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    Confederation is meeting devolution head-on

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    Letters

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    Complaints flourish when communication fails

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    Letters

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    All stressed up and nowhere to go?

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    Heavy workload is often cited as a major cause of dissatisfaction and stress among GPs.

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    Seams good to us

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    Introducing palliative care Third Edition By Robert Twycross Radcliffe Medical Press 200 pages £18.85

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    Funds of all knowledge

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    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

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    Priority setting and the public By Penelope Mullen and Peter Spurgeon Radcliffe Medical Press 168 pages £24.50

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    In Person

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    Caroline Wigley became chief executive of Birmingham Women's Health Care trust on 1 June. She has worked in the health service for 23 years and been director of operations at City Hospital, Birmingham, since 1996.

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    Events

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    Items are entered free for public sector, voluntary and professional organisations, but we need at least six weeks' notice of your event. Please send details to Uli Jaeger, HSJ , Greater London House, Hampstead Road, London NW1 7EJ. Fax: 020-7874 0254.

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    Action teams to unveil first ideas

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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 ...