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Early learning
medical education: Sending medical students into primary schools to give lessons about health provides them with early experience of working with children and improves communication skills. Mary Seabrook reports
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Events
Poor performance 15 August, Worthing An Age Concern training course on 'Poor performance and misconduct' is designed for senior staff and managers who have, or are about to take on, responsibility for managing staff and volunteers. The aim is to provide participants with different ways to improve their effectiveness when ...
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Bristol report triggers tussle over blame for clinical failures
Key figures who played a management and supervisory role in paediatric care at Bristol Royal Infirmary were bracing themselves for a damning report as HSJ went to press.
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Draft guidance on care for elderly people focuses on banding system
Health minister Jacqui Smith has issued draft guidance on how free nursing care will be implemented for elderly people in nursing homes in England.
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'Bar-room' deal claims as top posts are promised in SHAs before consultation
Managers have been promised jobs running new strategic health authorities in 'bar-room deals' even before consultation on the new bodies has started, HSJ sources have claimed.
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MSF in turmoil over PPP stance
Prime minister Tony Blair's speech on public service reform this week threw the MSF union into turmoil as its leader appeared to make a U-turn over the private sector's role in the NHS.
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In Brief
Investigators trawling through records at Hammersmith Hospitals trust's breast-screening service have recruited health authorities to track down patients who have still not been contacted about their results.An inquiry was launched earlier this year following an external audit of over 100,000 files where at least 11 recall errors were uncovered.A Commission ...
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NHS 'icon'gets performance role
Margaret Edwards, chief executive of Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals trust, has been appointed to a new post as director of performance for the NHS.
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Crisp's DoH blueprint for the future sees major shift in responsibilities
NHS chief executive Nigel Crisp has unveiled his blueprint for the future shape of the Department of Health, with 'a smaller group of key priorities' and a single top team across health and social care.
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Addition to traffic lights in bid to spare high-profile blushes
The Department of Health has decided to introduce an extra category in the traffic-lighting system as speculation mounts about how it can avoid high-profile managers being associated with trusts that are seen to be failing.
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Standards set to beat racial harassment
NHS employers will be ordered to meet a national standard in a bid to tackle racial harassment, the Department of Health is due to announce today.
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Care trusts on back burner as interest drops
The setting up of care trusts could effectively be shelved as primary care trusts concentrate on the delivery of improved health services, it has emerged.
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Political bias claims continue to dog PCTs
An investigation by the public appointments commissioner has found that measures to correct 'political imbalance' in appointments to primary care trust boards have not worked.
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Personal data complaints on the rise and showing no sign of slowdown
Complaints about how NHS bodies handle data have tripled in the last year and are likely to keep on rising.
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RCN calls for involvement in deciding PPP role
Royal College of Nursing general secretary Beverley Malone has called for the union to be 'at the table when decisions are made'on the role of the private sector in public services.But while other union leaders have been in Downing Street talks on public-private partnerships, Dr Malone has admitted that the ...
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Consultant and nurse vacancies remain stable
Vacancies for consultants and nurses in England have changed little over the last 12 months.The three-month vacancy rate for consultants was 3 per cent in March - a rise of 0.2 per cent on the previous year.And vacancies for qualified nurses, midwives and health visitors fell by 0.5 per cent, ...