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Royal Free appeals against 'huts for nurses' ruling
The Royal Free Hospital trust has lodged an appeal against a ruling by Camden council that it cannot install temporary accommodation for overseas nurses in the grounds of the trust. Local residents in Hampstead, north London, objected to the hospital's plans to install prefabricated huts on disused tennis courts to ...
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Appeal to candidates for HIV/AIDS debate
The UK HIV Policy Forum, a UK umbrella group of 20 HIV organisations, has challenged the main political parties to address the growing urgency of the AIDS problem. In its manifesto, the organisation calls for guaranteed investment in HIV prevention and protection from discrimination for people with HIV/AIDS. Jonathan Grimshaw, ...
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Tool shortages cause ENT wait-time breach
Patients around the country - many of them children - are having to wait more than the government's agreed time limit of 18 months for surgery, following difficulties buying disposable equipment for tonsillectomies.
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Scottish Parliament signals reluctance to meddle in decision-making at local level
The Scottish Parliament has sent a clear message to trusts and health boards that it will not meddle in local decision-making - provided the consultation process is proper.
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Team-work undermined by fund plans, say finance chiefs
The announcement that the £105m modernisation fund for acute trusts is to be locally controlled by medical and nursing directors has been attacked by finance directors as another central directive undermining managerial team-working.
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Access systems fail on patient 'types'
Health service managers are failing to take account of how different people react to new ways of accessing health services, such as the Internet or NHS Direct, according to research from the Institute for Public Policy Research.
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GMC votes for testing of doctors
The General Medical Council has agreed to ask the government to introduce legislation to ensure that all doctors will have to demonstrate their fitness to practice every five years.
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Days like this - HSJ 30 May 1991
Private healthcare set for boom. . . Managers believe reforms will not solve underfunding. . . Waiting list warning. . . Bed closures restrict training. . . Naming and shaming over hours
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On the ethics border
NHS managers are about to acquire new responsibilities for policing medical research. How will they cope with yet another 'governance', wonders Toni Turner
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Polls apart
Heckling was banned at the RCN's annual congress, whatever the provocation. Tash Shifrin heard the politicians vie for the profession's votes
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In the eye of the storm
How do chief executives cope when their hospital is suddenly thrust into the limelight during the run-up to the election? With calmness and consummate professionalism - apparently.
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A touch of southern comfort?
Paul White, chief executive of Scotland's most troubled trust, has landed the top job at Barts and the London trust - a role that has plenty of potential to be just as much a test of character. Jennifer Trueland met him
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Playing hard to get
The fourth HSJ Management Challenge was predictably tough - but 30 highly competitive teams got plenty out of it, reports Paul Smith
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McCallum's demise is a meddle too far
DoH communications chief is, sadly, only the latest to show her exasperation
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Surely Somme mistake as battle-weary troops hold their ground
You could be viewing this election campaign (still a whole week to go) as a dreary, control freak's dream, every move orchestrated by Labour HQ at Millbank and its rivals. There again, you could see it as a pleasingly chaotic shambles in which things go wrong all the time and ...