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Chief medical officers tend to be remembered, if they are remembered, for some concrete achievement. In the case of Sir Kenneth Calman, who retires later this year, either the Calman-Hines cancer framework or even his work on improving the lot of the junior doctor would be a fitting testament.
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It's not a letter of credit
At a stroke, health secretary Frank Dobson has removed the right of trusts to determine the pay and rations of their top teams.
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Fax and figures
Just as a row over closures and cost savings was cooling down, a minor clerical error reignited it.
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Screen hero
Whistleblower Neil Woodward brought to light serious flaws in cervical screening at Kent and Canterbury trust, yet tells Mark Gould he feels his action has made him unemployable in the NHS
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Occupied territory
Good occupational health makes financial sense, but many trusts don't realise it. Mark Crail reports
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All quiet on the front line
Managers believe performance indicators have some - limited - value. But junior doctors and other frontline staff are often ignorant of their existence. Maria Goddard and colleagues report on a study of eight hospitals
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Key Points
Managers interviewed in hospital trusts, health authorities and regional offices believed performance indicators to be broadly helpful. But our study found evidence that the role of the current performance indicators is distinctly limited.
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Council of optimism
Social workers are long overdue for regulation by a statutory body. But, as Lynn Eaton reports, care workers in residential and nursing homes may still slip through the net
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Cause for complaint
'This year's report makes depressing reading: not only is the volume of complaints rising inexorably - not in itself a bad thing - but the ability of the NHS to deal with them seems not to improve'
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Doctors' orders?
Few organisations of standing within the NHS would have the brass neck to issue ultimatums to government. And perhaps only one would do so in near complete self-confidence that its two-week deadline would be met. Step forward the British Medical Association (see News, page 7).
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'SAVE BART'S' PETITION WAS DONE BY THE BOOK
How odd that NHS chief executive Alan Langlands has not woken up to the desperate plight of old and sick people in London, and realised, as health secretary Frank Dobson has, that Bart's has enormous support because it is sorely needed (Monitor, 23 April).
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JOB DESCRIPTION PUZZLE
As someone who gets paid to do a job, and gets to work thanks to a train-driving professional, I am puzzled by the term 'health professionals', which I frequently see in your pages.
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HOW CAN NACGP KNOW WHAT WE'VE SAID IF IT HASN'T BOTHERED TO LISTEN?
I was most surprised to read in your report about the creation of a new primary care organisation, the National Association of Primary Care, that Andrew Willis of the National Association of Commissioning GPs said it had not been possible to agree principles between his organisation, NAFP and the Association ...
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ALL TOGETHER NOW... 'YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'VE GOT 'TIL IT'S GONE'
The letter from Carole Rawlinson and John Kelly (30 April) advising NHS managers to hold their horses on closures of community hospitals should have received star billing. The logic of their research-based argument is impeccable.