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Light touch
Light touch: baby Zainab Bharwani and link worker Bimla Karra experience a multi-sensory room at Birmingham Community Children's Centre, while Zainab's mother, Shahnez Miah, looks on. The centre includes a clinic, therapy room, soft play area and facilities for local children and children with special needs.
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Welcome for report despite 'soundbite' summary
Managers have welcomed an independent report into Glasgow's Victoria Infirmary while criticising its summary as 'couched in soundbites'.
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HA slims down to fund PCGs
A health authority is to disband its commissioning department to fund primary care groups.
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Days like this
Internal market attacked as 'Maoist', 'eccentric', 'poorly managed'... true cost of white paper... waiting lists grow
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Vroom with a view
Look out at the car park adjoining the admin block of a typical trust and it should be possible to tell which car belongs to which manager. A VW Passat or Landrover Freelander - that will be the chief executive's. BMW 300 Series or Rover 620 - it must be ...
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The costs of change - financial implications of the Fallon recommendations
The costs of change - financial implications of the Fallon recommendations
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WEB WATCH MARK CRAIL
If you drink, smoke, take drugs or otherwise muck around with your health and are not prepared to give up those bad habits, you would be advised not to fall ill in Andover.
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Talks shambles kicks new pay system into touch But protracted delay runs risk of fuelling unrealistic expectations
There would appear to be little chance now of a new pay system for the NHS during the lifetime of the present parliament. It is true to say that even The New NHS white paper talks about restoring a national pay system only as a 'longer-term' objective, but last week's ...
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OT to trot - keeping in step with clients' needs
I read with interest, Annie Phillips' article 'Out of step' (page 25, 25 February). I agree wholeheartedly that social workers do work in an empowering way, but to say this was 'virtually unheard of in medicine' takes no account of healthcare professionals who do work with clients in an empowering ...
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PFI is handy smokescreen for opposing change
'Building anxiety' (special report, 4 March) was a good try at summarising the private finance initiative debate.