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Management consultancy is a stressful game - and between Powerpoint presentations and trips to the service station to get more 'business cards' printed there's always a spot of Countdown to keep the grey cells ticking over. Top marks, then, to Crew Services, who promise to take the mystique out of ...
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Dear Mel. . .
Our hospital social club has just started running 'exotic' entertainment evenings. On Tuesdays it's a hen night for the ladies with male strippers and so on, while Thursdays are stag nights for the lads with the female variety. The club makes quite a lot of money which it donates to ...
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Regular consumers of this page may remember one Dr Tara Fields, a lady doctor and Yankee to boot. (In the interests of Monitor's continued fight against institutional jokes about people not from round here, it should be noted that violence against Americans is reckless and not much fun. ) But ...
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'Climate of fear' mars push to create PCTs
The government is at risk of 'derailing' its own reform of primary care, according to research by the NHS Alliance.
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Nurses to ballot over on-call pay
Managers at a landmark private finance initiative scheme in Carlisle are facing industrial action from staff in three departments.
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Days like this
Internal market and waiting times. . . Funding to remove patients from lists. . . Trust applications. . . Limited powers for HAs. . . And CHCs
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A dose of scepticism
As pressure groups, drug companies and others express their doubts about the National Institute for Clinical Excellence, Lynn Eaton meets its beleaguered chief executive
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Empowerment to the people
Professor Aidan Halligan insists he's not one of the great and the good, but he tells Kaye McIntosh that his clinical governance support team is about delivering a 'patient-centred, staff-owned quality health service'
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Mind how you go
Speculation about Scottish health minister Susan Deacon's future continues apace. Colin Wright reports
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Paddington plans laid bare
An ambitious scheme to transform heart and lung services at one site in west London will shake up hospitals in the capital. Laura Donnelly reports
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In the wars
After a growing number of horrifying attacks on hospital staff, trusts are getting tough with their assailants. Phil Coleman reports
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Time to turn the tables and give NHS data it deserves
Performance indicators are essential part of service's accountability
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Shhhhhh, whisper who dares. . .
. . . but increase in manager workforce is cause for celebration
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Retro chic rules the roost
Sometimes it seems as if the NHS is not so much being modernised as going back in time - a case of 'back to the future'.
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WEB WATCH
If you want to know whether the porters at Huddersfield trust have been trained in safe ways to lift and handle patients or equipment (they have), or whether Royal West Sussex trust can claim that its discharge care planning documents are an integral part of its clinical records (not yet ...
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Damned by the Dame who looks down from on high
When Tory MP Graham Brady rang to say he'd just held a revealing debate on patronage in health boards, I commiserated. That was all well and good, but didn't he know that Tony Blair had just staged a rare press conference, White House-style, at Number 10? Or that ministers were ...