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Stephen Coneys is new director of primary care for Birmingham health authority. A former state registered nurse, he has been working as assistant to the chief executive and head of contractor operation. Mr Coneys, a leading mountaineer, says he has 'experienced and learned from some spectacular failures including frostbite and ...
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Taking a pounding
The increasing use of private beds for mental health patients is costing the NHS a fortune and demoralising community services staff. Alan Simpson reports
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Professional scrutineers
The professions modernisation action team is chaired by health minister John Denham.
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'X'marks the split
Unison is rethinking its relationship with the Labour Party and there are signs it may be moving towards a more oppositional stance. Tash Shifrin reports
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WEB WATCH
Remember Alasdair Liddell? He jacked in his job as planning director at the NHS Executive to go off and work for a dot. com. If you're wondering what he's up to these days, he's a director of iMPOWER, 'the provider of choice for online solutions to enable the citizen, entrepreneur ...
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The way that you do it
Most questions at the CHI roadshow concerned the operation of reviews. Gillian Bean, from a local patient support group, asked how CHI proposed to gather the opinions of organisations such as hers.
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Action teams to unveil first ideas
The government's modernisation action teams meet in London today to polish their ideas before presenting them to ministers in the next fortnight.
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Furious juniors threaten ballot on action against 'cruddy' sub-consultant scheme
Junior doctors have threatened industrial action against a proposed new sub-consultant specialist grade.
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All stressed up and nowhere to go?
Heavy workload is often cited as a major cause of dissatisfaction and stress among GPs.
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Funds of all knowledge
GPs and purchasing in the NHS: the internal market and beyond By Bernard Dowling Ashgate 276 pages £39.95
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Scottish ambulance service goes under spotlight
Scotland's ambulance service is to undertake the most extensive review of its operations in its 50-year history from now until next April. Beyond 2000 will examine non-emergency services and operations control rooms and evaluate a priority-based dispatch system. Ray Hepburn, project leader in charge of the priority dispatch system, said: ...
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First among equals
Priority setting and the public By Penelope Mullen and Peter Spurgeon Radcliffe Medical Press 168 pages £24.50
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Appointments signal reprieve for renal service
The NHS in Wales has secured its renal transplant service with the appointment of two consultant surgeons. The unit at Cardiff 's University Hospital of Wales has been short of surgeons for over a year, leading to an eight-day suspension of service earlier this year. There is a national shortage ...
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Carers live in poverty, association's survey reveals
The Carers National Association has claimed that many carers are living in poverty. One in five responding to a survey said they had to cut back on the number of hot meals they ate, while more than one in 10 were struggling to pay the mortgage. Six out of 10 ...
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Chairs face axe in purge to 'refresh' service
Almost a quarter of Scotland's chairs may be purged by Scottish health minister Susan Deacon in a bid to 'refresh' the service.
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Doctor backs GMC's role
A senior Scottish doctor has entered the row over medical regulation by claiming it is not the General Medical Council that is failing the public, but managers.
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Back-to-work basics
Persuading healthcare professionals to return to practice met with remarkable success among one group of trusts. Claire Grout describes how they did it
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In brief: Bairbre de Brun
Northern Ireland health minister Bairbre de Brun has officially met the Irish government's minister for health and children, Micheal Martin, at a meeting of the North/South ministerial council sectoral group on food safety promotion and health. The ministers discussed a range of health issues requiring improved cross-border co-operation, including accident ...