All News articles – Page 1769
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Inside the labyrinth
As the Modernisation Agency tours the no-star trusts and conducts dozens of other programmes of change, Laura Donnelly battles her way through the organisation's complex structure in an attempt to pin down its role
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Survival of the fittest
Comment : Re-organisation is proceeding despite bizarre mismatch of staff talent
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HA yields to pressure to save elder-care hospital
West Surrey health authority has decided to keep open the 75-year-old Milford Hospital after local consultation and a vigorous campaign from the Liberal Democrats.
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Public health doctors want SHA level director
Public health doctors are calling for a director post to be created in strategic health authorities in a bid to make 'public health targets as important as waiting lists'.
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GPs gain graduate ENT diploma in outpatient skills
The first 18 GP ear nose and throat specialists have graduated with a diploma from Middlesex University, validated by the Royal College of General Practitioners.The year-long distance-learning course was designed to improve diagnostic skills and allow GPs to carry out procedures otherwise done in an outpatient department.Ram Dhillon, consultant ENT ...
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Dear Mel. . .
I have heard some rumours that It is possible there may be some attacks on unsuspecting hospital management teams, by a shadowy hit squad who strike ruthlessly if you do not follow their fundamentalist line to the letter.
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Deacon ousted from health
Scotland's health minister, Susan Deacon, has been replaced by her deputy, Malcolm Chisholm, as new first minister Jack McConnell loses no time in signalling that health is at the top of his agenda.
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Days like this
Families sue over nurse Allitt. . .NAHAT merger call. . .Performance-related pay for ward sisters. . .Privatisation push. . . Junior doctors'hours
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A question of culture
doctors in management : Jeremy Davies canvasses the wards and the offices
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Medical secretaries clinch new pay and grading deal
Medical secretaries at North Glasgow University Hospital trust are claiming victory after they accepted a new offer on their long-running pay and grading dispute.Unison members had resumed strike action after accusing the trust of reneging on an earlier settlement.ACAS was brought in and further talks took place before agreement was ...
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Has Scotland had its chips?
Gillian Kynoch may have a top job - but she's no fat cat.She faces the daunting task of changing the diet of a nation, and, as Barbara Millar discovers, she's a seasoned campaigner
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Trusts must give staff the chance to use their ideas to resolve problems
Letters : Frontline involvement
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No-star trust chair quits as workload pressures mount
The chair of a no-star trust has resigned half way through the three-month probation period it had been given to sort its problems out, with workload pressures likely to have influenced her decision to go.
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Career view mirror
doctors in management : The NHS plan makes a point of strong clinical and managerial leadership.Robert Palmer and colleagues conducted a survey to see how training should be tailored to reach this goal
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DoH and Macmillan in tandem to deliver cancer care networks
In a bid to help deliver the NHS cancer plan, the Department of Health has teamed up with Macmillan Cancer Relief under a three-year partnership to place cancer lead clinicians at every primary care organisation. So far, 279 have been nominated.
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Transfer snags blight PFI pilots
Unions and contractors have warned that the private finance initiative pilots - working on a model for transferring NHS staff to private companies - still face huge problems in agreeing contractual arrangements, despite Unison's acceptance that the pilots can proceed.