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What tune best sums up the primary care group challenge? Eschewing the obvious Money (or even Money, Money Money), maybe Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown would fit the bill. Not for Bexley and Greenwich PCGs, where visitors to an online PCG theme competition have inexplicably plumped for the theme tune from Neighbours ...
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Long-time critic of vested medical interests
If health secretary Frank Dobson was looking for someone who would be unafraid to deliver hard messages from the Bristol inquiry, he did well to choose Ian Kennedy.
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Short cuts End of term as two regional chairs step down
Two NHS regional chairs will be standing down at the end of their current terms on 1 November. In a written answer to MP Geraint Davies, health secretary Frank Dobson said Professor Alasdair Breckenridge, chair of North West region, will stand down to concentrate on his role as chair of ...
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Short cuts BMA pushes for children's commissioner post
The British Medical Association has called for the government to establish an independent children's commissioner in a bid to improve the UK's 'poor record' on child health. A BMA report says the UK ranks 18th in a table of countries for deaths in early childhood, while social inequalities are 'marked' ...
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Short cuts Rise in number of nurses and midwives coming to UK
The UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting has reported a 'huge increase' in the number of overseas nurses and midwives coming to the UK. Provisional figures for 1998-99 show a 38 per cent increase in the number of people from abroad applying for registration, from 5,946 to ...