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Maiden over?
The NHS's masculine style misses out on female strengths, leadership experts argue. They want to see a new breed of 'hybrid managers' batting for the health service. Carol Harris reports
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Monitor
Monitor would like to reassure anyone hanging around Heathrow Airport recently that the finance director of the NHS does not normally wander round clutching a Zulu shield. It's just that Colin Reeves had to stand in for Dobbo at short notice on a trip to sell South Africa's health service ...
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Smarty pants
Dr David Torgerson, senior research fellow at York University, and research nurse Ruth Hildreth displaying a pair of SafeHip shock-absorbing underwear, which has been developed to protect people at risk of fractured neck of femur. They are seeking 4,500 volunteers for a long-term trial to test the effectiveness of the ...
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Performance pay 'will not work'
Offering NHS managers financial inducements to improve performance will not work and could be divisive, a study on motivating senior public servants has found.
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Playing up
Three year old Fajer Al-Otaibi, who is deaf, plays with water at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, helped by play instructor Dionne Moodi.
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Quietly does it
The Freedom of Information Bill has been watered down, and many vital aspects of health policy will remain shielded from public scrutiny, argue Justin Keen and John Appleby
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Room with a view
Nurse Helen Coppock reflects on her new flat in Poland House, a nine-storey office block refurbished to provide affordable homes for healthcare workers by Peabody Unite and Barts and the London trust. It was officially opened last week.
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WEB WATCH
Thousands of nurses abandoned the wards last week and joined picket lines in a national strike over pay and conditions. Hospitals left with just emergency cover immediately cancelled many of their planned admissions and clinics, while some patients were sent home as pressure built up.
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Short cuts: Hutt announces £1m anti-smoking drive for Wales
Welsh health and social services minister Jane Hutt has announced a £1m programme to implement the policies set out in the Smoking Kills white paper. A 'smokebusters' club for 9 to 11-year-olds will be set up as part of initiatives to curb smoking among children and young people. New smoking ...
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NI fundholding to continue until 2001
GP fundholding is to be extended in Northern Ireland 'at least until April 2001' because of the political vacuum caused by the failure to set up a devolved assembly.
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Short cuts: Sickness absence problems at 60 per cent of trusts
Sixty per cent of trusts see the level of sickness absence among staff as a problem and 86 per cent are running, or plan to run, some sort of initiative to reduce it, according to a survey of all 402 trusts in England by the Government Statistical Service. The average ...
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You ain't seen nothing yet
Normal new year A&E preparations are small beer compared with this year's activity. But will it be enough? Laura Donnelly reports
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Short cuts: Cocaine death trend among employed cohabitants
A trend in cocaine-related deaths has been identified by the third report from the national programme on substance abuse deaths, run by St George's Hospital Medical School. Although only 18 deaths out of 695 reported by 96 coroners' jurisdictions in England and Wales involved cocaine, 'these cases differ from the ...
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Call for annual reports on Saving Lives white paper
The UK Public Health Association has called for annual public health reports on the strategy in the Saving Lives white paper.
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Round the baccy
A new centre will monitor the ways tobacco companies try to get round the ban on cigarette advertising. Barbara Millar reports