All News articles – Page 2004
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Fleet of foot
An early retirement culture and dissatisfaction with work have left an increasingly worried government with a staffing vacuum, writes Janet Snell
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Feeling the pressure
Stress in health professionals Psychological and organisational causes and interventions Edited by Jenny Firth-Cozens and Roy L Payne John Wiley & Sons 264 pages £17.99 paperback £39.95 hardback
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Taskforce moves in on 'doubled' overspend
The management of troubled Tayside health board came in for fresh criticism this week as a taskforce was sent in to 'deliver an effective financial recovery plan' to turn around a £12m deficit run up by its local acute trust.
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What's up, docs?
The Shipman case sounded the death-knell for the GMC in its current form. But what might replace self-regulation? Kaye McIntosh considers the options
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Days like this
Confidentiality warning. . . No extra powers for CHCs. . . De-recognition of unions put forward as strategy idea. . . 'Inevitability' of trusts. . .
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Cyberschool days
As more and more education providers offer web-based open and distance learning courses, Dolly Chadda looks at the prospects for NHS staff to learn online
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Give private managers a go, says Cumberlege
The NHS should introduce a pilot experiment in which a number of hospitals are taken over by private management teams 'if only to prove the government can do it better', former Conservative health minister Baroness Cumberlege has urged.
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Crisis, what crisis?
The media was determined to get its 'NHS winter crisis', but officially there wasn't one, junior health minister Gisela Stuart told MPs. That didn't entirely get her off the hook, though, Patrick Butler reports
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Image conscious
Chief medical officer Professor Liam Donaldson checks a picture of himself during a visit to launch a public health observatory. The North West observatory is one of eight 'nationwide intelligence gathering centres' set up to monitor health and disease trends as part of the government's bid to break the link ...
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World-class site set to close in shake-up
London regional office has unveiled plans to close both the world-renowned Harefield Hospital and the Royal Brompton Hospital to create a £200m specialist centre at London's Paddington Basin by 2006.
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Chief concerns
Devising a leadership programme for NHS chief executives is a challenging undertaking. Barbara Millar finds out what those in the first intake hope to get out of it
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Ex-region chair sparks local fury
The former chair of Trent region has triggered anger weeks after taking up a post as shadow chair of Leicester University Hospitals trust, due to start in April following a three-way merger.
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'You just don't realise how tired you are until you you have a chance to stop running round like a scalded cat'
Leveta Lawson was approaching 50 when she heard that North Bedfordshire Community Trust, where she worked, was to merge with the neighbouring trust.