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Successor to 'irreplaceable'Reeves is a former finance deputy director
The NHS Executive has appointed Richard Douglas, one of its former deputy finance directors, to replace outgoing director Colin Reeves.
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RCN reneges on staff pay award while in talks over improved deal for top job
The Royal College of Nursing has been accused of being 'insensitive' to its staff, following its decision to cut an agreed pay award for its workforce while negotiating an improved pay package for a new general secretary from the US.
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Bristol report 'withheld' until after election
The Bristol inquiry has announced that its final report will not be completed until the end of March, when it will be sent to health secretary Alan Milburn.
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monitor
Well, Monitor has learnt something new this week! And hacks and hackettes of the good ship HSJ are kicking themselves after their sister magazine beat them to the scoop of the century. In a revelation worthy of Woodward and Bernstein, Nursing Times uncovered the TRUTH about nurses and sex. Apparently, ...
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Troubleshooters rally support for NHS Direct
A new troubleshooting team will rally support for government plans to make NHS Direct the single point of access for all out-ofhours services.
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£27m in GP clawback suspended
The government has suspended this year's clawback of £27m in GP overpayments in return for improved patient services and a review of the complicated GP payments system.
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Days like this
Some trusts have revealed they plan to impose individual contracts on consultants.The Department of Health said all trust staff could increasingly expect to have performance targets written into their terms of service.Joint consultants'committee chair Paddy Ross defended national conditions of service, agreed in 1948, as they ensured equal distribution of ...
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The price is right?
With trust chiefs getting a 6 per cent pay rise, you'd think they'd be laughing.But a new pay and conditions survey suggests the truth is something more sober.Mark Gould reports
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Highs and lows - what the survey reveals about pay
While ambulance trusts came out as the lowest average payers, the biggest single pay rise last year went to Gron Roberts, chief executive of Essex Ambulance Service trust, who received a 21.8 per cent pay hike.
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Directory inquiry
Patients'views are now supposed to be central to the NHS.So why have they had no input into the health service's new guide? Claire Laurent reports
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A job That is Taylor-made
The new choice as deputy NHS chief executive has been welcomed by managers and unions.Ann McGauran finds out why
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Slow the pace of reform - or find the money
With only months before poll day, NHS problems are piling up for Labour
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A fig-leaf to cover confusion
Hinchliffe amendments could defuse embarrassing CHC abolition row
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Four cheers for disruption
Once upon a time it used to be thought that the NHS was unassailable. Even hard-line Conservative ministers came unstuck in their ill-advised attempts to persuade the public that better healthcare systems were available. But under New Labour, the NHS has never looked more frail and vulnerable.
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THE PERSUADERS
Name Chai Patel CBE Job Chief executive, Westminster Health Care plc Style New Labour's favourite private healthcare operator, and 'without question, the best networker'in the sector.
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MPs ponder Pooled resources as Gisela tries some figurative painting
Oh dear, Tony Blair is in trouble with Gordon Brown again for shooting his mouth off. No, I am not referring to his admission at question time that the government's 'five economic tests' on the single currency will be examined within two years of the coming election (if Labour wins).