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Monitor
Monitor would like to reassure anyone hanging around Heathrow Airport recently that the finance director of the NHS does not normally wander round clutching a Zulu shield. It's just that Colin Reeves had to stand in for Dobbo at short notice on a trip to sell South Africa's health service ...
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NHS told to recruit 1,000 from New Deal
Managers have been given strict deadlines to recruit 1,000 unemployed people into the NHS after official figures revealed a poor uptake of the New Deal welfare-to-work scheme.
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Short Cuts: Coulter leaves King's Fund to join research body
Dr Angela Coulter is leaving her post as executive director of policy and development at the King's Fund to become chief executive of Picker Europe, a not-for-profit research organisation specialising in patients' experiences of health services. The organisation carried out the first national patient survey for the NHS, published last ...
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A dance to the music of time
The detox unit at Holloway women’s prison is offering dance therapy to women trying to withdraw from hard drugs or alcohol addiction. Lucy Goodison and Helen Schafer explain
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Downgrading of public health post condemned as 'setback'
A downgrading of the public health minister post has been condemned as a 'severe setback'.
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NI fundholding to continue until 2001
GP fundholding is to be extended in Northern Ireland 'at least until April 2001' because of the political vacuum caused by the failure to set up a devolved assembly.
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Ex-finance chief ordered to pay up for 'vexation'
The former finance director of a Glasgow trust has been ordered to pay £500 expenses to the trust after an employment tribunal ruled that he had acted 'vexatiously or unreasonably' in his handling of the case.
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Call for annual reports on Saving Lives white paper
The UK Public Health Association has called for annual public health reports on the strategy in the Saving Lives white paper.
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Milburn summit delays heart strategy
Health secretary Alan Milburn has ordered a sharper focus on cutting waiting times for heart disease and cancer patients, but insists that he is not abandoning the government's commitment to hitting its general election waiting-list pledge.
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'NHS zero tolerance zone' campaign
Chin wag: health minister John Denham (left) and Lord Chancellor Lord Irvine sit under posters showing weapons used in attacks on NHS staff, at the launch of the 'NHS zero tolerance zone' campaign, which aims to'underline that violence against staff working in the NHS is unacceptable'.