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Senior manager equality targets set out to smash NHS glass ceiling
Health minister John Denham has announced tough new targets to break the 'glass ceiling' in NHS management and ensure that women and ethnic minorities secure more of the top posts.
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HA chair resigns in protest over 'bypass' plans for Budget money
A health authority chair has resigned in protest at the government's claim that Budget money would bypass HAs.
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in brief: Waiting lists
Waiting lists dropped by 30,900 in February to 1,087,800. The latest figures bring the government to within 30,000 of its manifesto commitment to cut waiting lists by 100,000 within this parliament.
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in brief: Unison
Unison has pledged to sue trusts and manufacturers in Scotland if health workers are injured by syringes, in an attempt to force employers to use 'safe' needlesticks.
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in brief: Domestic violence
The NHS should do more to help victims of domestic violence, public health minister Yvette Cooper has said while launching a manual for health professionals.
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in brief: Shaping Tomorrow
Doctors' leaders are to write to every local GP representative in the country asking them for their vision of the future of general practice. British Medical Association GPs' committee chair Dr John Chisholm is to ask local medical committees to arrange meetings to discuss ideas outlined in the committee's book, ...
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in brief: Incorrect issue numbers
Two of the issue numbers published in recent editions of HSJ are incorrect. The issue of 23 March 2000, wrongly identified as no. 5695, is in fact 5697. The issue of 30 March, identified as no. 5696 is, in fact, 5698. This week's edition is no. 5699. We apologise for ...
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Boys will be boys
Men's health Perspectives, diversity and paradox Mike Luck, Margaret Bamford and Peter Williamson Blackwell Science 288 pages £18.99
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Hutton promises boost in equipment standards
Health minister John Hutton has responded to last week's Audit Commission report on equipment services by promising that standards will be 'driven up' and highlighting investment already promised for hearing aid and wheelchair services. NHS Confederation chief executive Stephen Thornton said managers wanted to end the 'postcode lottery of care'. ...
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Blair invited to surgery
Prime minister Tony Blair and health secretary Alan Milburn have been invited to spend a day in a GP's surgery by Dr Michael Dixon, a Devon doctor and chair of the NHS Alliance.
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Birmingham set to host defence medicine centre
Defence minister John Spellar and junior health minister Gisela Stuart have signed an agreement to create a centre for defence medicine at University Hospital Birmingham trust, which should open in April next year. The centre replaces the last remaining forces hospital in the UK, at Gosport in Hampshire, and will ...
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Giving a big OK to R&D
Change-promoting research for health services A guide for resource managers, research and development commissioners and researchers By Selwyn St Leger and Jo Walsworth-Bell Open University Press 236 pages £22.50
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'Six months to avert crisis' claim
The government has just six months 'to save the NHS', Christine Hancock, general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, announced this week.
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Question of attitude
How much do corporate culture and staff attitudes change when trusts merge? One trust surveyed staff before and after the process to find out. Louise Wallace and colleagues report