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Lucky break: 'I do not mind where I work. I have already come a long way - more than 9,000 miles'
A chance meeting in a public library in Ilford, Essex, resulted in Dr Abebe Diro Ejara, a refugee from Ethiopia, receiving the help he needed to pursue a medical career in the UK.
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Targeting the youth vote
The old adage about catching them young applies just as much to trade unions as to banks. In fact, since the average age of health workers is rising, the battle for younger members is intensifying.
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Turning the tables
Private companies are making nice profits from producing highly contentious hospital league tables. is not it time the NHS built up its own expertise in collating performance data? Laura Donnelly reports
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State of the union
Mr Naylor admits he 'has to be careful'about UCLH's past industrial relations problems.
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Routes to recovery
Integrated Care Pathways A practical approach to implementation Edited by Sue Middleton and Adrian Roberts Butterworth-Heinemann 155 pages £16. 99 paperback
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On short rations
As the roll-call of NICE-approved drugs gets longer, health authorities are under increasing pressure to juggle budgets. Jeremy Davies reports
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RCN selection process was 'undemocratic'
The Royal College of Nursing's decision to offer its general secretary post to US nursing leader and ex-Clinton aide Beverly Malone has fanned controversy about its 'undemocratic' selection process.
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THE PERSUADERS
Name: Stephen Thornton Job: Chief executive, NHS Confederation Style: Was asked to leave school because - young leader in the making - he stood firm and refused to shave off his beard. But recently modernised his chin in clean-shaven Milburn-like style. A keen Baptist - and (a mole tells us) ...
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in person
Jan Sobieraj has started as chief executive of Barnsley District Hospital trust after moving from his previous position of chief executive at South Lincolnshire Healthcare trust. He has replaced Sue James, who left to become director of the Trent Leadership Centre and head of development at Trent regional office.
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For PEATs' sake, be realistic
Teams' hospital tours give hard-pressed managers cause for irritation
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A perfect partnership?
Director of nursing for the prison healthcare taskforce Lindsay Bates says progress with the needs assessments for the PHImPs is 'generally good'and 'all are on target to complete'by the deadline.
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Worries over patients' rights overshadow Milburn pledges
The government moved to position itself firmly on the side of patients this week, as a series of initiatives and ministerial speeches surrounded publication of the Alder Hey report.
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Trade union membership
RCN: covers registered nurses and students and has just agreed to extend its membership to HCAs and nurse cadets. Membership is 330,000;91 per cent of members are women and 7. 7 per cent are from an ethnic minority. Almost 40 per cent of full members are aged 3544 with a ...
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A pretty little sum
It is all very well for the government to set a 13-week target for outpatient appointments, says Rodney Jones. But the NHS cannot be complacent about the effect of randomness on waiting times
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Orthodox ginkgo study is the scrutiny herbal remedies need
If you're casting around for medical publishing's equivalent to the classic newspaper definition of a non-story ('Small earthquake in Peru, not many hurt') a recent paper in the BMJ (13 January) might seem to fit the bill.
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Yawning gap in perceptions as 'Giggles'Denham struts his stuff
It is funny noticing what really matters to people when the world is crashing down around them. I spent last Saturday at a Fabian Society conference, when Peter Mandelson's world lay in ruins and, rather more literally, so did a sizeable chunk of western India.
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The 'free-for-all' in freefall
Some deft re-wording was enough to save the day when Scotland's wrangling over personal care costs turned ugly. Lynn Eaton examines the new promises