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The rest is silence
The National Blood Authority board meeting made little drama out of its latest crisis. Lyn Whitfield reports
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Wake-up call
The government's declaration that community care has failed should galvanise mental health professionals into action. Cathy Cooper reports
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The survey's findings
Only 4 per cent of commissioners work solely on mental health purchasing, translating into two or fewer whole-time
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End this shambles
'One might have expected just a whisper of concern to escape someone's lips. It was not what you would call a wholehearted conversion to the world of open government'
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A question of accountability
What more damning indictment could there be of the internal market than NHS chief executive Alan Langlands' admission (see News, page 5) that he had not known about the failure of cervical screening services because it was 'not the way we were running the health service in those years'?
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Turn and turn about
When a national sample of psychiatrists taking early retirement were asked what might have kept them in the NHS large numbers apparently replied, a change of government. Alarmed by the rising number of vacant consultant posts, a pre-election survey by the Royal College of Psychiatrists found members increasingly unhappy about ...
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BY CHRIS HAM Rewriting the ration book
The case of Jaymee Bowen, child B, attracted media interest in 1995 because it epitomised the challenge of health services rationing. In reality, the case was a good deal more complex, raising issues not only about the priority to be attached to expensive medical treatments, but also about whether doctors ...
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Dobbo swears blind that he's **** not ashamed BY MICHAEL WHITE
Don't know about you, but I flinched when I saw those 'Nurses: now the backlash' and 'Nurses fly into blood money row' headlines. They were all about the two British nurses released in Saudi Arabia, of course, but in a week of headlines about bogus angels and clamps left in ...
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The missing link
Although primary care is the foundation of The New NHS, the government has erred in not linking this
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Key Points
The government's strategy for public health may fail because of a lack of co-operation between organisations.
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Commissioned for service
GPs make better-informed decisions about commissioning mental healthcare when clinical and financial information from various agencies is included in service agreements. Eugene McGarrell and colleagues explain
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Key Points
GPs often lack the data to make well-informed judgements about commissioning mental health services.
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Jaymee's legacy
Jaymee Bowen died two years ago. Her death did not get the same attention as the last years of her life - at least at the time. Now academics and ethicists are busy using her as the ultimate case study for discussing healthcare rationing. It might be objected that hers ...
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NAO launches inquiry into crisis-hit blood service as chief gets the sack
The National Audit Office has launched an investigation into Britain's crisis-torn blood service.