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Alzheimer's campaign challenges drug claims
The Alzheimer's Disease Society has challenged researchers' claims that new drug therapies could effectively pay for themselves by keeping patients out of institutional care.
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Total purchasing study predicts PCGs won't cut management bill
The introduction of primary care groups is unlikely to reduce NHS management costs in their first few years, a King's Fund report has suggested.
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Scottish trusts make 'unnecessary use of locum medical cover' as costs double
Poor management is to blame for the high cost of locum medical cover, a report by the Accounts Commission for Scotland says.
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The Scottish Accounts Commission's recommendations
Limit locum appointments to unavoidable or unplanned absences such as sick leave.
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Party time
Party time: health secretary Frank Dobson and the 'first NHS patient' Sylvia Diggory returned to Trafford General Hospital, where Aneurin Bevan launched the health service in 1948, to celebrate its 50th anniversary on Sunday (main picture). Meanwhile (from top), June Catterall (nee Salisbury), the first baby born into the NHS ...
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Going first class with the NHS
When The New NHS white paper was published six months ago, its focus on quality surprised many people. But while it made all the right noises, it also skilfully left much unsaid. The specifics would, we were told, be set out in a consultation paper.
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Birthday greetings to the one they love
Well, what a week. Hardly a dry eye in sight by the time the Great and Good emerged from Westminster Abbey after the service to celebrate 50 years of the NHS. 'I felt very proud just to be there,' one health minister told me, grateful to be in the right ...
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Hospital death rates
How useful are clinical performance measures? And will they prevent such tragedies as the Bristol baby deaths case? John Appleby reports
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Adding weight to measures
Health secretary Frank Dobson put quality at the 'heart of the NHS' in a warmly received speech, strongly reaffirming the government's commitment to the current financing of the service.
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First thoughts on A First Class Service
Senior figures in healthcare were quick to respond to health secretary Frank Dobson's proposals on quality.
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NHS chiefs told to answer back
Chief of health authorities and trusts were urged in a health service circular to respond to the quality consultation document A First Class Service. The main elements are:
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Recruitment dive
Promises outlined by health secretary Frank Dobson for the next 50 years would not materialise unless the acute nursing recruitment and retention crisis was halted, Royal College of Nursing general secretary, Christine Hancock warned.
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A 50th birthday resolution for the NHS: treat staff and users as adults
The issues for debate during the NHS's 50th anniversary concern its core values: professionalism, consumerism and the notion of the public sector.
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Local authority chiefs take less from the kitty
I am wholly in favour of top managers in the public services being properly paid, but 'Fair shares of the kitty' (cover feature, pages 24- 27, 25 June), in examining NHS pay levels, claimed that local authorities 'pay their chief executives as generously, if not more generously, than NHS chief ...
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Adapting and improving Scottish blood service
I read with interest your News Focus, 'In similar vein' (page 16, 18 June), and would like to clarify the strategy proposals put forward for the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service.
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Questions about HAs and health promotion
I agree wholeheartedly with Pam Cooper (Letters, 4 June) that health promotion specialists, by virtue of their experience in working across agency boundaries for many years, have the potential to make a major contribution to the development of health improvement programmes and primary care groups, given the organisational position of ...
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Together we can share responsibility for mental health
To allow mental health services to be 'single parents', as Matt Muijen recommends (Community Spirit, 21 May), is to condemn service users to a continuation of the nightmare that is much of current mental health provision in the inner city: disconnected services, dispirited staff and a blame culture in the ...
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Is the health service flawed or do HSJ readers enjoy self-flagellation?
In your 18 June issue, the first 12 stories carried the words 'victim', 'threat', 'attacks', 'doubts', 'revolt', 'marred', 'crisis', 'threatens', 'bad', 'pressure', 'rocks' and 'bully-boy'.