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Commissioning must be flexible to achieve targets, research suggests
Ministers may have to adopt a more 'flexible' approach to GP commissioning if they want it to deliver all their objectives for the NHS, research suggests.
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Executive halts ACHCEW legal service tender bids
Health officials have abandoned moves to find new lawyers for a national patients' group.
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Tyne & Wear reveals HAZ potential to save pounds80m
Health and local government leaders predict they can squeeze pounds80m a year more out of existing resources under ambitious plans to pilot new models of care in Tyne & Wear.
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Survivors
Survivors: health secretary Frank Dobson meets Minnie Hodges, aged 107, during a visit to Moseley Hall Hospital, Birmingham. Mrs Hodges was in hospital after a fall, and was preparing to return home at the time of Mr Dobson's visit. She told reporters afterwards that she believed John Major was Britain's ...
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Stage struck
Doctors can hardly conceal their glee, the unions are furious, and managers have been warned that their pay rises
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There is scope for Powys-like protest
There is scope for Powys-like protest in its decision since the project group reports: 'The one trust option is greatly feared in the north of the country' and there is 'cohesive opposition from the local trust, GPs and local councillors'.
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In person
David Black has been appointed medical director of Queen Mary's Sidcup trust, where he has been a consultant physician and geriatrician for the past 10 years. Dr Black was also previously clinical director of the adult medicine directorate and a part-time operations manager at the trust.
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Take your partners
The white paper emphasises collaboration and puts forward a range of proposals. But is there a
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The woman WHO's taking over
The election of Gro Harlem Brundtland as director-general of the World Health Organisation will provide it with a new lease of life and open doors to world leaders.
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PROBLEMS NEED SOLVING
Further to Lee Whitehead's response (Letters, 15 January) to Michael Howlett (Letters, 27 November), I endorse the view that the 'care continuum' of supported housing should be available in every locality. I also suggest that today's solution is tomorrow's problem: once the housing needs of people suffering mental ill health ...
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Monitor
It's all very embarrassing when you give someone the boot and are then forced to give them their job back. Which must explain why South Thames regional office has insisted on saying that Lady Helen Gardiner has had her appointment as chair of Surrey Ambulance trust 'extended'. 'It's an extension ...
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MERGING MANAGEMENT WOULD REDUCE WASTE
As another ex-nurse, I write in response to N Brown's letter (22 January) about the amount of money spent on chief executives.
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Key Points
The white paper proposals for partnerships in the NHS of the future are much less developed than those for performance.
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Key Points
The white paper proposal to fund primary care groups according to a set formula is beset with difficulties.