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Towards the ideal
The NHS was a role model for American health professionals. How has the NHS plan affected its perception in the US in different times? Howard Berliner reports
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No more heroes
The requirement for a leader to be a charismatic superman was one of the mythologies debunked in a major survey on qualities needed at the top. Beverly Alimo-Metcalfe and Robert Alban-Metcalfe report
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No more lonely heroes
Incoming IHM president William McKee attacked 'naming and shaming' and 'red lights' in his inaugural speech to the institute.
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Fuel and health
After an NHS-wide red alert as a result of the direct action cutting off fuel supplies it may seem perverse to suggest some positive economic - and health - reasons for high fuel prices. But here goes.
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Women's federation opposes sub-consultant grade
The Medical Women's Federation has 'strongly rejected' NHS plan proposals to introduce a sub-consultant grade. It says implementation of the 'proposed employment bondage would seriously damage the national recruitment drive', and warns that 'women doctors know from bitter experience who will fill such posts'. It also suggests that contract changes ...
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False start
With clinical governance beginning to bite, most trusts still seem unready for the cultural changes needed, write Kieran Walshe and colleagues
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Lord Hunt should lie down and think of England
It's wrong to back-track on fluoridation, whatever the rights lobby says
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Doctor entitled to reject job
An Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has set aside a finding by an employment tribunal that a doctor did not act unreasonably in refusing a suitable alternative job offer after he was made redundant, and was therefore entitled to redundancy payment.
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Mind report seeks to dispel 'myths' over homicides
Mental health charity Mind marked world mental health day on Monday with the publication of a report designed to 'explode the myths' surrounding dangerousness and the link with mental health problems. Its figures from a 1999 study show that 95 per cent of homicides are committed by people without mental ...
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More Londoners are killed by pollution than die on roads
A report launched at the first meeting of the London Health Commission, set up by mayor Ken Livingstone, today claims that more people die from transport-related pollution than road accidents in the capital.
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Dentists receive first wave of payments for loyalty
The first payments to reward dentists working in the General Dental Service 'for their commitment to the NHS' will be made this week. The scheme gives additional monies to dentists aged 35 and over who have worked at least five years in the last decade and received gross earnings of ...
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Denham launches 'zero tolerance'plan on violence
The Department of Health has launched guidance on tackling violence in mental health, ambulance, community and primary care settings, 'where staff are most at risk of attack'. Launching the guidance, health minister John Denham said he was 'determined'to turn the NHS into a 'zero tolerance zone'for violence. The guidance lists ...
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Days like this
Shadow health secretary Robin Cook told the Labour Party conference: 'The Tories have had 10 years to run down the NHS, and it will take time to put it right. But we are determined to do it. 'He stressed this would not be an easy job, and it could take ...
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UK and EU courts rule on pensions
NHS pension scheme rules which provide for a survivor's pension for a widow or widower but not an unmarried partner are coming under challenge in both the UK and European courts.
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New credo, new code
IHM chief executive Stuart Marples this week urged managers to put aside 'command and control' management and adopt a 'new credo in which they would be guides' to develop their staff.
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Trust chief under fire
The chief executive of South Warwickshire General Hospitals trust has been suspended while an investigation into 'certain administrative procedures'- understood to mean waiting lists - takes place.