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Serving from the shadows
It's not always a fair and open process, nor is it always straightforward. Judith Smith and colleagues report on appointments to PCG boards
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Service of all talents
Job opportunities in the health service for people with learning disabilities are growing - and proving beneficial to employer and employee, writes Harriet Gaze
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Turning up the volume
London's large Bengali population is benefiting from a local Bengali-speaking audiology services worker. Brian Hall and Dr Tony Sirimanna report
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Don't look now
In the face of the national shortage of laboratory services should doctors restrict their requests for tests, asks David Garrioch
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in person
Peter Coles , acting chief executive of Forest Healthcare trust, is to become chief executive of the new Whipps Cross Hospital trust when it is formed next April. The new trust will manage the general hospital services currently run by Forest Healthcare. Mr Coles was previously chief executive of the ...
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Talks begin on body to scrutinise social care
The government has launched a consultation exercise on proposals to end the 'postcode lottery' of social care by creating a new body equivalent to the National Institute for Clinical Excellence.
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Minister steps in to organ row
Scottish health minister Susan Deacon has agreed to meet parents and relatives of babies and children whose organs were removed and kept by an NHS hospital.
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Firm under attack for costs will bid for TV and phone contract
One of the prime contenders for a multi-million-pound contract to provide a television and telephone at every NHS bedside has been criticised for the cost of the service already provided at some hospitals.
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Nursing unions to call for major pay increase
Unions are to call for a 'substantial'pay rise for nurses and midwives in evidence to their pay review body next month, amid warnings that the workforce is 'still in decline'.
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HA board could face 'coup' by community
Lincolnshire health authority leaders who faced a referendum calling for them to stand down are now being threatened with a 'coup' by community-nominated replacements.
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Specialists to aid GPs with asylum seekers
Leicestershire health authority has promised to bring in a team of specialist nurses and link workers to help GPs cope with an influx of more than 400 asylum seekers, many with serious mental and physical illnesses.
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Days like this
Health authorities will not have completed genuine separation of their purchasing and providing functions by the government's deadline of next April, according to King's Fund fellow Chris Ham. He predicts it could take three years. His report for the NHS Management Executive, Holding on While Letting Go , says: 'It ...
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Something completely different
The NHS plan could be the death knell for regional offices, or it could mean they'll be busier than ever. Mark Gould assesses their future
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Health managers to allocate budgets for CJD care
Chief medical officer Professor Liam Donaldson has advised health managers to use Health Act powers to create pooled budgets that can be 'activated when necessary' to care for Creutzfeldt Jakob disease sufferers. In guidance for healthcare workers on dealing with the disease, Professor Donaldson says patients with degenerative conditions, such ...
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Police reject leukaemia death protest against
Liberal Democrat MP and Isle of Wight GP Peter Brand is to face no further action over remarks he made in the House of Commons in January during a debate on the proposed Medical Treatment (Prevention of Euthanasia) Bill, which subsequently failed. Hampshire police received a complaint after Dr Brand ...