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Clark sets up public services panel
Focus groups are the flavour of the month in government circles. The latest - dubbed, inevitably, 'the People's Panel' - has been set up by public services minister David Clark.
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Five key questions are asked during the assessment
Does the patient want to take part in the self-medication scheme?
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LibDems call in safe-sex guide academic to rewrite manifesto
A former chief executive of the Health Education Authority, who quit after falling out with Conservative government ministers over a 'smutty' safe sex guide for children, is to help the Liberal Democrats overhaul their health policy.
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TENDER IS THE SLIGHT
In Pat Healy's article regarding the invitation to tender for legal services for the Association of Community Health Councils for England and Wales (News, page 9, 22 January), it is suggested that public law is a specialist legal area not usually practised by commercial solicitors. While I do not comment ...
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Time to see some results
Health secretary Frank Dobson’s stock has risen since his uneasy debut last summer (see Politics, page 21). But that won’t last long if he has to preside over many more announcements of large increases in waiting lists. Figures for England showing just that were expected as the Journal went to ...
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REFERENCES
1 Feil E, Welch H, Fisher E. Why estimates of physician supply and requirements disagree. JAMA 1993; 269(20):2659-63.
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REFERENCES
1 National Audit Office. National Health Service Day Hospitals for Elderly People in England. London: HMSO, 1994.
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From paper to practice
White paper proposals for primary care groups are evidence of the government coming up with something 'new'. But, asks Andrew Wall, are they really anything more than an uneasy mix of naivety
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The shock of the new
Health service managers have been given a stern warning not to try to seize control of healthcare reform in the wake of The New NHS as they did with Working for Patients during the early 1990s.
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Long and winding road - to where?
'The NHS is about to embark on a journey to who knows where, armed only with the sketchiest of blueprints riddled with contradiction and ambiguity'
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Spreading the load
One health authority assembled information for a medical staffing profile to help achieve a balance of supply and demand.
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Welsh waiting lists rise by a third
The number of patients waiting for treatment at Welsh hospitals has risen by more than a third in a year.
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Key Points
Medical workforce planning is a difficult and neglected area, but ignoring it will cost the NHS dear.
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Key Points
The government's proposal to survey 100,000 patients a year in order to improve services faces