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DoH admits to error but no 'secret agenda' in NHS board appointments
Hundreds of recent NHS board appointments are to be investigated after the Department of Health admitted that an error during a trawl for new members may have led to a disproportionate number of Labour councillors getting jobs.
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Adding to local divisions
White paper proposals to determine primary care funding according to a set formula will not solve
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Barnet faces legal action on cuts
A London trust and health authority are facing legal action from a community health council and doctors over a pounds7m package of cuts.
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DEVELOPING PROFESSIONAL JUDGEMENT IN HEALTH CARE Learning through the critical appreciation of practice By Della Fish and Colin Coles Butterworth Heinemann 318 pages pounds17.99
Professionals are under siege. Their one-time autonomy is no longer sacrosanct, partly because patients and clients are more knowledgeable and partly because they are more suspicious. Even doctors, who have for so long inhabited the higher slopes of exclusivity, find their patients challenging their judgement, even as far as the ...
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Durham mergers to release pounds1.3m
Five trusts in Durham are to be dissolved and three new ones formed from April, in a move set to save pounds1.3m.
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WEB WATCH
With the Devolution Bill now through its second reading and a site chosen for the Scottish Parliament, progress towards self rule is advancing apace. And nowhere more so than in the health service, for which the Designed to Care white paper maps out a future very different from that south ...
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Wet ting the whistle
NHS employees who 'go public' on wrongdoing and malpractice are to get legal protection. Patrick Butler reports on the 'whistleblowers bill'
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Time to turn the tables
'But do the panoply of indicators and league tables, together with the ritual of public scrutiny and humiliation for the laggards, actually improve performance? Where is the evidence?'
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Wired for sound
If the headlines are correct, NHS Direct, a nurse-led 24-hour advice and information helpline to be set up across the country by the year 2000, will transform access to healthcare in the UK. The New NHS white paper hailed NHS Direct as a key element in the modernisation of the ...
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A SIMPLE SOLUTION FOR THE STUDENT SHORTAGE
The Medical Workforce Standing Advisory Committee says the annual intake of medical students should be increased by about 1,000 as soon as possible (News Focus, page 13, 8 January).
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1 Law J, Lyall J. A touch of glasnost in the NHS. Health Service J 1988; 98(5091): 272-73.
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on the record
DONALD REID is the chief executive of the Association for Public Health. He was previously executive director of the Health Education Authority, specialising in programmes for youth and smoking prevention. He is an international consultant on tobacco control strategies.
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In person
London Ambulance Service trust has appointed its first medical director. Fionna Moore (above), an accident and emergency consultant at Charing Cross and Hammersmith hospitals, will be working for LAS two days a week and providing clinical guidance on patient care. LAS has also promoted Wendy Foers to the post of ...
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Reel lives
Was an NHS trust right to allow TV cameras onto a psychiatric ward? Lynn Eaton reports on the row
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Key Points
There is some evidence that the British public would like to see an expansion of telephone advice lines.
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Key Points
The growth of telephone advice lines has been partly driven by managed care schemes, keen to reduce use of health services.
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Send in the hit squad
Send in the hit squad: health minister Alan Milburn launches a consultation document on a performance framework for the NHS at an Adam Smith Institute seminar. Last Wednesday's seminar on raising standards in healthcare was one of a series of events organised by the right-wing think-tank on 'achieving Labour's aims'. ...