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Professor Ray Jones, director of social services for Wiltshire county council, has been appointed chief executive of the newly created Social Care Institute of Excellence, a not-for-profit company which will evaluate developments and produce guidelines on best practice in social care.
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Number of SHAs drops to 28 as consultation begins on outline
The NHS will next week begin a 12-week consultation on the shape of 28 strategic health authorities.
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'Failure' of acute trusts seen as ruse to ease their demise
The apparent failure of many of Scotland's acute trusts to keep within budget could hasten their demise, senior managers claimed last week.
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Beleaguered breast-screening unit shaken by top-level resignation
The manager of the imaging directorate which runs a breastscreening unit under investigation by the Commission for Health Improvement has announced her resignation.
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Nurses slam overseas students' bursary cut
Unions fear that nurse recruitment will be hit by the government's withdrawal of bursaries for overseas students on nursing diploma courses.
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New panel head faces remit flak
Junior health minister Hazel Blears has announced that GP and former Trent regional chair Dr Peter Barrett will chair the new independent reconfiguration panel.
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Days like this
Change medical training, says King's Fund. . .Qa business services make loss. . .
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monitor
The bon viveurs among you may have noted that Monitor knows how to have a good time. And few moments in the calendar are more exciting than that anticipatory rush of blood that marks the start of the conference season. Ooh, yes! Just look what's dropped through Monitor's letterbox! There ...
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A poisoned chalice
Social workers get a bad press and are sometimes put in impossible positions.Mark Gould examines their plight on the eve of a major restructure and integration of social care with the NHS
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A change is as good as a rest
Health professionals who choose to work in another country get experience of widely divergent health systems - and that is just within the UK, reports Jennifer Trueland