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Help us find where the missing nurses have gone
Many readers will have seen the coverage of our initiative to drop a 'back to nursing' leaflet through all 80,000-plus letter boxes locally (news focus, page 9, 11 February). It has been the most cost-effective method we have so far used to identify potential job applicants.
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Medical school bids flooding in
The government has received a flood of bids from universities eager to win a share of the 1,000 extra medical students promised by 2005.
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Langlands admits reforms mean managers face 'fatigue overload'
The head of the NHS Executive has admitted that managers are facing 'fatigue overload' in trying to implement the latest health service reforms.
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'Deliver clinical governance - or leave'
Chief executives will be 'expected to leave the NHS' if they fail to deliver the government's clinical governance programme, health secretary Frank Dobson warned this week.
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Fraud busters
Fraud busters: Pippa Farrington (right), chief pharmacist at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, looks at a new leaflet issued as part of a government crackdown on prescription fraud with colleague Caroline Fletcher.
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Bristol Royal Infirmary inquiry public hearings begin
Queues formed outside the offices of the Bristol Royal Infirmary inquiry as public hearings started on Tuesday morning.
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'I musn't ever minimise what I am asking people to do'
Over a quarter of the 450 patients at Rampton high-security hospital have no visitors. In July 1997 the Hospital League of Friends patient befriending scheme began, and now has 24 volunteers - all very special people, according to co-ordinator Janet Phillips.
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'Seeing people really grateful because they had a chair made me angry, but also kind of good because I was making a difference'
Nineteen-year-old Neil Higley is planning to study performing arts at university. He first became involved with the League of Friends of Reading Hospitals by taking to the catwalk in a fundraising fashion show.
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Boosted NHS role in jails 'will be costly'
Proposals to increase NHS responsibility for prison healthcare could have 'high-cost implications' for the health service, prison reformers have warned.
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'Act now on our long-term care findings' chair urges ministers
The chair of the Royal Commission on Long-Term Care has urged ministers to act swiftly on his team's recommendations.