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Strain spotting
COUNSELLLING SERVICES: One acute trust has set up a counselling team for staff and patients to ease the stress of the hospital environment.Greg Madison explores the benefits of such an arrangement
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IN PERSON
Wendy Saviour is the new chief executive of Melton, Rutland and Harborough primary care trust.She was director of strategic development at Lincolnshire health authority.Mike Alexander has also been appointed as director of finance for the trust.He was acting chief executive at the PCT on secondment from United Lincolnshire Hospitals trust, ...
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EVENTS
Meet the new president 25 September, Hertsmere Hertsmere primary care trust is hosting a half-day nursing event featuring Jonathan Asbridge, president of the shadow nursing and midwifery council which will take over from the UKCC in April 2002. Other speakers include Hertsmere PCT director of nursing and intermediate care Marian ...
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Hazard lights
OPEN SPACE: We should accept risk and imperfection in the health service.After all, says Stephen Pattison, It is no less than what we do in the rest of our lives
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Back on track
NEWS FOCUS: John de Braux, the manager given the task of reviving the trust dubbed 'Britain's worst', is used to a challenge.But That is only to be expected from someone who once worked for British Rail. Mark Gould Reports
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Master the art of apology without ever having to say you're sorry
MACHIAVELLI'S REAL-LIFE DILEMMAS: MACHIAVELLI CONCLUDES HIS BLUFFER'S GUIDE TO MANAGING THE NHS
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Out of sight, out of mind
NEWS FOCUS: Moves are being made to put prison health services on the straight and narrow.Laura Donnelly joined prison service director general Martin Narey on a visit to one prison struggling to turn its service around
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Dear Mel. . .
Due to cash shortages, one of our nurses decided to earn some extra money doing some 'modelling'. The nurse concerned was very good at it (or so I am told) and now there are naked pictures all over the porters' lodge. What should I do ?
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A shotgun marriage
NEWS FOCUS: What is stopping trusts from reaching long-term agreements with private healthcare providers? Information about the concordat is difficult to come by, so Ann McGauran took a closer look
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Temporary setback
NEWS FOCUS: Bank and agency staff are often inexperienced and ill-prepared for the task, says the Audit Commission.And they are costing too much.Paul Stephenson reports
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Public pain , private gain
PUBLIC - PRIVATE PARTENERSHIPS: Public-private partnerships have stirred up much controversy, but Karen Bryson and colleagues defend one project in which seven private hospitals treated 1,000 NHS patients who had been waiting over a year