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Five ambulance trusts to go in northern region reconfiguration
Five ambulance trusts could disappear under reconfiguration proposals commissioned by health authorities in Northern and Yorkshire region.
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Operations cancelled as workers strike over 'multiskilling' job losses
Hundreds of non-urgent operations were cancelled this week as staff at University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff went on indefinite strike in protest at jobs cuts caused by a contracting-out deal.
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IHSM losses mount as turnover plummets
The Institute of Health Services Management crashed to a pounds180,000 operating loss last year as turnover dropped below pounds2m for the first time in six years and membership continued its slow downward spiral.
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No going back
health secretary Frank Dobson opened a new primary care and community health centre in his Holborn and St Pancras constituency last week. Camden and Islington Community Health Services trust has now been able to move existing services out of hospital. Mr Dobson is pictured with GP Iona Heath.
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Trust chair checks law after hepatitis op case
A trust chair is considering a legal challenge to guidelines that allow doctors carrying communicable diseases to perform operations.
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Forum to unite quality groups in healthcare
A forum bringing together national organisations offering accreditation and other quality assurance services in healthcare is to be launched next month.
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Juniors praise Milburn on time, jobs and food
Health minister Alan Milburn won a standing ovation from junior doctors last week with promises to take further action on working hours, improve access to part-time consultant posts and provide better food in trust canteens.
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Campaigners win battle over mixed-sex unit
A trust ordered to abandon plans to build a new mixed-sex unit for mentally ill patients has set up a working party to hammer out a design with single-sex facilities.
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A gender for change
Back in 1991, the Department of Health, acting on behalf of the NHS, became the first government department to sign up to Opportunity 2000.
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Barbara Stocking: 'Discrimination gets easier to handle with age'
Barbara Stocking is the NHS Executive's regional director for Anglia and Oxford. She warns women trying to make it to the top that they can expect to run up against discrimination.
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Christine Hancock: 'The first time I played in a boy's world'
Royal College of Nursing general secretary Christine Hancock became district general manager of Waltham Forest HA in 1985. She was the first woman nurse to secure the post and one of the first women to reach that level. But getting there was not plain sailing.
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Rosalynde Lowe: 'It would be very difficult with young children'
Rosalynde Lowe, chief executive of Hounslow and Spelthorne Community and Mental Health trust, recommends that women aiming for the top have children early, so they are grown up by the time they reach senior leve.
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Jobs can be made for sharing
Sue Williams and Sue Osborn work for Barking and Havering health authority and have the only chief executive job-share in the NHS.
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Hilary Pepler: 'All the other chief executives are men'
Hilary Pepler, chief executive of North Mersey Community trust, says: 'You have to create a culture where people feel it's all right to leave a meeting early to go to a parents' evening at your child's school - but it must apply to men as well as women.
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Sue Machell: 'It's harder for women in a hospital'
Sue Machell, chief executive of Croydon Community trust, accepts that there is a different culture in the community.
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Anne Williams: 'I'm a better manager because of my children'
Anne Williams, chief executive of the Surrey Hants Borders trust and the mother of six-year-old twins (pictured right), admits: 'I was a bit of a workaholic before I had kids but I didn't see the service through the eyes of a user. Having young children gives you an insight because ...
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King's Fund overspends by pounds2m
The King's Fund overspent its budget by more than pounds2m last year as changes brought in by new chief executive Julia Neuberger began to take effect. But it still has investments worth pounds150m to cushion the blow.