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Finance managers: give us timetable for latest reforms
Finance managers have warned the government to get to grips with the process of implementing its NHS reforms before it is too late. They want a timetable by the end of the month, setting out the work needed to implement the white paper.
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In the frame of the law
Clinical governance will put chief executives in the firing line on medical issues. Pat Healy reports
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Hands of history?
Public health minister Tessa Jowell makes her mark as she formally launches the health action zone for Manchester, Salford and Trafford this week. She presents a display of handprints from local children whose health prospects will be a key focus for the HAZ. Work has started on the seven year ...
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Partnership is key to Scottish HR strategy
A partnership between government, managers, unions and staff must be forged to sweep away outdated attitudes and employment practices, Scottish health minister Sam Galbraith said last week.
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IHSM urges sanctions on quality
A call for sanctions to back up the government's new quality agenda was made this week after health secretary Frank Dobson launched an annual programme of national service frameworks.
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Measuring up
Dietician Marion Cliffe examining a kidney patient at Ysbyty Gwynedd Hospital, Bangor. Ms Cliffe has won funding from the Wales Council of Research and Development for Health and Social Care to study the prevention of malnutrition in kidney patients. Studies show that up to 40 per cent of patients are ...
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Move over Oasis
People value health over the bad boys of pop. Cool Britannia has caught people's imagination and is welcomed for embracing the inherent creativeness and inventiveness of the British population, a report published this week by market research group Opinion Leader Research (OLR) says. But people are keen that the emphasis ...
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in person
Ian Cumming (above) has become chief executive of the recently created Morecambe Bay Hospitals trust. He was formerly chief executive of Lancaster Acute Hospitals trust and oversaw its merger with Furness Hospitals trust and Westmorland Hospitals trust to form the organisation he now leads.
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Poll position
Five health professionals who stood for election last May talk to Patrick Butler about their political lives
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on the record
ANDREW CORBETT-NOLAN is director of Health Services Accreditation and deputy chair of the Terrence Higgins Trust. A medieval historian by background, he joined the NHS in 1987. He has led the development of HSA since its inception in a pub in 1991 to its current status as a national programme.
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Villains no more?
It is sometimes difficult to know with this government whether managers are considered part of the problem or part of the solution. Last week's fleshing out of plans for a system of clinical governance under which chief executives will be held accountable for clinical failings is a case in point ...
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NHS faces entire Y2k bill
Trusts and HAs must prepare to be left in the lurch by their insurers on 1 January 2000, according to an NHS Executive report on the year 2000 problem.
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Losing the Commons touch action
Symbolism is always important. How disappointing, then, that party managers from both sides of the Commons are said to have rejected proposals to modernise the debating chamber. Leaving aside pressing constitutional issues, parliamentary weakness and executive dominance, cramped quarters are known to encourage aggression in rats - let alone honourable ...