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Lord Justice Phillips
Lord Justice Phillips, chair of the government's BSE inquiry, opens its preliminary session in London last week. He said former ministers, civil servants and animal feed manufacturers would be questioned about the spread of 'mad cow disease', but the 'primary object of the inquiry is not to attribute blame but ...
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Whooping for joy
The expected four-yearly outbreak of whooping cough failed to materialise for the first time in 1994, after medical researchers succeeded in dispelling fears that immunisation against the illness caused brain damage.
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For what it's worth
The NHS is a strongly redistributive social benefit 'worth' up to pounds1,900 a year in post-tax income to the poorest one-fifth of households. Government economists calculate that households in the top 20 per cent income group, by contrast, benefit to an estimated value of pounds1,330. The average value of the ...
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Whistleblower policy hailed as NHS 'model'
A 'whistleblowing' policy which guarantees the right of trust staff to go public with their concerns has been commended as a 'model' for the rest of the NHS.
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Green Park Healthcare trust
Green Park Healthcare trust chief executive Hilary Boyd (right) watches as staff nurse Wendy Shannon monitors a hip-replacement patient. Ms Shannon has been taking part in a trust training scheme for junior managers which involves a four-week secondment to another department. She shadowed the chief executive and in return Ms ...
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Ministers give go-ahead to UK's largest teaching trust
Ministers have given the go-ahead to create the UK's biggest teaching hospital trust, ending a two-year on-off merger saga.
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Milburn orders re-think on Gateshead proposals
Health minister Alan Milburn has asked two trusts to re-examine merger proposals in the light of the government's white paper.
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More gain, more pain
We may be living longer, but our extra years are marked by disability or long-term illness. Mark Crail reports on some surprising findings in the latest government statistics
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PERFORMANCE FRAME WORK
WHAT MECHANISMS SHOULD REPLACE 'FINANCIAL COMPETITION' AS THE SPUR TO IMPROVING POOR PERFORMANCE? JOHN APPLEBY REPORTS ON THE NEW FRAMEWORK
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How Dowager Ginny gave poor Frank a headache BY MICHAEL WHITE
Quite the liveliest health question time of the year (actually it was the first) the other day. Fearless Frank tore into the BBC for misreporting a '65-hours on a ward-trolley' atrocity in Surrey. Everyone said 'Happy 40th birthday' to Minister Milburn, and Paul Boateng got rapped on the knuckles by ...
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WHEN THE PATIENTS JUST DON'T WANT TO KNOW
We were interested to see that the study by Hilary Arksey and colleagues ('Tell it like it is', pages 32-33, 22 January) bears out the findings of a similar study we undertook into the needs of cancer patients' carers in Hillingdon in 1993.1 Their information needs were again identified as ...
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Doctors reject rescue plans for Worcester
Doctors have rejected Worcestershire health authority plans to re-organise hospital services in the face of an pounds18m deficit.
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Pay managers the same as other staff, says Dobson
Health secretary Frank Dobson has written to health authority and trust chairs, urging them to give senior managers the same pay award as other NHS staff.
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Vive la difference
While Britain and France are becoming are becoming closer in social and economic terms, as far as health is concerned there is a definite air of vive la difference.
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Equally determined over pay
'Staging the award will be a relief to those who would otherwise have to find money the NHS does not have, but it will have done little to inspire the confidence of staff who will see their salaries fall in real terms this year'
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O f debatable value
The white paper has little to say about mental health, but one organisation is trying to fill the vacuum via its web site.
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BY DAVID HUNTER Putting the 'national' in NHS
'If the theme of integrated care is to become more than just a catchy slogan, the performance management agenda becomes critical. And it has to be about more than sending in high-profile hit-squads. Their arrival is a sign of failure, not of sound management practice'
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Prevention is the cure
Crime is a public health issue, and partnership is the way to tackle it if experiences in Los Angeles County hold lessons for the UK.