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For PEATs' sake, be realistic
Teams' hospital tours give hard-pressed managers cause for irritation
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On short rations
As the roll-call of NICE-approved drugs gets longer, health authorities are under increasing pressure to juggle budgets. Jeremy Davies reports
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The tides they are a changing
Governments are constrained by the dominant ideas and beliefs of their day. To change politicians and move in a new direction, one has to set about altering the climate of opinion in which they and the world operate.
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THE PERSUADERS
Name: Stephen Thornton Job: Chief executive, NHS Confederation Style: Was asked to leave school because - young leader in the making - he stood firm and refused to shave off his beard. But recently modernised his chin in clean-shaven Milburn-like style. A keen Baptist - and (a mole tells us) ...
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Yawning gap in perceptions as 'Giggles'Denham struts his stuff
It is funny noticing what really matters to people when the world is crashing down around them. I spent last Saturday at a Fabian Society conference, when Peter Mandelson's world lay in ruins and, rather more literally, so did a sizeable chunk of western India.
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Of mice and moose: a gut feeling over antibiotics out in the field
The bacteriology of moose, deer and bank voles is not a topic often mentioned in the pages of HSJ. When I tell you that a study from rural Finland reported in Nature (4 January) has shown that gut bacteria from the faeces of all three species are almost completely devoid ...
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Orthodox ginkgo study is the scrutiny herbal remedies need
If you're casting around for medical publishing's equivalent to the classic newspaper definition of a non-story ('Small earthquake in Peru, not many hurt') a recent paper in the BMJ (13 January) might seem to fit the bill.
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Cancer screening: technology is there, but the money is not
Screening programmes usually focus on our nether parts: the colon and the prostate. We hear little about the lung. Mindful of progress in screening technology, Malcolm Dalrymple-Hay and Nigel Drury of Wessex Cardiothoracic Centre have used the January edition of the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine to ponder ...
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Divided they'll fall
Health trade unions need to collaborate rather than compete for members. If they do not, says Andrew Cole, they will lose the ground they have gained under this government
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RCN's bid for healthcare assistants
The RCN's decision to open up its membership to healthcare assistants could see the biggest shake-up in the health trade-union movement in a decade. The controversial proposal was overwhelmingly carried by the annual general meeting in October. But it is strongly opposed by a minority.
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Targeting the youth vote
The old adage about catching them young applies just as much to trade unions as to banks. In fact, since the average age of health workers is rising, the battle for younger members is intensifying.
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Trade union membership
RCN: covers registered nurses and students and has just agreed to extend its membership to HCAs and nurse cadets. Membership is 330,000;91 per cent of members are women and 7. 7 per cent are from an ethnic minority. Almost 40 per cent of full members are aged 3544 with a ...