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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.
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Senior Postings
Valerie Howell has been appointed chief executive of North and East Devon Partnership trust, a new mental health and learning disabilities trust.She was formerly director of the Centre for Mental Health Services Development in Wales and the south west.
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Winning ways
The government wants all trusts to have a patient-advocacy service by next year.Penny Dunman, a patient advocate for seven years, has tips on how to win friends and influence people
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Days like this - HSJ 2 May1991
Extra funds. . . Fundholder queue-jumping . . . 'Haphazard'closures. . . Contraceptive costs. . . NHS print bill. . . £16m services contract
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Lords rebellion signals CHC abolition re-think
The government looks set to compromise on the future of community health councils this week, following defeat in the Lords, when opposition peers voted to reform not abolish the patient watchdogs.
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Tatton MP joins fracas over ambulance chief 'scapegoating'
MP Martin Bell is to investigate claims that David Todhunter, chief executive of Mersey Regional Ambulance Service trust, has been scapegoated by a recent inquiry Mr Todhunter, currently on sick leave, was sharply criticised in an independent report commissioned by North West regional office into the handling of the emergency ...