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All stressed up and nowhere to go?
Heavy workload is often cited as a major cause of dissatisfaction and stress among GPs.
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Seams good to us
Could the roles of hospital specialists and GPs be adapted to provide closer integration, better patient care and decreased waiting times? James Ward and Romesh Gupta report
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Back-to-work basics
Persuading healthcare professionals to return to practice met with remarkable success among one group of trusts. Claire Grout describes how they did it
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Members of the Oxfordshire inter-trust recruitment and retention group
Sharon Barrington Head of physiotherapy services, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre Debbie Christian Professional development nurse, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre June Davies Chief dietitian, Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Nettie Dearmun Principal lecturer/senior nurse, Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals/Oxford Brookes University Anona Glithero Senior nurse, Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Claire Grout Continuing professional development pharmacist, Berkshire & Oxfordshire ...
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Grief encounter
When Helen Easton's teenage son was dying from cancer, she felt isolated in her suffering. Now she is setting up a project to help others in similar circumstances
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The gentle touch
Introducing palliative care Third Edition By Robert Twycross Radcliffe Medical Press 200 pages £18.85
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Funds of all knowledge
GPs and purchasing in the NHS: the internal market and beyond By Bernard Dowling Ashgate 276 pages £39.95
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First among equals
Priority setting and the public By Penelope Mullen and Peter Spurgeon Radcliffe Medical Press 168 pages £24.50
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Action teams to unveil first ideas
The government's modernisation action teams meet in London today to polish their ideas before presenting them to ministers in the next fortnight.
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List-scandal deputy chief resigns
Plymouth Hospitals trust has accepted the resignation of deputy chief executive Martin Cusack with immediate effect.
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Chairs face axe in purge to 'refresh' service
Almost a quarter of Scotland's chairs may be purged by Scottish health minister Susan Deacon in a bid to 'refresh' the service.
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Early-warning plan will target failures
An early-warning system to deal with all clinical mistakes in the NHS will be set up by the end of the year.
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Double trouble: this week's role of shame
The Commission for Health Improvement has been called in to investigate four trusts which employed a locum pathologist who misdiagnosed more than 200 cancer patients.
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In brief: NHS chief executives
Almost 80 per cent of NHS chief executives believe there is a potential conflict of interest between consultants' NHS work and their private practice, according to a Consumers' Association poll. The survey has been submitted to the Commons health select committee's inquiry on consultants' contracts, which starts taking evidence today.
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In brief: Bairbre de Brun
Northern Ireland health minister Bairbre de Brun has officially met the Irish government's minister for health and children, Micheal Martin, at a meeting of the North/South ministerial council sectoral group on food safety promotion and health. The ministers discussed a range of health issues requiring improved cross-border co-operation, including accident ...
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In brief: King's Mill Centre for Health Care Services trust
An independent inquiry into allegations that human organs were inappropriately d isposed of at King's Mill Centre for Health Care Services trust has been ordered by Dr Lindsey Davies, regional director of public health for Trent, following instructions from health secretary Alan Milburn. It will be led by Barrie Atkinson, ...