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Private sector must improve, says Alan Duncan
The private healthcare sector should help pay for the training of doctors and nurses, said Conservative health spokesman Alan Duncan.
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'It's the unknown that is difficult': waiting at the airport
Dr Philip Monk, consultant in public health with Leicestershire health authority, had 48 hours' notice that a plane with refugees from the Balkans would be arriving at East Midlands airport.
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New merged trust is £4m short
A deficit of over £4m was declared last week at the first board meeting of the newly merged Epsom and St Helier trust.
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Rock-a-bye
Jenny Hope (left), midwifery manager at Arrowe Park Hospital, Wirral, helps Nichola Brown with her newborn son, David, and an elevating cot designed to help disabled parents care for their children. Ms Hope designed the cot in consultation with occupational therapists Mandy Whalley and Gaynor Reid after a disability audit ...
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in person
Tees and North East Yorkshire trust has seven board-level appointments. Moira Britton, who headed the former South Tees Community and Mental Health trust, is chief executive of the new trust. She is joined by chair Eileen Grace, a Labour councillor and deputy leader of Middlesbrough council. Dr Kathryn Gillen, Eleanor ...
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Key points
High-quality, dedicated management support was crucial to the GP commissioning pilots.
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Key points
A system for calculating the cost of clinical audits in terms of money and staff time has been in operation at Brighton Health Care trust since 1995.
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Is your whistleblowing policy up to the job?
Few of the draft policies by trusts and health authorities sent to Public Concern at Work comply with the new legislation. Indeed, the wording of some of them, no doubt inadvertently, makes it more likely that a member of staff will be protected if they make a disclosure to the ...
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How the survey works
Men and women over the age of 16 were asked to rate their health on a five-point scale, ranging from 'very good' to 'very bad'.
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How can podiatrists be regulated by other professions?
Carol Harris's article, 'Toeing the line', (pages 24-25, 15 April) failed to express the concerns of the individual professions allied to medicine about the Health Bill. Current ministerial assurances to PAMs on retaining self-regulation are disinformation: self-regulation of the individual professions is not being proposed. State-registered professions that are currently ...