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'Sick' Marathon man is suspended by trust
A nursing director who ran in the London Marathon while on extended sick-leave has been suspended by his trust.
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Private sector may tender in major shake-up of prisons'GP services
A major shake-up in the way GP services are provided in Scottish prisons is being planned - with private healthcare organisations in the frame as a potential provider.
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Trusting to luck
A review of health improvement programmes found a wealth of priorities reflecting national policy.But measurable targets were very thin on the ground.Stephen Abbott and Steve Gillam report
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Late tackle
The government wants NHS staff to help in the fight against crime.But there are misgivings that such collaboration will undermine patient confidentiality. Lynn Eaton reports
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Hot stuff
Lord Hunt has his temperature taken alongside Jasmin Khatun, a pupil at Birmingham's Oldknow primary school, during a visit to celebrate Nurses Day.The junior health minister also filled in a worksheet on the human body and learned to take his pulse.A number of trusts organised visits to schools to tell ...
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Getting personal
The human effect in medicine: theory, research and practice By Michael Dixon and Kieran Sweeney Radcliffe Medical Press 157 pages £17.95
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Extremely simulating
HSJ 's Management Challenge gave contestants a vivid insight into the demands of their jobs - and one vowed to be nice to the city council for the rest of her life.Tash Shifrin was there
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Events
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Trial and error
The deaths of premature babies at North Staffordshire Hospital have proved that the NHS still needs to change radically the way it regards patients.Kaye McIntosh reports on the latest lesson the NHS can't afford to ignore
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Making a world of difference
The global challenge of health care rationing Edited by Angela Coulter and Chris Ham Open University 288 pages £19.99
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Dear Mel. . .
The prime minister is shortly to open a new hospital wing in my trust. However, he will be accompanied by Sir Alastair Campbell.
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Days like this
Plans to cut London's non-emergency ambulance budget by 12 per cent have been rejected in favour of income generation proposals, but the LAS will still shift resources from routine to emergency services. Options include raising more from the sale of old vehicles, normally sold cheaply at auction, and charging more ...
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Deacon warned as more winter crises lie in wait
A working group to look at ways of tackling winter pressures in Scotland has held its first meeting amid warnings of continuing pressure on 'fragmented' services.
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Short Cuts: Conservative proposal to end postcode prescribing
Shadow health secretary Dr Liam Fox has promised to end 'postcode prescribing' by setting up a centrally funded national medicines budget for treatments such as beta interferon.The size of the budget would be determined annually by the health secretary, but spent by an 'exceptional medicines fund' committee of 'senior clinicians ...