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Senior manager equality targets set out to smash NHS glass ceiling
Health minister John Denham has announced tough new targets to break the 'glass ceiling' in NHS management and ensure that women and ethnic minorities secure more of the top posts.
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More of a common touch needed
Practising evidence-based geriatrics By Sharon Straus and David Sackett Radcliffe Medical Press 165 pages £30
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Cut to the quick
A rapid-response team is offering patients support after leaving hospital - or helping them avoid admission altogether. Kaye McIntosh explains
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Days like this
Paying the price of speaking one's mind. . . Controlling the internal market. . . Cervical cytology tests . . . A new round of HA mergers
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Dear Mel. . .
I am the estates manager of a major London hospital. Throughout the 1980s we undertook several crash programmes to convert our wards for dual-sex use.
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Income distribution
With Labour's Budgets showing evidence of old-style redistribution, perhaps the NHS could set a trend by looking at its own income inequalities, says John Appleby
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Future uncertain as HEA shuts its doors
The future of health education and campaigning was under threat this week as the Health Education Authority closed, with 140 redundancies.
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Down equality street
The NHS may have good intentions on race relations, but it has a long way to go before it achieves equality. Thelma Agnew reports on an HSJ survey
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Patients transferred as GPs wind down PCG
GPs have voted to disband a west London primary care group in the first case of its kind.
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It's drinking-up time in the NHS's last-chance saloon
The government is alienating its vital partners in NHS reform
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Milburn vents his fury as Lakeland scandal unfolds
Political correspondents, who had been summoned at short notice, had to wait a few minutes in the foyer of the Department of Health in Whitehall while the secretary of state's previous engagement overran. The wait only served to heighten the drama.
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Getting the wind up
Why won't health professionals write concise, accessible English? Tim Albert laments a culture of verbosity and pretension
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Now for some ghetto-blasting
In his London School of Economics health lecture, delivered in March, health secretary Alan Milburn made some important remarks about public health and its place within the NHS.
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Your good health
The mood was unanimously upbeat at a UK Public Health Association forum as the organisation turned a year old. Tash Shifrin soaked up the good vibrations
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MPs grill Langlands on 'good practice' roll-out
NHS chief executive Sir Alan Langlands has been grilled on why the NHS apparently struggles to make progress in areas the government wants to see tackled in its drive for modernisation.