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Coach outings
The new Leadership Centre For Health will build on previous NHS initiatives to develop management careers, says Barbara Millar
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Clinical depression
An unpublished action plan seen by HSJmakes wide-ranging criticisms of Oxford Radcliffe Hospital trust's accident and emergency services. Claire Laurent wonders if the plan will do anything to stop the haemorrhaging of staff
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Ever-decreasing circles
The appointment of Richard Douglas as the NHS's new head of finance has been greeted with universal approval. But there are tricky times ahead, warns Paul Stephenson
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Chlamydia to be key part of sexual health strategy
The government's long-delayed sexual health and HIV strategy will appear next month as a consultation paper. Michael Adler, professor of genito-urinary medicine at Royal Free and University College medical school, who has led the steering group drawing up the strategy, told HSJ that a roll-out of chlamydia screening - currently ...
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Trust sacks chief cleared of sex offence
A chief executive cleared of sexual harassment at an employment tribunal has been sacked by his trust.
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The rebirth of a career
Mother-of-12 Jeanette Thewlis, 49, has recently returned to midwifery after an absence of nearly 25 years. She left the profession to have her family, and it is her family - in particular, the expense of putting the older children through university - that has prompted her return to paid employment.
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Opposition MSPs claim 'watering down'of free care
Scottish opposition MSPs have reacted angrily to what they see as an attempt to water down the Executive's commitment to providing free care for elderly people. The Executive tabled an amendment to a motion by the health and community care committee, changing a pledge to act upon the recommendations of ...
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Demoralised Scots GPs report more stress and bureaucracy
A survey of almost two-thirds of Scotland's 3,570 GPs reveals a demoralised profession which believes that bureaucracy and red tape are causing organisational chaos within the NHS.
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in brief
Devon's two health authorities have joined with the county council in an emergency aid package to help keep local private sector nursing homes open. Devon social services director David Johnstone said the problem was 'particularly acute'for some specialist homes, which could 'cause major problems to local hospitals'. A jointly financed ...
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The bigger picture
How much of an impact have NVQs had in the health service - and will they be superseded by the new individual learning accounts with their broader outlook? Thelma Agnew reports
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NHS forced to bail out cash-strapped council
Princess Margaret Hospital in Swindon has hit crisis point as two local councils can no longer afford care for elderly people moving into residential and nursing homes. Swindon and Marlborough trust has been forced to buy in beds it has no money for, to bale out the social services departments.
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Breast screening unit at centre of audit 'had no system for picking up on clerical errors'
The breast screening unit auditing over 100,000 files of past patients did not have an adequate system to detect clerical errors, and is one of the only units in the country not to employ a superintendent radiographer to oversee its mammography service.
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A working arrangement
It has been a big year for human resources. Lynn Eaton examines what the NHS plan and the HR strategy mean for training
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One thing leads to another
It is all systems go with the Leadership Centre for Health again, which aims to nurture a new generation of excellence. Lynn Eaton meets the woman setting it up and her deputy
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Milburn gathers plenty of ammunition to 'shoot his Fox'
'Well, well, well, surprise, surprise. ' Dr Liam Fox, the Tory health spokesman and George W Bush lookalike, spoke for the nation when he responded to Alan Milburn's announcement of 29 new hospital building projects in tones of not-so-gentle irony.