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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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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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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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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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For PEATs' sake, be realistic
Teams' hospital tours give hard-pressed managers cause for irritation
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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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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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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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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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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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State of the union
Mr Naylor admits he 'has to be careful'about UCLH's past industrial relations problems.
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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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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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Over 100 labs 'h had mortuary problems'
The hospital at the centre of the bodies-in-the-chapel row will this week lose its accreditation for histopathology - including mortuary and post-mortem facilities.
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DoH in £60m staff scheme to think about the future
The Department of Health is to roll out a £60m scheme to give NHS staff 'protected time' to plan their part in the modernisation agenda.
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As 'dirty hospitals' clean up their act, ward sisters acquire powers over sub-standard companies
Follow-up visits to 50 'dirty hospital' trusts which failed inspection standards last autumn have revealed that 41 of them have moved from 'red' to 'amber' status.