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Going through the change
Managers need to be aware that a period of adjustment is an important part of the transition from old commissioning models to primary care groups, say Jane Beenstock and Nicola Walsh
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Manager suspended for bullying
A manager at Royal Edinburgh Hospital has been suspended and an inquiry launched into allegations of intimidation and bullying of nursing staff.
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Broadening the horizons
Health & environmental impact assessment an integrated approach British Medical Association Earthscan 256 pages 14.95
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'Winter pressures' could tip the balance of care
A re-assessment of NHS priorities is necessary to cope this winter
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Back to business
Social entrepreneurship offers to health and social services a public- spirited option in community care contracting. Patrick Butler reports
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Managers back authenticity of Labour's latest waiting list tally
NHS 'waiting list buster' Peter Homa has defended managers against Conservative claims that the record 45,000 drop in waiting lists announced last week was achieved by dubious methods.
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The Patients Association overlaps the role community health councils hold by statute
In your report on the annual conference of the Association of Community Health Councils (News Focus, 23 July), David Spilsbury of South Birmingham CHC seems to feel that the CHC should be and is the only organisation to represent patients' views.
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The situation in Gaza and the West Bank is unusual and requires a unique sensitive approach
I was interested but disappointed to read your interview with Cathy Gritzner on setting up a health service in Palestine (News Focus, 25 June).
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The ways ahead
Developments in British social policy Edited by Nick Ellison and Chris Pierson Macmillan 323 pages 14.50
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Hospital slates decision to delay using paediatric ward left empty after revamp
Health authorities are being asked to pay for a paediatric neurosurgery ward that has been standing empty for six months and may now never open.
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New cash to treat drug abuse
Health and local authorities are to be allocated an extra 70.5m to provide new treatment services for drug misusers and young people at risk.
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More beef about beef
After E coli in Lanarkshire, the next Pennington inquiry will examine a typhoid outbreak that turned Aberdeen into a beleaguered city - 34 years ago.
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3 September 1948
It would be bad for the NHS to escape the attention of critics. In an atmosphere of complacency its will to succeed would be sapped. Constructive criticism should be treated with respect. In an undertaking of such magnitude there are bound to be unsatisfactory features.
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Tight timing for PCG start
Health authorities have been given a tight timetable for getting the first piece of the primary care group funding jigsaw in place.
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Mis-sold pensions settled 'speedily'
Unions have welcomed the 'pretty speedy' progress finally being made in resolving the personal pensions mis-selling scandal that hit tens of thousands of NHS staff in the 1980s.
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Transfers to NHS from jail 'too slow'
The chief inspector of prisons has alerted home secretary Jack Straw to 'totally unacceptable' delays in transferring mentally ill prisoners from Long Lartin jail to the NHS.
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PFI 'milestone' for Edinburgh
Contracts have been signed for Scotland's flagship private finance initiative hospital building project - a 180m replacement for Edinburgh's Royal Infirmary, City Hospital and Princess Margaret Rose Orthopaedic Hospital.
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Winning the day
Scotland has improved its day surgery performance, and even convinced sceptical GPs. Barbara Millar reports