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Jarrold urges IHSM probe
The time has come for a fundamental review of the Institute of Health Services Management, former president Ken Jarrold told its annual general meeting.
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Puzzling it out
When Tony Blair last addressed the annual conference of what was then the National Association of Health Authorities and Trusts, he said Labour would dismantle the internal market. He also pledged to avoid 'major upheaval'.
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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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Medical product companies refuse to sign year 2000 IT bug guarantees
Medical product manufacturers are collectively refusing to sign year 2000 IT compliance certificates sent to them by trusts.
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Bevan's babies at 50
It was the year of the austerity Olympics in London, the first Polo mint rolled off the production line, bread was tuppence a loaf, and the NHS was born, along with 905,000 babies in the UK. Bernadette Friend tracked down some of Bevan's 1948 babies - who went on to ...
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More ambulances meet 999 targets despite rise in emergency journeys
More ambulances met 999 response-time targets last year, despite a 4 per cent rise in the number of emergency journeys, official figures reveal.
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BMA backs calls to close A&Es
Doctors' leaders have thrown their weight behind the idea of 'super hospitals' serving half a million people each, claiming that local hospitals do not have the technology to save patients' lives.
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CHCs face a shake-up after damning report
Community health councils have largely failed in their role as local NHS watchdogs and are in need of a radical overhaul, according to a report backed by the NHS Executive.
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Andrew Riley
has joined South Warwickshire General Hospitals trust as chief executive. He originally trained as a radiographer and held various posts in the NHS before spending a brief spell in the private sector, working for a computer company. He returned to the NHS in 1990 and was most recently acting chief ...
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Minister's written guarantees on PCGs fail to mollify angry GPs
Angry GPs are demanding further concessions on the structure, make up and resourcing of primary care groups, despite written guarantees from health minister Alan Milburn.
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Another woman chief executive writes...
I read with interest and surprise 'A gender for change' (pages 24-27, 11 June). What particularly surprised me was Hilary Pepler indicating that 'all the other chief executives in Liverpool are men'.
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The appliance of science
Managers are being told to take a more scientific approach to their work. Pat Healy reports from the European Healthcare Management Association conference in Dublin
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Assembly line
Jan Williams, chief executive of Iechyd Morgannwyg HA, tried hard not to sound too pessimistic about the future of Welsh HAs under a National Assembly.
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Nurses make claims to autonomy, so why didn't they blow the whistle?
I welcome health secretary Frank Dobson's announcement of a public inquiry into the tragic deaths of the children 'cared' for at Bristol Royal Infirmary. I have a number of reservations, which I hope will be part of the inquiry, although I have no great faith that they will be.
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Doctors should have been forced to retrain, not barred for three years
I find the recent General Medical Council decisions - regarding one of the Bristol surgeons and the anaesthetist involved in the paediatric dental case - extraordinary.