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Screen and heard
Screen and heard: an Internet cafe in a Rugby GP surgery is aiming to break down the barriers between teenagers and health professionals by encouraging young people to ask questions about their well-being. Visitors are welcome to surf the Net, play games or listen to CDs on the four computers ...
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RCN general secretary
Beverly Malone, previously a deputy assistant health secretary in the US, has accepted the post of RCN general secretary. She will start work next month and will take over from Christine Hancock in June.
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RCN U-turn may fail to placate staff
The Royal College of Nursing's council has agreed to reinstate its original pay formula for staff, but by invoking a clause on affordability of pay awards it looks unlikely to avoid the threat of industrial action.
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A dying shame
One patient dies per week in unexplained circumstances on NHS psychiatric wards. A four-year investigation will attempt to explain and prevent such tragedies in the future, writes Mark Gould
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Doctor know
The delicate issue of patient consent is at the heart of debate over a bill which will empower the health secretary to allow exchange of confidential information. Lyn Whitfield reports
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Spot the difference
The Liberal Democrats are trying very hard to prove they have different health policies from the Labour Party - and that they're bigger and better. Paul Stephenson reports
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Local heroes are where It is at - despite election fever
Press releases spew forth, but the really hot action is not in Whitehall
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Dear Mel. . .
I am very worried about this new consultant's contract business. At my hospital 55 of the 60 consultants (the other five are psychiatrists) have said they'll leave the NHS if the government's new proposals are enforced.
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Dear Mel. . .
I was very worried recently when I read about the manager who was ticked off for sending a memo telling his staff not to show the national cleaning hit squad the 'grotty' bits of his hospital. How should he have acted?
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Days like this
HSJ 7March 1991 : Managers to face psychological 'audit'. . . High salary warning. . . Trust bids to break deadlock. . . Hospitals refuse contracts. . . Hotel beds pioneer
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Short cuts
New frameworks will cover children and neurology Plans to produce two new national service frameworks - one on children's services and one on long-term neurological conditions - have been released by health secretary Alan Milburn. The children's services framework, which will also incorporate maternity care, will be published in 2003 ...
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news focus - Control experiment
Is the Labour government's promise not to privatise clinical services cracking wide open? Ann McGauran reports
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'Chapel' trust settles dismissal claim
The trust in the 'bodies in the chapel' case has settled a longrunning claim for unfair dismissal by a union representative, just days before her employment tribunal was to begin.
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'Local champions'start to make their mark on NHS plan working
A picture of new partnerships and joint working is beginning to emerge from the local boards, committees and taskforces charged with leading on implementation of the NHS plan at trust and health authority level.
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Catch a falling star
With doctors'performance high on the political and media agendas, Martin Roland and colleagues report on how a special panel is tackling poorly performing GPs