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Lord Hunt has his temperature taken alongside Jasmin Khatun, a pupil at Birmingham's Oldknow primary school, during a visit to celebrate Nurses Day.The junior health minister also filled in a worksheet on the human body and learned to take his pulse.A number of trusts organised visits to schools to tell ...
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Highways and law lure two top chiefs
Two of the highest-profile chief executives in the NHS are leaving the health service.
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Head quits over change
The chief executive of a trust at the centre of a national media storm after a patient complained about finding 'do not resuscitate' on her notes has announced he is taking early retirement.
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Survey will seek to address NHS discrimination against disabled
An NHS drive to increase the number of staff with disabilities will include a national survey to establish the extent of discrimination at board level.
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Inquiry spells out new tissue retention codes
Trust chief executives should be responsible for ensuring that staff comply with any new laws introduced to ensure children's tissue is not retained without their parents' consent, according to an interim report by the Bristol Royal Infirmary inquiry.
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Spending on home care rockets
Social services spending on residential and nursing home care has risen dramatically in comparison with spending on community-based services.
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Trusting to luck
A review of health improvement programmes found a wealth of priorities reflecting national policy.But measurable targets were very thin on the ground.Stephen Abbott and Steve Gillam report
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Sitting pretty
GPs are subjected to violence, rudeness and anti-social behaviour almost every week.Yet few practices have a policy on removing patients. Sally Young and Relton Cummings report
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Braking point
The seemingly inexorable rise of prescription costs has been substantially slowed in one primary care group by appointing a medicines management pharmacist who also works in hospital. Elizabeth Reid and colleagues report
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Getting personal
The human effect in medicine: theory, research and practice By Michael Dixon and Kieran Sweeney Radcliffe Medical Press 157 pages £17.95
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ROM with a view
Reconfiguring health services A practical guide for managers Principal author Shirley Ann O'Hara Emap Public Sector Management 128 pages (plus CD-ROM) £85
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Making a world of difference
The global challenge of health care rationing Edited by Angela Coulter and Chris Ham Open University 288 pages £19.99
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Janardan Sofat has been appointed as the new chair of Medway trust. He is a councillor and school governor and until recently was a nonexecutive director ofWest Kent health authority.Mr Sofat succeeds Tony Clayton, who has become dean of Greenwich University's Dartford and Medway faculty.