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A fighting chance
Fancy a sudden career change? If you do, you're not alone.To add to the NHS's usual recruitment and retention problems, staff turnover and burnout, a select bunch of health service stalwarts are prepared to pack it all in for a stint on Parliament's green benches.By the time you read this, ...
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Why not cull humans too?
'The outbreak of TB begs the question: in what circumstances - if any - might culling of a human population be considered?'
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Days like this
Unions threaten action. . .Valuing lower-paid workers. . .Guy's chief wants to compete with M&S. . .Ministers keen to loosen purchasers'purse strings. . .BMA anger at Major
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Government pledge to review dentists'pay system
The government has pledged to review dentists'pay and working patterns following a report by the Commons health select committee which claimed the current system was encouraging them to quit the NHS.The announcement came as junior health minister Lord Hunt said every NHS dental practice would be offered a share in ...
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Locums 'preying on desperate trusts'
A massive shortage of consultant histopathologists means that trusts are forced to rely on a hard core of sub-standard locums who are putting patient care at risk, senior pathologists have revealed.
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Developing the personal touch
Working with older people and their families Key issues in policy and practice Edited by Mike Nolan, Sue Davies and Gordon Grant.
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Sound effects
Invitation to the dance Dance for people with dementia and their carers By Heather Hill
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Employment head leaves RCN for 'hands-on'HR post
Royal College of Nursing employment relations director Steve Griffin is to leave the union to take up a key NHS human resources post.Mr Griffin, who has been with the RCN for three years, has been appointed executive director of human resources at West Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance trust, which will run ...
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And they're off - they've started so they'll finish
There was a final lull before the election storm broke in all its artificial fury this week, a lull during which we caught a glimpse of the landscape over which the storm will rage for the next four weeks.
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Going nowhere
EU schemes set up to encourage patients to cross borders for treatment have enjoyed little take-up. Jon Sussex looks at the reasons why
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Good to see you, Mr Hill
Downing Street's health policy adviser is a man of mystery and intrigue.
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Scotch guard
Scotland's answer to NICE has at last published some responses to the English body's judgements.How will the Scottish 'context'define its verdicts, wonders Jennifer Trueland
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monitor
Monitor is mourning the loss of the maypole, that joyful, festive and pleasantly obscure symbol of spring that only really diligent historians connect with any rowdy goings on. The international workers movement is best left to overseas nurse recruitment specialists, Monitor feels, with no need to let actual workers go ...
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Slow motion
Failure to force the pace of change in Scotland has been a source of enormous frustration to those on the ground - and to the Scottish health minister.