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Days like this
Change medical training, says King's Fund. . .Qa business services make loss. . .
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Trust's open culture praised
The Commission for Health Improvement has praised the 'open culture' of Pinderfields and Pontefract trust, and flagged up its efforts to collect information about risk. It also spoke highly of the trust's attempts to train and educate staff.
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Changing the culture:
Changing the culture: patient advocacy service, Brighton Penny Dunman has worked as patient advocate at Brighton Healthcare trust for over seven years.During that time, she has championed the concerns of many patients and helped to defuse a few time bombs.
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A change is as good as a rest
Health professionals who choose to work in another country get experience of widely divergent health systems - and that is just within the UK, reports Jennifer Trueland
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A poisoned chalice
Social workers get a bad press and are sometimes put in impossible positions.Mark Gould examines their plight on the eve of a major restructure and integration of social care with the NHS
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do not waste your time and cash on the public - just consult me instead
MACHIAVELLI CONTINUES HIS BLUFFER'S GUIDE TO MANAGING THE NHS
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St Helier buys time to revive fortunes
The trust which was the subject of the Commission for Health Improvement's most damning report to date has been given extra time to put together an action plan to turn its fortunes around.
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Nurses slam overseas students' bursary cut
Unions fear that nurse recruitment will be hit by the government's withdrawal of bursaries for overseas students on nursing diploma courses.
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News in brief
Professor Ray Jones, director of social services for Wiltshire county council, has been appointed chief executive of the newly created Social Care Institute of Excellence, a not-for-profit company which will evaluate developments and produce guidelines on best practice in social care.
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Research in trouble both sides of pond
Are medical errors responsible for as many deaths as believed; how easy is it to predict the future of healthcare; and why are so few doctors embracing scientific research? This month's column examines these issues
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Beleaguered breast-screening unit shaken by top-level resignation
The manager of the imaging directorate which runs a breastscreening unit under investigation by the Commission for Health Improvement has announced her resignation.
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Managers cautious as Milburn backtracks on foreign care
Health service managers have expressed caution over moves to allow patients to receive treatment paid for by the NHS in other European countries.
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Sexual assault case triggers calls for change to complaints system
An investigation into shamed GP Peter Green, who was jailed for eight years for sexually assaulting patients, is expected to call for changes to NHS complaints procedures and moves to strengthen GP accountability.