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Review for NI acute services
An independent review of acute hospital services in Northern Ireland is underway as part of a plan to develop health and personal social services published this week.
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Trust attacked by GMC for lack of action in Neale case
The president of the General Medical Council has strongly criticised managers in Northallerton for failing to take much earlier action against gynaecologist Richard Neale, who was struck off the medical register last week.
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'Shocked' CHCs bite back in row over abolition
Patient watchdogs have attacked the government's NHS plan, warning it will reduce public monitoring of the NHS despite its supposed 'patient focus'.
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Short Cuts: Call for GPs to abandon 'traditional role'
The Office of Health Economics has published a call for GPs to abandon much of their traditional role and become 'general contractors for care', steering patients through the health system in much the same way as a general building contractor steers a building project through its various stages. Professor Gordon ...
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Short Cuts: Ambulance services in London falter on 999 calls
London Ambulance Service trust's performance has dipped again.During June, when Euro 2000 added to demand, ambulances reached 35 per cent of urgent 999 calls within eight minutes, against a target of 55 per cent, and 82 per cent of calls within 14 minutes, against a target of 95 per cent.The ...
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What seems to be the trouble?
TO The rise of the salaried GP threatens the national contract and the red book. Should we care, ask Richard Lewis and Steve Gillam
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Recovery positions
The General Medical Council is under attack but, Seamus Ward reports, its rearguard action is well underway
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monitor
Management consultancy is a stressful game - and between Powerpoint presentations and trips to the service station to get more 'business cards' printed there's always a spot of Countdown to keep the grey cells ticking over. Top marks, then, to Crew Services, who promise to take the mystique out of ...
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Role model
Samantha Wilkinson, a year nine student at the Dixons city technology college in Bradford, investigates a Bart Simpson model designed as part of a project to help children understand asthma.
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Making a stand for understanding
Caring for Muslim patients Edited by Aziz Sheikh and Abdul Rashid Gatrad Radcliffe Medical Press 140 pages £17.95
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Ex-nurses wooed for the winter
The NHS is begging recently retired nurses to return to work this winter and offering trusts funding to persuade 'key staff ' to stay on until next spring.
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