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Community and mental health trust opts to outsource all its IT
HBOC has won a £3.6m, seven-year contract to manage all IT at Chichester Priority Care Services trust. The deal makes Chichester the first community and mental health trust to outsource its entire IT operation.
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Drury steps in to new top post
Peter Drury has been appointed head of the NHS’s information policy unit, a new post carrying a salary of up to £95,000.
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SEMA Group
SEMA Group is to get the contract to build the National Strategic Tracing Service for the NHS Executive. The NSTS will enable administrators across the health service to trace the NHS numbers of all patients in England and Wales from their names and birth dates. SEMA was one of only ...
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Such an old story
From poor law to community care The development of welfare services for elderly people 1939-1971 (2nd edition 1998) By Robin Means and Randall Smith The Policy Press 332 pages £45
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The eagle has landed
Birds of a feather Decentralising public service management By Christopher Pollitt, Johnson Birchall and Keith Putman Macmillan Press 211 pages £14.99
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Medicine: not the best laughter
Seven ages of nursing By Mark Radcliffe NT Books 122 pages £6.50
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Patrick Herbert
Patrick Herbert is the new chair of Sussex Ambulance Service trust. Mr Herbert, a Labour Party member, pursued a career in international and merchant banking. He succeeds Martyn Long, who is retiring.
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Arthur Binns has become project director for the health action zone covering Leicester city.
Arthur Binns has become project director for the health action zone covering Leicester city. He was previously finance director for Leicestershire health authority and is a past chair of the Healthcare Financial Management Association. Mr Binns' previous post has been filled by Kevin Orford, formerly finance director for Nottingham City ...
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Nurses on PCG boards
5 February, London; 12 February, York; 19 February, Liverpool; 26 February, Cambridge; 5 March, Derby
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In person
Derek Smith, chief executive of King's Healthcare trust, is leaving at the end of this month to become managing director of London Underground. He has led the trust for nine years. The trust's director of finance and information services, Patrick Butcher, will become acting chief executive until a successor is ...
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Monitor
There comes a time in politics when you just have to come clean about that shameful secret before someone outs you. So Monitor wants to hear no sniggering now that the man who gave fundholding its academic credibility has admitted his embarrassing and somewhat perverse peccadillo. Yes, former Labour parliamentary ...
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Ready sorted
news focus; Health authority and trust chief executives in the capital have already experienced the forthright management style of Nigel Crisp, the man running the new London region.
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When stuck in a hole, the thing to do is stop digging
Labour's mental health policies may lead to inertia and short-termism
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Bringing in a common currency
Spending on salaries is much the same as spending on patient services