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Looking to lobby
Richard Thomas has spent the past two years 'living in a goldfish bowl' of 'intense media interest' in the future of Swansea's troubled Morriston Hospital trust.
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Key points
Primary care has an ageing workforce. A quarter of GP principals, half of single-handed doctors, and 44 per cent of practice managers in this study were over 50.
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Key points
There are major governance issues for primary care trusts which need to be addressed now.
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Who's who on the inquiry panel
Professor Ian Kennedy (left) chair, is a leading expert on medical law and ethics. Crucially, he is not a doctor but is widely respected by the medical establishment. He has sat on several government advisory groups looking at AIDS, xenotransplantation and quarantine, and is professor of health law, ethics and ...
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McFall 'vision' paper would halve NI trusts
The number of health and social services trusts would be halved and commissioning handed over to primary care professionals under radical proposals launched by Northern Ireland health minister John McFall.
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Nurses gain prescribing powers
Nurses and other health professionals will be given wider powers to prescribe under proposals from the second Crown report into the supply and administration of medicines.
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Internal factors influencing PCT design
Governance tensions between PCG boards and their constituencies and partners;
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Days like these
Reforms not negotiable... Islington 'deplores' white paper... Vulnerable 'will lose out'... Boots' hospital invite... Ambulance tendering
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WEB WATCH MARK CRAIL
If you think that Durkheim was the one who invented the manoeuvre used by first-aiders to save people choking on their food, you have much to learn about sociologists. And if you still think hospitals are fundamentally benevolent institutions which aim to make people better, you have still more to ...