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Winning ways
The government wants all trusts to have a patient-advocacy service by next year.Penny Dunman, a patient advocate for seven years, has tips on how to win friends and influence people
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Going nowhere
EU schemes set up to encourage patients to cross borders for treatment have enjoyed little take-up. Jon Sussex looks at the reasons why
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A box of delights
Clinical governance A practical guide for managers By Lesley Hallett and Maura Thompson
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Developing the personal touch
Working with older people and their families Key issues in policy and practice Edited by Mike Nolan, Sue Davies and Gordon Grant.
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Sound effects
Invitation to the dance Dance for people with dementia and their carers By Heather Hill
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Senior Postings
Valerie Howell has been appointed chief executive of North and East Devon Partnership trust, a new mental health and learning disabilities trust.She was formerly director of the Centre for Mental Health Services Development in Wales and the south west.
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Monitor is mourning the loss of the maypole, that joyful, festive and pleasantly obscure symbol of spring that only really diligent historians connect with any rowdy goings on. The international workers movement is best left to overseas nurse recruitment specialists, Monitor feels, with no need to let actual workers go ...
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Well There is an election on the way and NO mistake! Well, almost definitely, which is good enough for Monitor, who stumbled on the most revealing website the other day. Mrs Monitor was slightly shocked by some of its educational content, and quickly returned to her favourite 'URL' (oh, we ...
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Dear Mel. . .
What do you make of Mr Milburn getting rid of the NHS Executive and binning so many regional offices and health authorities ? Doesn't it sound like the usual pre-election manager-bashing ?
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News in brief
This week at least 20,000 families will learn if organs or body parts of dead relatives have been retained by over 100 NHS hospitals. Professor Margaret Brazier, the chair of the government's Retained Organs Commission, set up in the wake of the report on child organ retention at Alder Hey ...