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Two cheers for HISS
The hospital information support system project has suffered heavy criticism. But supporters say it has benefits that don't show up in the figures, writes Peter Mitchell
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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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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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IHSM ensures leaders will face contested elections
Efforts by leaders of the Institute of Health Services Management to ensure that their successors face contested elections appear to have paid off.
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Drug firms pre-empt DoH's Prodigy
Doctors and pharmacists will next year receive a CD-ROM detailing available prescription medicines, complete with data sheets, supplied free by the UK drugs industry.
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NHS Executive is wary of proposals for electronic prescriptions system
The NHS Executive is looking warily at commercial plans to build electronic message channels between GPs and pharmacists.
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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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Getting to the evidence
The immense growth in sources of information for evidence-based medicine calls for a strategic approach, rather than a piecemeal and fragmented one. Ian Smith and Judy Palmer look at some good examples
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Getting to the evidence
The immense growth in sources of information for evidence-based medicine calls for a strategic approach, rather than a piecemeal and fragmented one. Ian Smith and Judy Palmer look at some good examples the task
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Regions to face sanctions over unmet targets
NHS regions will be expected to cut the number of patients waiting for hospital admissions by up to one-fifth by next April.
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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 equivalent staff in 87 per cent of HAs.
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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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news focus
It's all change as the GPs' organisations regroup and reposition themselves in the run-up to primary care groups, Lyn Whitfield explains
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Past tense - future imperfect
The lessons from total purchasing suggest that tensions between primary and secondary mental health services are likely to continue, write John Lee and Linda Gask
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Past tense - future imperfect
The lessons from total purchasing suggest that tensions between primary and secondary mental
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Shades of Gray
The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy's new chief executive is no expert in physiotherapy, but says he understands the profession's needs, writes Linda Davidson
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Shades of Gray
The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy's new chief executive is no expert in physiotherapy, but says he understands the profession's needs, writes Linda Davidson