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Former nurse Ann Keen
Former nurse Ann Keen has been appointed parliamentary private secretary to health secretary Frank Dobson. The Brentford and Isleworth MP was also general secretary of the Community and District Nursing Association until her election in 1997. She succeeds Hugh Bayley, now a social security minister.
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All hands on deck
The former admiral seconded to Ashworth Hospital in the wake of the damning Fallon report has his work cut out. Laura Donnelly looks at the options
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Upheaval, mayhem, poor morale - and all for what? Merger mania is causing seismic shifts that may not fulfil expectations
On 1 April the NHS structure throughout the UK will look radically different to how it did just 23 months earlier when Labour came to power. A decade ago, the service protested shrilly against the pace of change instigated by the Thatcher reforms; the internal market took three years to ...
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Community and mental health trust opts to outsource all its IT
HBOC has won a £3.6m, seven-year contract to manage all IT at Chichester Priority Care Services trust. The deal makes Chichester the first community and mental health trust to outsource its entire IT operation.
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Bristol inquiry publishes agenda
The inquiry into the Bristol child heart surgery tragedy, due to begin in March, has published a list of the main issues it will examine in the first phase of hearings.
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'Laid-back' attitude to violence against nurses
Nurses are more at risk from violence at work than any other profession, according to a new report from the Trades Union Congress which says violence is 'endemic' in hospitals.
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Same again but with a difference The only real option open to Labour is to fund the nurses' pay award
Ministers are currently having that hardest of lessons about the NHS rammed down their throats - namely, that no matter how much money you allocate to it, sooner or later (usually sooner) it will raise a cacophonous clamour for even more.
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Arthur Binns has become project director for the health action zone covering Leicester city.
Arthur Binns has become project director for the health action zone covering Leicester city. He was previously finance director for Leicestershire health authority and is a past chair of the Healthcare Financial Management Association. Mr Binns' previous post has been filled by Kevin Orford, formerly finance director for Nottingham City ...
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Time-wasters
About half the calls made to Nottinghamshire Ambulance Service over the holiday period were a 'waste of time', claims trust spokesman Phil Morris.
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Supra troupers
A study into the development of one city's primary care groups found backing for a supra-PCG, which would monitor standards and provide management support. Judith Smith and colleagues explain
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Ready sorted
news focus; Health authority and trust chief executives in the capital have already experienced the forthright management style of Nigel Crisp, the man running the new London region.
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In person
Derek Smith, chief executive of King's Healthcare trust, is leaving at the end of this month to become managing director of London Underground. He has led the trust for nine years. The trust's director of finance and information services, Patrick Butcher, will become acting chief executive until a successor is ...
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In person
Derek Smith, chief executive of King's Healthcare trust, is leaving at the end of this month to become managing director of London Underground. He has led the trust for nine years. The trust's director of finance and information services, Patrick Butcher, will become acting chief executive until a successor is ...
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One for the road
The Road Traffic Bill will make it easier for the NHS to claim back treatment costs for crash victims. But will it be worth doing? Seamus Ward finds out
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More than half of Northern Ireland's trusts expect to run out of money before the end of the financial year, according to a British Association survey which concluded that the province's hospital service was in 'severe distress'. The survey found that eight out of 14 responding trusts had lost beds ...
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Monitor
There comes a time in politics when you just have to come clean about that shameful secret before someone outs you. So Monitor wants to hear no sniggering now that the man who gave fundholding its academic credibility has admitted his embarrassing and somewhat perverse peccadillo. Yes, former Labour parliamentary ...
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Milburn motors on
Although Alan Milburn was technically health secretary Frank Dobson's understudy, the new NHS primary care programme will arguably go down in history as Milburn's reforms.
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A matter of trust
One challenge of merging health and social services in a pioneering trust is allaying the fears of both camps that the other will dominate, writes Pat Healy.
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Managers moonlight to make up for low pay
Half of NHS managers do not think they are well paid and one in 10 has a second paid job, according to a Unison survey published as part of its campaign for higher pay.