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Recruitment process makes a mockery of Nolan rules
HSJ sources have attacked the process by which 'the second most important job in the NHS' went to a regional director without the job being advertised.
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IT INITIATIVE OF THE YEAR
Winner: Suffolk health authority, the Suffolk extranet Runner-up: Bromley health authority, the Bromley general practitioner clinical system
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Lincolnshire RAZ held up as model of joint working
A Home Office white paper outlining plans to tackle rural poverty and isolation, published this week, will praise Lincolnshire county council's rural action zone as a model of joint agency working to help tackle issues such as bed blocking. The Lincolnshire RAZ, also launched this week, follows the South Holland ...
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MENTAL HEALTH INITIATIVE OF THE YEAR
Winner: Grampian health board, commissioning new employment services Runners-up: South Birmingham mental health trust; Wiltshire and Swindon Healthcare trust
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Great white hope
Will the government be able to avoid a politically disastrous 'crisis' this winter - the last before the election? Alison Moore reports that it is putting its hopes on joint initiatives at local level by health and social services
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Two-trust plan 'may lead to ghettoisation'
Plans to create two primary care trusts to cover a city centre are being fought by the local authority which says that it will divide the city along racial and social lines.
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Fenland PCT: a role play with resonance
The presentation was a real opportunity for delegates to get down to the nitty-gritty of running a PCT. And its three chief officers made it clear that, to date, things had worked well because they got on well as individuals and were all committed to the trust.
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Help for refugee doctors seeking work in NHS
A government initiative that could help hundreds of qualified refugee doctors and dentists find work in the NHS was launched last week.
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Managers welcome director of NHS Wales as 'one of their own'
A trust chief executive from Bristol has been appointed as the new director of the NHS in Wales.
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HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT OF THE YEAR
Winner: King's Healthcare trust Runner-up: Barts and the London trust
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FINANCE DEPARTMENT OF THE YEAR
Winner: Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull trust Runner-up: North Staffordshire Hospital trust
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Days like this
William Waldegrave has replaced Kenneth Clarke as health secretary in a move seen as an indication that the government does not regard the internal market reforms as a vote winner. It is understood Mr Clarke accepted his new job, at education, reluctantly.
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Cut to the trace
Searching for patients who have been treated by a surgeon infected with a blood-borne virus can be a time-consuming task. Tracey McErlain-Burns looks at some of the lessons to be learned in one trust
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Shelved report deepens crisis over midwives' recruitment
The government's refusal to publish a joint royal colleges' report that warns of the closure or merger of up to 80 maternity units is causing confusion among midwives and adding to recruitment and retention problems.