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CALL FOR HELP FROM OTHERS IN SIMILAR SCHEMES
I am the team co-ordinator for health staff in a joint health and social services mental health resettlement scheme.
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DISAPPOINTING TO FOCUS ON WHY PRIMARY CARE GROUPS COULD FAIL...
It was with surprise and disappointment that I read Andrew Wall's article on The New NHS white paper ('From paper to practice', pages 28- 29, 19 February).
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...AND GIVE EXISTING PRIMARY CARE MANAGERS MORE CONSIDERATION...
In Andrew Wall's otherwise excellent article, when he discussed who would manage primary care groups, he comments: 'Such managers can presumably be found from redundant HA staff'. Nowhere does he consider existing primary care managers as being part of the new management arrangements.
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Scots doctors divided on centralisation
Scottish doctors' views about whether services should be concentrated into bigger hospitals vary according to the type of hospital they work in and where they are based.
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Friendly society Does NAFP chair Rhidian Morris's exaltation to fundholders to 'start making these reforms work for you' herald a change of heart towards Labour policy? Mark Crail reports
Fundholders' leader Rhidian Morris last week urged his members to throw off their 'depression' over the abolition of fundholding and 'start making these reforms work for you'.
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Expert tells GPs to recruit high-paid chiefs for PCGs
GPs must recruit high-paid, high-powered chief executives to run primary care groups or watch them founder, a top health policy analyst warned last week.
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...BUT IT'S JUST A CLICHe TO EQUATE COMMITMENT WITH DESIRE FOR CONTROL
Oh no, not again - the tired old cliche about commitment being equivalent to the desired degree of control is trotted out. Andrew Wall treats level 4 as being for the 'ambitious', and levels below for the 'less committed'. He then adds insult to injury by suggesting that fundholding is ...
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heading to come
Tom McCarthy says: 'Community trusts recognise the writing is on the wall. A number have already begun to seek active alliances with GPs to safeguard their organisations. It makes sense because the trusts have the management expertise while GPs have the clinical expertise.'
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Webster urges setting up NHS commission
The NHS's official historian has called for the creation of an NHS Commission to 'challenge received wisdom' and promote ideas for policy makers.
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HA condemns failed merger
A health authority has threatened three trusts with job cuts after two of them refused to merge.
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Ministers welsh on consultation
'Ministers appear to have made up their mind long before the consultation period ended, and... may even have done so before the public and health service had any say in it at all. That is not good enough'
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Plain English Crystal Mark holders include:
Argyll and Bute trust, Central Middlesex Hospital trust, Derbyshire Royal Infirmary, Dumfries and Galloway health board, East and Midlothian trust, Fife health board, Gloucestershire Royal trust, Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster health authority, Lifespan Healthcare trust (Cambridge), Borders General Hospital, Cental Manchester Healthcare trust, Down Lisburn Health and Social Services trust, ...
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Cutting a figure
On Friday and Saturday nights, Birmingham sees a vast influx of young people into the thriving clubs and pubs of the redeveloped city centre.
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Trust signs up to European working times directive
A trust has claimed a first by signing an agreement with staff on issues covered by the European working times directive.
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Health secretary Frank Dobson
Health secretary Frank Dobson, addressing the annual dinner of the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee this week, was apparently stung by criticism by one of the guests that he was boring. The committee named West Sussex health authority non-executive Knighton Berry as the culprit. He was unavailable for comment as the ...
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Management today is full of dsfdfs BY MICHAEL WHITE
John Maples is not a happy man. Though he gets tipped (sometimes) as one of the successes of William Hague's soon-to-be-reshuffled team, he is still smarting over Frank Dobson's reshuffle of 886 seats on NHS trust boards. Details were craftily issued just as Commons health question time ended.