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SHORTCUTS: Tayside kept waiting in discussions on £8m deficit
Tayside health board will have to wait until April to have further discussion on how to reduce a projected £8m deficit, after the financial information it had requested from trusts was not provided to its meeting last week. The board's £8m deficit is attributable to Tayside University Hospitals trust, which ...
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Ex-manager gets £105k for 'nerves'
A former manager in the Mersey Regional Ambulance Service who suffered two nervous breakdowns in the course of his job has been awarded £105,000 in damages.
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Who's watching?
There is no shortage of pressing topics that could potentially occupy an enthusiastic trust public health director. It is over a year since the publication of the National Audit Office report The Management and Control of Hospital Acquired Infection in Acute NHS Trusts in England.
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Weathering the storm
Extreme climate changes are posing a major challenge for the NHS. Can it cope, asks Lynn Eaton
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Taking the rough with the smooth
The return-to-practice course run by Oxford Brookes University helped Melanie Miller-Smith, 43, to restart her nursing career a year ago, after a 10-year break. Having spent nine years living abroad with her husband and three children, she was eager to get back to nursing when the family returned to the ...
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THE PERSUADERS
Name David Hinchliffe MP Job Chair, Commons health select committee Style Old Labour with added influence. Wakefield MP with mining ancestors going back to 1750s. Not afraid to put matters bluntly, 'as a Yorkshireman. . . 'Not afraid of much else either, as tobacco barons called before the select committee ...
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monitor
Monitor was slow to respond to the advances shown by the Impotence Association, recognising (though not in a judgemental way) that its newsletter, One in Ten, had landed on the wrong desk. Still, 'No-one wants to be Mr Droopy', as Uncle Graham used to say, so before tactfully passing the ...
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Why managers should warm to a topic that may seem remote
Managers grappling with regular bed shortages may not take kindly to being asked if they've paused to consider the consequences of a change in world climate. But someone has to contemplate these things - including Tony McMichael, professor of epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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Worth a second lucre
Gaining in popularity by the year, MBAs are becoming ever more diverse and are meeting the demands for more flexible ways of learning. Barbara Millar reports
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Up to the job: the NVQ story
The government set up the NVQ system in the late 1980s in a bid to 'upskill' the country's workforce and replace a chaotic range of occupational qualifications with a consistent and rigorously assessed set of standards. The standards on which NVQs are based are created by national training organisations, employer-led ...
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Many happy returns
Return-to-practice initiatives for nurses are proving highly successful, but they still have some way to go to understand those who take them. Thelma Agnew reports
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Hush hush Hammersmith
Despite lessons of recent times, screening unit still tried to hide problems
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Government would win the war - but lose the goodwill
Milburn should be wary of alienating doctors ahead of the election
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Giving some microbes a helping hand in the struggle for survival
Now here's a smart way of shielding the body from harmful bacteria: use friendly microbes to do it for you.
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Jobs for the girls
Bradford health authority is working on new ways of developing staff on a multidisciplinary basis - and tackling recruitment problems at the same time. Jan Lee, assistant head teacher at Belle Vue School in Bradford, is on secondment to the HA two days a week. She has set up initiatives ...
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Legal threats suspend regional fix on PCT jobs
North West regional office has been forced to suspend the appointment of new primary care trust chief executives after it faced the threat of legal action after claims that the procedure was flawed.
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Milburn promises first health inequality target
Health secretary Alan Milburn has announced the first national target to reduce health inequalities.