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Health service must offer 1,000 jobs in first stage of New Deal scheme
The NHS will be expected to provide at least 1,000 jobs and training places for unemployed people as its initial contribution to the government's New Deal scheme, and will be expected to deliver more in future, managers have been told.
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WEB WATCH
There are times when the Institute of Management gives a good impression of suggesting that if you're not running a FT-SE 100 company then you are not really managing. Its last annual management pay survey reported rises of 10 per cent for directors due to 'business growth'. Eat your heart ...
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Situations vacant
Twenty years ago, the brightest and best medical graduates were queuing up to become GPs. Today, general practice is acknowledged to be in serious difficulties. The number of young doctors entering GP training schemes fell by more than 20 per cent in the 10 years to October 1997, more doctors ...
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Site unseen:
Site unseen: construction workers on the site of the pounds63m Cumberland Infirmary redevelopment in Carlisle, one of the first wave of private finance initiative building programmes to secure approval.
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In similar vein
Proposals to reorganise the Scottish blood service bear more than a passing resemblance to recent changes south of the border - and seem set to cause as much controversy, writes Barbara Millar
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Picture this
Picture this: Pat Long was one of 40 students showing their art work at an exhibition in Leeds for participants in a course for people with mental illness. The exhibition, part-funded by Leeds Community and Mental Health Services trust, included drawings, paintings, collages and sculptures. Course co-ordinator Phil Hopkins said: ...
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Whine lists
GPs are now said to be working harder than ever - but are things really so bad? Fifty years ago the average GP had a list of 3,000 patients.The average figure masked the fact that huge numbers of GPs had larger lists, sometimes much larger.
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Never too late to learn
The Bristol baby deaths case has set the current agenda for debate on quality monitoring.
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Involve the voluntary sector in new PCGs
Like many of your readers I am interested in the formation of primary care groups - especially since the timescale for introducing them is relatively short.
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Invisible link
Will the government's new strategy for carers mollify those who accuse the NHS of not doing enough to support them?
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Managers get their OATs
At the risk of appearing vulgar, we feel we have to point out that getting their OATs looks like becoming a preoccupation for NHS managers. The government's plans for replacing extra-contractual referrals with retrospective payments for 'out of area treatments' may resurrect some of the problems associated with funding cross-boundary ...
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RCR survey findings
More than 40 per cent of respondents said morale was low or very low, with legal pressures among the factors blamed.
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A passion for Prudence which fills Gordon's heart
This column tries to resist conspiracy theory. All the same I couldn't help wondering why the 'Constitutional Declaration' that Tony Blair and a very happy Paddy Ashdown signed last week had been timed to coincide with Gordon Brown's big public spending statement, which put it in the shade.
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Fears of Treasury meddling with IM&T
Leading computing suppliers fear that Treasury interference with the coming NHS IM&T strategy will leave unsolved their main problem - the byzantine procurement procedures imposed on trusts wanting to spend more than a trivial sum on their IT projects.
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There's no need to gloss over the facts
An Office for Public Management survey ('Off message', pages 26- 27, 7 May) suggests that many people feel glossy publications produced by the NHS are a waste of public money.
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Pressure increases to finance MS drugs
Health authorities could be under pressure to fund Betaferon treatment for thousands more patients - at a cost of millions of pounds - by the end of the year.