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Strong words
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence may make a positive contribution to the NHS, but it will not eliminate rationing or postcode prescribing, says Christopher Newdick
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Get them while they're young
NHS CAREERS: Meeting school pupils to promote careers in the NHS - and offering them work experience - can be satisfying for staff and may even reduce drop-out rates from healthcare courses. Sue Smith explains
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Concrete action
Local health services in one of London's most deprived boroughs knew they would have to work hard to conduct an effective public consultation on a new primary care trust, write Kate Roe and Hilary Scarnell
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monitor
If There is anything that surpasses Monitor's deep interest in all matters clinically governant, It is his love of literature. So it was with pleasure - and, indeed, awe - that following Northumberland Mental Health trust's recent agony aunt-style guide ('Dear Diary, my girlfriend and I have been going out ...
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Money where the mouth is
At last week's HC2001 conference, junior health minister Gisela Stuart struggled to close the gap between rhetoric and reality on NHS IT. Lyn Whitfield reports
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Costs force trusts to reject scanner offers
Scottish trusts have been forced to turn down new MRI scanners designed to help meet cancer targets because they do not have the money to run them.
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Lord Hunt in hospital safety plea
Junior health minister Lord Hunt has called on trust boards and senior managers to end the 'traditional neglect' of basic hospital safety issues such as cleanliness and infection control.
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Days like this
Health authorities throughout the country are still embroiled in contract disputes as the deadline for implementing the internal market looms on 1 April.
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Blair-faced cheek
Do the Department of Health's political masters wield undue influence on the management of the NHS? Alison Moore dares to ask
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Time to remember
The learning disabilities white paper is being trumpeted as a revolution in care that will bring an end to the NHS's neglect of the forgotten generations. Thelma Agnew reports
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Shrinking violets need not apply
Being a member of CHI's clinical governance review team is not for the faint-hearted. Ann McGauran reports
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It never rains but it pours
Parliament is awash with legislation - recently passed or in the pipeline - that has enormous implications for the health service. Tash Shifrin reports from an HSJ conference that tried to keep delegates afloat
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Framework must be more than good intentions
But its success depends on attitude changes beyond ministers' control
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So farewell, Casualty Watch
Was its success a factor in government determination to abolish CHCs?
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Talking with dinosaurs
'All proposed guidelines from the royal colleges should be evaluated by NICE to avoid illegitimate job creation and cost inflation'
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THE PERSUADERS
Name: Dame Rennie Fritchie Job: Commissioner for public appointments Style: 'Wonderfully human'scourge of cronyism who 'cares very much about the NHS'.Colleagues say she's 'warm, empathetic'and 'absolutely fantastic - everyone falls under her spell', though she has been 'hard-nosed and tough' in pursuing allegations of cronyism.Her scathing report on NHS appointments ...
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Milburn stands to gain as countryside goes to blazes
Did you happen to watch Sunday night's edition of Panorama, Vivian White's film about the state of A&E at St Peter's Hospital outside Chertsey in affluent Surrey? I mention it to contrast its tone with some of the weekend's other media reporting on the NHS as election day approaches.