All News articles – Page 1966
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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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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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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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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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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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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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monitor
The mountainous world of NHS recruitment gets overshadowed, fears Monitor, by molehills in matters of sport. Luckily funzine HSJ has no time for nonentities of the Kevin Keegan variety when there are real celebs like Nige Crisp to worry about. But this week, the dizzy worlds collide, as a former ...
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Quietly does it
The NAPC annual conference was a politically subdued affair this year. Everybody happy, then - or just too busy getting on with the job? Paul Stephenson reports
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Stocking's tops
The newly appointed director of the NHS Modernisation Agency takes up her job with a reputation as a thoroughly 'modern'woman at one with the ethos of New Labour. Laura Donnelly reports
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TRUST OF THE YEAR
Winner: Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospital trust Runners-up: Sandwell Healthcare trust; East Gloucestershire trust
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Shame about the 'evidence'
Phillips report on BSE must give politicians of every hue pause for thought
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NHS ordered to act now amid fears over winter
The NHS has been ordered to speed up the expansion of intermediate care services, spend more on social services and buy capacity from the private sector amid fears that it is facing a winter crisis.
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Cancer experts call for action on GMC's confidentiality rules
General Medical Council rules on patient confidentiality are threatening cancer research and monitoring of the national cancer plan.
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Number of members struck off UKCC register increases again
The UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting has reported a rise in the number of members being struck off.
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HSE moves in to stem violence against staff
The Health and Safety Executive has ordered a Scottish primary care trust to take immediate action to protect vulnerable staff from potentially violent and aggressive patients.