Quick surgery to save the bleeding NHS
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It is vital that the National Health Service (NHS) is dramatically reorganized if it is to survive, according to United Kingdom Secretary of State for Health Frank Dobson. The government is now facing the reality that some hospitals will have to be shut down, but will benefit from the fact that NHS managers now accept hospital closures as an inevitability too. Reorganization will be based around allowing health and local authorities to work together to provide services.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1997
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As the season of suffering looms, doctors should be brought to account
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It is certainly true that the UK's doctors work extremely hard. However, it is also true that many of the financial problems currently facing the National Health Service (NHS) are being caused by the fact that doctors still effectively control the way in which NHS funding is allocated. In most cases, they do not undertake this task very well. There are very large variations in what doctors spend, how they work and how they prescribe. Many are unaware of best practice, and have little motivation to participate in continuous training.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1997
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