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Showcase for health managers
Health minister Alan Milburn addresses HSJ's health management awards dinner in London last week.
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Health visitors
There can be no doubt that the role of the health visitor has long been the subject of debate, but your report describing the 'enormous implications' of the Supporting Families green paper demonstrates once again the ignorance surrounding the role of the health visitor (News, page 7, 12 November).
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Group practice makes perfect
'The shifting organisational pattern of doctors may be the key to the fortune of health policy in the US'
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Personnel tips for GPs
The director of pay and workforce research, John Northrop, was incorrect when he said: 'HR practices in general practice are non-existent,' (News Focus, page 11, 1 October).
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Finance staff training scheme hits the road
Up to 16,000 NHS finance staff will be offered training to help them cope with the government's sweeping health service reforms.
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End of an era
Thousands of Asian doctors who came to Britain in the 1960s and 1970s are about to retire, with huge implications for general practice. Jo Carlowe reports
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MPs told of new need for doctors
MPs have been warned that the European working time directive will create additional demand for extra doctors.
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MPs told of new need for doctors
MPs have been warned that the European working time directive will create additional demand for extra doctors.
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Deliberate self-harm
If the NHS is to achieve the targets for suicide reduction in The Health of the Nation1 and the green paper Our Healthier Nation, the problems that lead people to harm themselves must be addressed.
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Short cuts Midwives recommend HIV test for pregnant women
The Royal College of Midwives has recommended that all pregnant women should be offered HIV testing and that testing should be recommended in areas where rates of infection are high. The recommendations are made in a leaflet produced with the Department of Health, launched by the RCM and public health ...
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Holidays at risk in millennium staff crisis
Trusts have been urged to consider cancelling leave and asking retiring staff to stay on to cope with the 'unprecedented pressures' of the millennium celebrations.
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More ideas for coping with the millennium crisis.
'Front load' elective activity to the first six months of 1999 to allow for lower levels of planned activity in January 1999 and December 2000.
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Heading to come
For some of us old enough to remember the suppression of the Black report on inequalities in health back in 1980, the publication of former chief medical officer Sir Donald Acheson's son of Black report felt a bit like the arrest of General Pinochet - long overdue revenge on behalf ...
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Dorrell had 'time of stress' over CJD
Former Conservative health secretary Stephen Dorrell told the BSE inquiry this week that he experienced a 'time of stress' during intense media speculation about new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
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Complaints convenors are strictly impartial - despite what CHCs say
Wendy Goodwin and Tracy Steward (Letters, 5 November) would have us believe that the vast bulk of people who resort to the NHS complaints procedures are disillusioned about getting an impartial hearing.
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Fund urges realism on revamped charter
The Patient's Charter is 'flawed and constraining', and the government should consider carefully what it aims to achieve with a replacement, a King's Fund report has concluded.