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Happy landings?
The UK is reliant on overseas nurses more than ever, andmany arrive from countries which have shortages of their own, contravening DoH advice. James Buchan reports
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Happy from Tunbridge Wells
Four Filipino nurses tell Alison Moore what brought them to England, how they find nursing here and their hopes for the future
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Time to shape up
Primary care groups and primary care trusts have exciting freedom to decide on their preferred organisational model.
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Current accounts
Little has been done to redress the imbalance in research funding which favours large teaching hospitals at the expense of smaller units, say Anne Lacey and Margaret Fall
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Waste not, want not
Disposing of drugs people bring with them when they are admitted to hospital is a problem that costs the health service dear. Debbie Campbell and colleagues have a solution
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Top of the inform
Managing Knowledge in Health Services Edited by Andrew Booth and Graham Walton Library Association Publishing 368 pages £45
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Speaking louder than words
Handbook of Communication Audits for Organisations Edited by Owen Hargie and Dennis Tourish Routledge 365 pages £19.95
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Assistance for the assistants
NVQs in Nursing and Residential Care Homes (Second edition) By Linda Nazarko Blackwell Science 288 pages £13.99
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in person
Paul Gocke has been appointed chief executive of the new North East London Menta l Hea lth trust , which will take over management of acute and community mental health services provided by BHB Health Care trust, Redbridge Health Care trust and Forest Healthcare trust.He has been deputy chief executive ...
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Dear Mel. . .
We have recently had a consultation exercise with the patients in our practice. Their main concerns are that they don't like children jumping up and down on the waiting-room chairs, and they are frightened of the practice nurse as she grinds her teeth when she is taking blood samples. What ...
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Week-long strike call as Unison members escalate PFI dispute
Unison members have voted for a week-long strike in a further escalation of their dispute over a private finance initiative deal in Dudley.
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Days like this
Nurse suspended. . .More waiting lists. . .HEA alarm at shake-up. . .HAs launch health service lottery. . .Medical laboratory officer overpaid. . .
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Race equality advisers appointed in Wales
Two race equality advisers are to work within the NHS in Wales. Michael Banner and Dee Hines-Johnson are being employed by Bro Taf health authority in posts funded by the Welsh Assembly for two years. Mr Banner has worked on race and equality issues for 12 years. Ms Hines-Johnson has ...