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Medical workforce planning is a difficult and neglected area, but ignoring it will cost the NHS dear.
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The government's proposal to survey 100,000 patients a year in order to improve services faces
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HAs to set their own green paper targets
Health authorities will be encouraged to set their own targets to tackle local health problems, public health minister Tessa Jowell told the Journal this week.
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WEB OF GOODWILL
I was pleased to see your comments about our Internet site (Web Watch, 18 December). We produced the current site without the pounds100,000 award from BT; that is a grant to develop it as an interactive site. The site was developed from funding obtained through overseas contacts, who would not ...
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Get ting to know me
A course on self- development left Gill Bennett questioning everything she believed about herself
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NETWORK OF FRAUD
The web address that was quoted in your news article about the crack-down on NHS prescription fraud (News, page 8, 15 January) is the NHSnet address www.fraud.exec.nhs.uk
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news focus
It is rapidly becoming clear which bids for health action zone status have the best chance of success.
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Financial forecasts 'not up to scratch in a third of trusts'
At least a third of trusts need to improve their financial forecasting, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants warned this week.
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Exchange of views
Exchange of views: Ararat Mkrtichian (centre), minister of health for the Republic of Armenia, discusses health with Barrie Fisher, chief executive of North Yorkshire health authority, and HA vice-chair Tony Culyer (reflected in the mirror). Mr Mkrtichian and Susanna Hayrapetian, head of the World Bank project co-ordination unit, visited the ...
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A different way of doing things
The task of implementing white papers north and south of the border will fall to NHS managers. Barbara Millar reports from Scotland and, below, Mark Crail looks at the challenge in England
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Remains of the day
Providers should look at new uses for the day hospital in providing comprehensive elderly care
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The curse of Yorkshiregate
The curse of Yorkshiregate continues to cast its malign influence over those caught up in the scandal. Former Yorkshire regional general manager Keith McLean, whose hold on high office became untenable amid allegations that the regional health authority handed out dodgy relocation payments and partied at the tax-payers' expense, was ...
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CRITIC OF OUR HOSPITAL TRUST'S DEVELOPMENT IDEAS CAN COME OVER AND TALK
Allyson Pollock (Letters, 5 February) confuses two processes.
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Clinical curiosities
Despite the rapidity of clinical and managerial changes, and the increasing availability of information electronically, there seem to be more books about and for the NHS than ever before. Two of the most popular genres are primers to explain to clinicians the magic and mysteries of management so that they ...
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Flawed figures claim in Lothian service review
An ambitious plan to reorganise acute services in Lothian faced fresh opposition this week amid renewed claims it is based on ‘flawed’ figures.
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Union urges parity for Scottish chiefs
Senior managers in Scotland should be brought back into the NHS bargaining framework and their terms of employment overhauled, Unison has told the government.