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Paul Gocke has been appointed chief executive of the new North East London Menta l Hea lth trust , which will take over management of acute and community mental health services provided by BHB Health Care trust, Redbridge Health Care trust and Forest Healthcare trust.He has been deputy chief executive ...
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Dear Mel. . .
We have recently had a consultation exercise with the patients in our practice. Their main concerns are that they don't like children jumping up and down on the waiting-room chairs, and they are frightened of the practice nurse as she grinds her teeth when she is taking blood samples. What ...
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Week-long strike call as Unison members escalate PFI dispute
Unison members have voted for a week-long strike in a further escalation of their dispute over a private finance initiative deal in Dudley.
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Days like this
Nurse suspended. . .More waiting lists. . .HEA alarm at shake-up. . .HAs launch health service lottery. . .Medical laboratory officer overpaid. . .
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Race equality advisers appointed in Wales
Two race equality advisers are to work within the NHS in Wales. Michael Banner and Dee Hines-Johnson are being employed by Bro Taf health authority in posts funded by the Welsh Assembly for two years. Mr Banner has worked on race and equality issues for 12 years. Ms Hines-Johnson has ...
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Generics price rise hits NHS for £200m
The full cost to the NHS of last year's jump in generic drug prices has been revealed as £200m.
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Hike tobacco tax, says WHO
The World Health Organisation has claimed that using tax to raise cigarette prices by 10 per cent would 'motivate' 42 million people to quit smoking, preventing about 10 million tobacco-related deaths.
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Days like this
The Department of Health's £4m drive to improve NHS communications is in tatters after events for managers ended in disarray. The exercise was shelved after problems climaxed in a rebellion of managers from North East Thames, who complained that sessions were too simplistic. Consultants hired to conduct the events treated ...
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What a nasty complaint
Changes to contracts, guaranteed appointment times, too few extra doctors. . .GPs are getting down to some serious grumbling on the extra pressures they say the NHS plan will bring to the profession. Ann McGauran reports
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A punishing schedule
The education service has suffered a regime of inspection and scrutiny; now it's the turn of the health service. Tash Shifrin reports
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Your money or your life
The hospice movement, a lynchpin of the voluntary sector, is running out of funds. Its leaders say it's time for the NHS to pay for the care of those who use it. Patrick Butler reports
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Sweeter than Honey
The new chief executive of the troubled London Ambulance Service has come in for universal praise. What's his secret, wonders Laura Donnelly
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New ambulance trust chief needs Ken's capital ideas
Extra funding alone will not cure emergency service's many ills
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Time to give nurses their dues
Promise of high salaries for supernurses is little more than a red herring
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Something off the trolley?
If ever you wanted to analyse the effects of spin, the NHS plan is your opportunity. I read it the day it was announced, printed it off the web, and was overwhelmed by its contents, about 150 pages of ideas.