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Betaferon results herald renewed funding warning
Clinicians sounded a fresh warning this week over NHS funding constraints after claims that drugs to treat multiple sclerosis could benefit twice as many patients as first thought.
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Better network
For the first of a four-part series on the public health green paper targets, Mark Gould visited Manchester to look at initiatives aimed at reducing suicides
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'Terror team' mastermind was former board manager
A former Scottish health board manager who masterminded a gang which carried out random attacks on strangers was jailed this week for four-and-a-half years.
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DILEMMAS IN MODERN HEALTH CARE Edited by John Spiers Social Market Foundation - READY FOR TREATMENT Popular expectations and the future of health care By Nick Bosanquet and Stephen Pollard Social Mark
The Social Market Foundation may have some difficulty now with its title, and certainly the first volume shows that even its contributors scarcely echo Spiers' bold assertion of the 'successful and growing private sector' in the UK today.
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IN BRIEF
Health secretary Frank Dobson said this week he was 'extremely concerned about the increasing tide of litigation besetting the health service' and that it was affecting the way doctors practised. He told the Commons select committee on public administration that he was looking for ways to 'prevent the health service ...
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IN BRIEF
Unison this week launched a campaign to encourage nurses in Scotland to stand for the Scottish and Westminster parliaments, health and trust boards and for local councils. Aiming for 200 nurses in 'positions of power' by 2000, Unison said nurses would be the biggest single group of staff working for ...
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Bureaucracy: hit and myth
It appears that even the bureaucrats are bureausceptics now. One of the most conspicuous aspects of managers' reaction to the NHS white paper, The New NHS, has been that the proposed pounds1bn cuts in 'red tape' (ie cuts in the number of managers and administrators) hardly rated a mention.1 We ...
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Is Cap'n Dobson set to jump ship to HMS London? BY MICHAEL WHITE
Another turbulent seven days culminating in those weekend reports that, yes, hospital waiting lists are still growing, by 1,000 a week if figures compiled by Lib Dem health spokesman Simon Hughes are to be believed. It is proving just as hard to slow down and reverse the Atlantic liner as ...
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Scottish trust chair 'resigns over cuts'
A Scottish trust chair has resigned, allegedly in protest at planned service cuts.
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GIVE THE PILOT SITES A CHANCE TO FILL IN THE UNKNOWNS OF NHS DIRECT...
I read with interest Jeremy Dale's article on telephone services, ('Wired for sound', pages 24-27, 29 January). His analysis quite correctly draws attention to the yet to be defined parameters for NHS Direct, and the yet to be answered questions on the likely outcome of its introduction. This is why ...
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Union urges parity for Scottish chiefs
Senior managers in Scotland should be brought back into the NHS bargaining framework and their terms of employment overhauled, Unison has told the government.
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Flawed figures claim in Lothian service review
An ambitious plan to reorganise acute services in Lothian faced fresh opposition this week amid renewed claims it is based on ‘flawed’ figures.
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Clinical curiosities
Despite the rapidity of clinical and managerial changes, and the increasing availability of information electronically, there seem to be more books about and for the NHS than ever before. Two of the most popular genres are primers to explain to clinicians the magic and mysteries of management so that they ...
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CRITIC OF OUR HOSPITAL TRUST'S DEVELOPMENT IDEAS CAN COME OVER AND TALK
Allyson Pollock (Letters, 5 February) confuses two processes.
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The curse of Yorkshiregate
The curse of Yorkshiregate continues to cast its malign influence over those caught up in the scandal. Former Yorkshire regional general manager Keith McLean, whose hold on high office became untenable amid allegations that the regional health authority handed out dodgy relocation payments and partied at the tax-payers' expense, was ...
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Remains of the day
Providers should look at new uses for the day hospital in providing comprehensive elderly care
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A different way of doing things
The task of implementing white papers north and south of the border will fall to NHS managers. Barbara Millar reports from Scotland and, below, Mark Crail looks at the challenge in England
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Exchange of views
Exchange of views: Ararat Mkrtichian (centre), minister of health for the Republic of Armenia, discusses health with Barrie Fisher, chief executive of North Yorkshire health authority, and HA vice-chair Tony Culyer (reflected in the mirror). Mr Mkrtichian and Susanna Hayrapetian, head of the World Bank project co-ordination unit, visited the ...
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Financial forecasts 'not up to scratch in a third of trusts'
At least a third of trusts need to improve their financial forecasting, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants warned this week.