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This time it's for real
Joint working has been on the health policy agenda for decades. Now, at last, it is being put into practice. Barbara Millar reports
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List targets: sanctions loom
Managers were preparing this week to hear precisely what 'sanctions' they face if they fail to hit tough new waiting list targets ordered by health secretary Frank Dobson.
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monitor
The mystery of where recently departed University College London Hospitals chief executive Charles Marshall has gone has been solved. Despite wild rumours he was to replace North Thames regional director Ron Kerr, it turns out Mr Marshall is to join the ranks of exNHS managers turned management consultants.
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The nuclear option
Is 'contestability' any better than competition at improving patient care? Mark Crail reports
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Paving the way
Care pathways are a tool to standardise care. Kathryn Riley reports on a survey which found they are commonly being used in acute trusts and private hospitals
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The unequal struggle
Tessa Jowell still has doubts about setting targets on health inequalities, as she told a Manchester conference. Mark Crail joined her on a trip to the North-West frontier
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WEB WATCH
You can't face the British Medical Journal, the Lancet is a real slog, and the New England Journal of Medicine brings you out in a cold sweat. So how are you going to impress all those high-powered consultants with your handy knowledge and easy grasp of the latest cutting-edge scientific ...
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EVALUATING HEALTH INTERVENTIONS An introduction to evaluation of health treatments, services, policies and organisational interventions By John 0vretveit Open University Press 324 pages pounds55/pound
There is increasing emphasis on the need to evaluate what we do and to ensure we do it in the most effective or cost-effective ways. Evidence- based healthcare has focused principally on clinical (especially medical) activities. But the way healthcare is organised, financed and managed may well have as much ...
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11th-hour attempts to save HIV/AIDS centre
Last-ditch attempts to save a purpose-built centre for people with HIV and AIDS from being sold were being mounted this week.
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19 March 1948
The National Association of Administrators of Local Government Establishments has circulated a memo on the NHS Act and draft National Assistance Bill, which make provision for the 'sick' and 'normally healthy aged', leaving a residue which will be the responsibility of local authorities. This consists of the following classes:
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pounds500m cash boost brings total to pounds2bn
Chancellor Gordon Brown this week announced a pounds500m budget boost for the NHS and said it brought Labour's extra investment in health to around pounds2bn since coming to power.
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Managers' leaders welcome pounds500m but warn of longer-term problems
Managers' leaders greeted the extra pounds500m for the NHS as a vital 'first instalment' that would help them to tackle long-term waiting list problems.
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Academic to replace Sir Duncan as head of HSMU
Former NHS chief executive Professor Sir Duncan Nichol is stepping down as director of a high-profile health services management unit - to be replaced by a more 'neutral' academic.
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Headline to come after cartoon in position BY MICHAEL WHITE
By now, you've seen the colour of the chancellor's NHS money, heard all about Welfare to Work initiatives in the service, even seen pre-Budget photos of Uncle Gordon playing with the kids. Someone else's kids to be sure (dammit, it's still someone else's upbeat economy too: Ken Clarke's), but they're ...
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...AND WHILE IT'S A STRUGGLE AGAINST NOTIONS OF 'PROPER' WRITING...
Hilary Spiers poses an important question: why can those working in the NHS not use simple English? Over the past few years I have taught about 400 effective writing courses in various parts of the health service, and I am constantly having to fight the notion that anyone who uses ...
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HA appoints public health director at last
A health authority without a public health director since 1995 has at last made an appointment.