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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...