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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Weathering the storm
Extreme climate changes are posing a major challenge for the NHS. Can it cope, asks Lynn Eaton
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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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Obesity epidemic kills 30,000 each year as costs top £485m
An obesity epidemic is costing the NHS in England at least £480m a year, with costs to the wider economy probably in excess of £2bn, the National Audit Office has revealed.
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£27m in GP clawback suspended
The government has suspended this year's clawback of £27m in GP overpayments in return for improved patient services and a review of the complicated GP payments system.
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Highs and lows - what the survey reveals about pay
While ambulance trusts came out as the lowest average payers, the biggest single pay rise last year went to Gron Roberts, chief executive of Essex Ambulance Service trust, who received a 21.8 per cent pay hike.
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Bristol report 'withheld' until after election
The Bristol inquiry has announced that its final report will not be completed until the end of March, when it will be sent to health secretary Alan Milburn.
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Patients' groups angered by exclusion
Two major patients' organisations have expressed anger after they were left out of a Department of Health advisory group drawing up new guidance on getting patients' consent to treatment.
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Trust apologises over defence-agency skin sales
Salisbury Health Care trust has apologised for not making it clear to plastic surgery patients that their surplus skin would be sold for chemical weapons research.The trust sold skin removed during breast and abdominal surgery to the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency at Porton Down for £17,000 a year.The trust ...
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Ask the boss: the survey sample and methodology
The survey sample in 2000 comprised 64 managers in the most senior post responsible for mental health services in health authorities, local authority social services departments and NHS trusts in London.