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Medical staffing Managers should take an interest
As a pre-registration house officer, I can fully understand why some doctors consider leaving the NHS ('Quick march', page
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General practice: on the way out?
Medical students or young doctors dropping out has become a serious issue. According to them: 'Doctors want to practise medicine but they also want a life.'
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Going for Gold in the Welsh valleys with multidisciplinary primary care
Jo Carlowe's article on medical staffing ('Asian few' page 30-31, 3 December) highlights a major problem facing many of the most deprived parts of Wales. The staffing indicators on the age-profile of GPs make particularly gloomy reading.
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Time to ask: is your meeting really necessary?
I read Alan Bedford's letter (10 December) regarding the constraints imposed by the EU working-time directive with a wry smile. I do not know Alan from Adam, and I am sure his colleagues will tell me he is conscientious and committed, but I cannot help noting that all he is ...
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Crossing the borders
I was interested in the new shared post for the public health director in Solihull (News Focus, page 14-15, 3 December).
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Ministers take their time, while we run to meet consultation deadlines
The time permitted for consultation exercises appears to be shrinking. Traditionally, responses have been sought over three months or more. In at least two recent instances (Partnership in Action and the Caldicott report on guardians), the time allowed has dropped to around six weeks.
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Bottoms up for GPs
Gill Malbon and colleagues ('Onus points', pages 28-29, 19 November) are right to say that GPs are only starting to recognise the implications of clinical governance.
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Make the insurers foot the bill for car crashes
A year ago, the medical records department at the hospital I worked in was instructed to recover money unclaimed from road traffic accidents.
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The NHS's new IT strategy is hopelessly unrealistic
Bill Gates himself would be hard pressed to deliver it
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Parity begins at home
The NHS has traditionally encouraged other bodies to tackle social inequalities. But health services can make a difference directly, not least among their own staff. Jeremy Hawker explains how
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Key points
The NHS can make a considerable contribution to reducing social exclusion and inequalities.
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Long-running fluoride legal dispute ends in climbdown by water firms
Health authorities have welcomed a water industry climbdown on adding fluoride to water supplies.
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Pay review bodies look set to snub government
Recommendations on nurses' and doctors' pay are being finalised this month amid speculation that the review bodies will award at least 5 per cent on basic rates, despite pressure from the government to limit rises to 'affordable' levels.
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NHSnet takes pride of place in Scots IT plan
Scotland's NHS has published its outline plan for modernising its information technology base. The programme closely mirrors the main themes of the English strategy revealed last September.
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Trust two resign
The chief executive and finance director of a community trust at the centre of a police investigation have resigned.
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Signing on
Mechanic Robert Townsend applies national identification markings for emergency vehicles to Royal Berkshire Ambulance trust's fleet. In future, all paramedic ambulances will carry the'battenburg' markings, designed by the police scientific development branch in the wake of Home Office moves to promote an 'instantly recognisable' identity for all emergency vehicles.
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Missed: a motivator
primary care groups; Personal gain and influence have always been the most significant factors driving change in general practice. So, asks Ray Wilcox, how will chief officers in primary care groups cope?