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Steering in the right direction
All the overseas nurses needed a settling-in time, whether they formally required an adaptation period or not. When nurses were recruited from Malaysia, Finland and South Africa they arrived as registered nurses within this country, but still needed support.
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Days like this
The Department of Health has been criticised for spending £10,000 on a slap-up dinner for the chairs and managers of successful trust applications.It feted more than 100 guests at a £50-a-head black-tie dinner at the Banqueting House in Whitehall. Bath district general manager Andrew Wall described the event, attended by ...
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A song and dance from Deacon as the McPlan leaves England reeling
And a happy new year to you, too. Now that We are all agreed that the new millennium has commenced, let's start on a suitably apocalyptic note. Let's look at Scotland's newly published version of the NHS plan, a 96-page glossy entitled The NHS Plan for Scotland.
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Out for the count
A new way of coding health statistics will reveal a change in mortality rates in England. Alison Moore reports
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Clinical developments
The Clinical Standards Board for Scotland is charged with overseeing the implementation of clinical governance. Like the Commission for Health Improvement in England and Wales, it will publish reports on the performance of trusts. The Health Technology Board - the equivalent of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence - will ...
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'Dirty' hospitals could face clean-up teams
A team of facilities managers could be sent into 'dirty' hospitals within the next few weeks after 35 per cent of hospitals failed inspections for cleanliness.
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HAs must name their NHS plan 'champions'
All health authorities will have to appoint their own modernisation boards and nominate a team of 'champions' to lead on the changes outlined in the NHS plan, according to new guidance from the NHS Executive.
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'The chair wanted a sacrificial lamb': a chief executive's tale
Anne (not her real name) lost her job following some unrest among her trust's senior consultants.
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Best practice or better: staff
Staff will be directly involved in assessing boards' performance as employers.
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Seeing is believing
A practical guide to primary care groups and trusts Edited by Michael Dixon and Kieran Sweeney Radcliffe Medical Press 280 pages £22.50
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Consultants step up pressure on private work ban
Consultants are seeking concessions on their right to work in private practice as negotiations between the Department of Health and the British Medical Association on new contracts open next week.
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Power back to the people
If, as Harold Wilson memorably remarked, a week is a long time in politics, what on earth should we think of 10 years? That is the time it will take to bring the NHS plan to completion. What will screw it up, of course, is what another Harold - Macmillan ...
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Those answers to HSJ's Christmas quiz in full. . .
1.Tony Blair. According to Andrew Rawnsley's book Servants of the People, the chancellor was furious at the prime minister's commitment to raise spending on healthcare as a proportion of national income to the European average.
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Surely some mistake? The case of Andrew Wall
More than 40 chief executives have seen their contracts terminated over the past five years and with many currently seeking to gain work or having returned to work in the NHS, few are willing to talk about their experiences.However, Andrew Wall, who lost his job as chief executive of Bath ...
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A very interesting post-plan new year to all
Pace of implementation must quicken as general election looms