come up with meaningful measures for allowing access to the £250m performance fund and introducing the traffic-light bandings of trusts and health authorities this summer.
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Modernisation Agency is no longer 'hit squad'
The NHS Modernisation Agency looks set to take a developmental rather than a punitive approach, distancing NHS performance management from the hit-squad approach.
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Warnings of 'changes in style'as new broooms sweep key regions
Acting regional directors John Bacon and Ruth Carnall have been appointed to take up substantive posts in London and the South East.
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the young people's health congress
Catching them early: the young people's health congress, involving more than 100 youngsters from around Scotland, took part in a mock health debate in the Scottish Parliament.
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In Brief
All NHS staff who do not have a professional qualification will have access to an individual learning account of £150 or dedicated training to NVQ levels 2 and 3 from 1 April. Employers are being encouraged to collaborate with local education providers to foster personal and career development for staff.
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Peers in cross-party resolve to force health bill concessions
The government faces almost 250 amendments to its Health and Social Care Bill in the Lords and is under pressure to make concessions on four key policy areas or risk losing the legislation altogether.