Latest news – Page 2426
-
News
monitor
Monitor is mourning the loss of the maypole, that joyful, festive and pleasantly obscure symbol of spring that only really diligent historians connect with any rowdy goings on. The international workers movement is best left to overseas nurse recruitment specialists, Monitor feels, with no need to let actual workers go ...
-
News
monitor
Well There is an election on the way and NO mistake! Well, almost definitely, which is good enough for Monitor, who stumbled on the most revealing website the other day. Mrs Monitor was slightly shocked by some of its educational content, and quickly returned to her favourite 'URL' (oh, we ...
-
News
Dear Mel. . .
What do you make of Mr Milburn getting rid of the NHS Executive and binning so many regional offices and health authorities ? Doesn't it sound like the usual pre-election manager-bashing ?
-
News
News in brief
This week at least 20,000 families will learn if organs or body parts of dead relatives have been retained by over 100 NHS hospitals. Professor Margaret Brazier, the chair of the government's Retained Organs Commission, set up in the wake of the report on child organ retention at Alder Hey ...
-
News
Deacon predicts 'radical change'beyond re boards ejigged health
The Scottish health service will see 'radical change' way beyond current plans to create 15 unified health boards, Scottish health minister Susan Deacon told an HSJ conference last week.
-
News
Bart's picks Tayside chief to head trust
The hunt to find a chief executive for Barts and the London trust has ended in the surprise appointment of one of Scotland's leading managers.
-
News
Scots GPs follow English on ballot
Scottish GPs have backed the British Medical Association's decision to ballot GPs on whether they would be prepared to resign from the NHS if a new contract is not in place within a year. Last week's Scottish local medical committees' conference overwhelmingly voted to endorse the stand taken by the ...
-
News
Knives out on primary care representation
A turf war is hotting up between the NHS Confederation and the NHS Alliance as both stake their claim to be the true representatives of all members of the primary care workforce.
-
News
Lords rebellion signals CHC abolition re-think
The government looks set to compromise on the future of community health councils this week, following defeat in the Lords, when opposition peers voted to reform not abolish the patient watchdogs.
-
News
Tatton MP joins fracas over ambulance chief 'scapegoating'
MP Martin Bell is to investigate claims that David Todhunter, chief executive of Mersey Regional Ambulance Service trust, has been scapegoated by a recent inquiry Mr Todhunter, currently on sick leave, was sharply criticised in an independent report commissioned by North West regional office into the handling of the emergency ...
-
News
Pay/grading victory to spur on further claims
Seventy medical secretaries have won their pay and grading battle with Carlisle Hospitals trust following last-minute talks aimed at averting industrial action.