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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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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.
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Stocking to be head of agency
Director of South East regional office Barbara Stocking has been named director of the NHS Modernisation Agency.
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Deacon gives Scottish blood transfusion service all-clear
Scottish health minister Susan Deacon is refusing to consider compensation after a 12-month investigation cleared the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service of any blame for infecting haemophiliac patients with hepatitis C.