All News articles – Page 2001
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Grey matters for the Milburnians
The first thing I did when I heard that Alan Milburn was making sweeping changes in the Department of Health's top management structure after Sir Alan Langlands' sudden departure was to ring a well-placed senior official close to the top of the Whitehall tree.
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Troubled GP intranet project to lose top man and deputy
The project struggling to link GP and NHS computer networks is to lose both its head and deputy this month.
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Point of departure
Is Alan Milburn going to seize the opportunity presented by Sir Alan Langlands' resignation to bring frontline managers to the very top of the NHS? The policy rumours have been flying thick and fast this week, reports Lyn Whitfield
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Scottish dental staff in protest over pay deal
Dental nurses and ancillary staff protest outside Glasgow Dental Hospital against a three-year pay deal.
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Days like this
Managers back performance pay. . .Latest ambulance strike offer. . .Clarke censure fails. . .New offices for NHSE. . . St Thomas' trust anger
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Heart of darkness
A shake-up of transplant services may outlaw racist conditions, but will it do anything to address the shortfall in available organs, asks Barbara Millar
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Greens propose free fruit for children in London
Free fruit would be distributed to all London schoolchildren if the Green Party won control of the new Greater London Assembly. Darren Johnson, the party's candidate for mayor, has announced that European surpluses of fruit, including 100 million apples, would be distributed. He added that the health of children from ...
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Pay of trust chief executives slides to half the rate for equivalents in private sector
Trust chief executives earned an average of £74,000 last year, less than half the comparable figure for private sector companies, according to a report by Pay and Workforce Research.
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OU poised to take over medical education centre
The Open University in Milton Keynes is poised to strengthen its stake in medical education by taking charge of the Joint Centre for Education in Medicine in May. The postgraduate and continuing education centre for primary and secondary care is relocating from London and will become the Open University Centre ...
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Exeter healthy living centre wins Lottery funding
The New Opportunities Fund has announced a £467,000 grant from National Lottery money for a healthy living centre in Exeter. The St Sidwell's Centre hopes to provide affordable meals in a 'friendly and supportive environment' through a community cafe, run parenting sessions and basic education classes, and provide access to ...
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Central line on the tubes
A new structure for regulating genetic medicine is designed to be more receptive to public concerns than the current set-up. Timothy Milewa and Michael Calnan ask if it can succeed
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Sex discrimination case dismissed
A woman NHS manager has lost her claim for sex discrimination and unfair dismissal at a Berkshire employment tribunal.
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In brief: Dave Prentis
Dave Prentis has won the election for general secretary of Unison and will succeed Rodney Bickerstaffe when he steps down at the end of th is year. The voting was :
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In brief: William Ward
A coroner has recorded a verdict of accidental death on an 88-year-old patient who fell to his death from a hospital window, despite being nursed on a secure ward.
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If I may be so bold. . .
Some of the civil servants running the NHS Executive haven't had an operational role in the health service for years. Ray Rowden says it's time to put top clinicians and managers at the centre
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BMA warns of 'charging'option
The NHS must consider charging patients, the British Medical Association has warned in a consultation document being sent to every GP in the country.
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BMA urges halt to debt recovery following cyclone
The British Medical Association has written to chancellor Gordon Brown and international development secretary Clare Short, urging the government to halt debt recovery from Mozambique in the aftermath of cyclone Eline, which left thousands homeless. Mozambique will soon benefit from government proposals to write off unpayable debt, but the BMA ...