All HULL TEACHING PCT articles – Page 4
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Management consultancy is a stressful game - and between Powerpoint presentations and trips to the service station to get more 'business cards' printed there's always a spot of Countdown to keep the grey cells ticking over. Top marks, then, to Crew Services, who promise to take the mystique out of ...
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Healer's digest
Having meals round a table with other people encourages patients to eat more. Heather Hartwell and John Edwards report
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Once bitten. . .
In the third in our series on the government's modernisation plans for the NHS, we look at prevention and inequalities.
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Ambulance staff walk out in dispute over back pay
Hull was left with virtually no ambulance cover for nearly three hours in an unofficial walk-out over back pay that 'frightened' union officials. Unison is now preparing to vote on official industrial action in a dispute over back pay, while Tees, East and North Yorkshire Ambulance Service trust says that ...
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NHS told 'don't give up' on social services
Health authorities and trusts have been urged not to give up on poorly performing social services departments, following health minister John Hutton’s announcement that 17 are failing so badly they are on an ‘at risk’ register.
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Short Cuts: Hutton agrees East Yorks community trust merger
Junior health minister John Hutton has approved the merger of two community and mental health trusts in East Yorkshire. East Yorkshire Community trust and Hull and Holderness Community trust will combine on 1 October to form Hull and East Riding Community Health trust. The decision follows an earlier move to ...
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SMS
SMS looks likely to win a multi-million-pound hospital IT contract in the north of England following Siemens' withdrawal from the two-year tendering and procurement process. Royal Hull Hospital and East Yorkshire trusts had been working together in a project to replace their ageing ICL-designed IRC patient administration systems. Having originally ...
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Writer's 'van' reference drove me to distraction
While I applaud Lynn Massey-Davis' desire to experience first-hand what happens on a night shift in Hull ('Siren voices', 18 March) and accept that she says she 'learned a great deal', it is a pity that she did not learn two fundamentals.