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Managed Health Care By Ray Robinson and Andrea Steiner Open University Press 224 pages pounds50/pounds16.99
This excellent book summarises the literature on managed care, as it has been practised in the US, and attempts to extract results and conclusions that could be of benefit to the NHS. As the authors detail, this is a far more difficult project than it might seem at first.
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Just what is an accident?
The green paper definition of an accident as an event which requires a visit to the GP or to A&E is 'interesting', says A&E specialist registrar Andrew Hobart. But he has his doubts.
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Officials accused over complaint
Two Scottish trust officials have been accused of pressurising a patient to withdraw a complaint of sexual malpractice against a consultant gynaecologist.
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HA halts service transfer after threat of legal action
A health authority has stopped the transfer of specialist children's surgery between two London hospitals following a threat of legal action.
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TELEPHONE ADVICE SERVICE NEEDS UNIFIED STRATEGY
Letters about telephone advice (19 February) serve to illustrate the positive and negative aspects of current approaches to health service provision.
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London Ambulance suspends two managers after sackings tribunal
London Ambulance Service trust has suspended two managers following an industrial tribunal finding in favour of two workers sacked after a damning report by the managers into their conduct.
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Joining health and social services 'not on agenda'
Integrated health and social services organisations are 'not on the current agenda', senior Department of Health officials have told MPs.
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DoH alert failed to halt fatal op
An 11th- hour intervention by the Department of Health failed to stop Bristol heart surgeons carrying out a fatal operation on an 18-month- old boy.
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Board approves changes as Lord Ewing speaks out
A Scottish health board this week gave the go-ahead to controversial proposals for service changes over which a trust chair dramatically quit.
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Barbara Kennedy
Barbara Kennedy (above), previously chief executive of Leicestershire Mental Health Service trust, has been appointed chief executive of North West Anglia Healthcare trust, where she first worked as a director in 1990.
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The bat tles of Bottomley
Love her or loathe her, Virginia Bottomley was a woman with crusading zeal. And, as Patrick Butler discovered, she still is
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Calling a bed a bed
When patients, carers and the secretary of state all plead for plain English why does the NHS insist on incomprehensible
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Has Labour been caught red-handed?
According to the Conservative Party trust board appointments show evidence of 'Labour gerrymandering'.
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CHCS HAVE BEEN SURVEYING PATIENTS FOR YEARS
I read with interest Shirley McIver and Philip Meredith's article on the white paper ('There for the asking', pages 26-27, 19 February) as it raised the issue of how difficult it is to get meaningful data from the general public.
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Clarity begins at home
Presenting health service information in the language ordinary people speak and listening to public feedback will do much to improve communication, says Hilary Spiers reports
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A change of body image
Fundholders' leaders have quite rightly come to the conclusion that the model has run its course (see News Focus, page 15). Contrary to their earlier predictions that this would send GPs into an apathetic sulk, however, it seems they have now decided to see the advent of commissioning as an ...
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The Bottomley Years
As health minister from 1989 to 1992, and then health secretary from 1992 to 1995, Virginia Bottomley's years at the Department of Health saw massive change. Among the highlights were...
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IN BRIEF
A report of an inquiry into allegations that senior managers at Tayside health board made 'irregular and possibly unlawful payments' of more than pounds200,000 has been passed to the Procurator Fiscal and the Crown Office. They are expected to decide within two weeks whether to start legal proceedings against individuals. ...