All News articles – Page 2012
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Days like this
Community reforms held up. . .Alan Langlands appointed. . .PM asked for pay guarantees. . .Fewer women appointed. . . north-south split
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Dear Mel. . .
Our hospital social club has just started running 'exotic' entertainment evenings. On Tuesdays it's a hen night for the ladies with male strippers and so on, while Thursdays are stag nights for the lads with the female variety. The club makes quite a lot of money which it donates to ...
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Looking deeper
Health improvement programmes By Salman Rawaf and Peter Orton The Royal Society of Medicine 176 pages £14.95
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Socio-economic factors 'don't explain rankings'
Variations in health authority performance cannot be explained away by variations in social and economic conditions, a King's Fund study has concluded.
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Events
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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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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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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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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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Recovery positions
The General Medical Council is under attack but, Seamus Ward reports, its rearguard action is well underway
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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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£1.3bn in free nursing may resolve cares aga
The government looks set to make its long-awaited response to the Royal Commission on Long-Term Care by replacing means testing with a £1.3bn package for free nursing in care homes for elderly people.
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In brief: Volatile substance abuse
The annual number of deaths from volatile substance abuse has continued to fall, with a decrease from 74 to 70 deaths in 1998, according to a report from St George's Hospital medical school. The peak of 152 deaths associated with young people sniffing aerosols and glue was in 1990.
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Tribunal told of alleged abuse at care home for elderly
Vulnerable elderly residents died after abuse at a care home run by independent provider BUPA, an industrial tribunal has been told. In a case brought under the new Public Interest Disclosure Act, former care worker Eileen Chubb claimed she was hounded out of her job after complaining about neglect and ...