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Careering ahead
What drives people to join the NHS management training scheme and how do they see a career in management working out in the post-white paper world? Some of those on the scheme spoke to the Journal
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Ambulance manager fired after inquiry
One manager has been sacked and another 'exonerated' following an internal inquiry by London Ambulance Service trust linked to the unfair dismissals of two crew members.
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Actuaries call for national health indices
The government should introduce new 'national health indices' to measure progress in cutting health inequalities, the Faculty and Institute of Actuaries said last week.
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SCODA: make drugs action a corporate goal
A coalition of drugs services has called for action against drug abuse to become a 'corporate goal' for the NHS.
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Christmas 'cancelled' as IT bug panic bites across NHS
Hospitals are set to cancel Christmas leave for many staff next year to guard against potential disaster from the millennium IT bug.
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Called to account
The Audit Commission is due for a review of its work over the past five years. Mark Crail reports
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In Brief: Work-related accidents
The Health and Safety Executive has issued guidance to employers on the reporting of work-related accidents and occupational ill health in hospitals, nursing homes and general practice. It said that figures suggest only 37 per cent of accidents affecting employees in health and social work were reported to HSE in ...
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13 HAs fail to reach targets for screening
Thirteen health authorities failed to screen sufficient women to reach the national target for cervical screening in 1996-97, the National Audit Office said this week.
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this week
Dateline Glasgow 3am: a triage nurse pacifies a patient in Glasgow Royal Infirmary's accident and emergency department. Photo-journalist Harriet Logan's pictures of the NHS at work in Glasgow and Sheffield are included in an exhibition organised by Network photographers to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the NHS. It opens on ...
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Shouting in Unison
Ministers had an easy ride at union conferences last year. Now the honeymoon is over. Dolly Chadda reports
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Shadow of polio
A poster by Reginald Mount urges people to protect themselves against the disease in an exhibition about the history of needles in medicine. You Won't Feel A Thing is at the Wellcome Trust's History of Medicine Gallery at 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE.
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The power and the pilfering
This may be the age of the £125,000-a-year trust chief executive responsible for 15,000 staff and a budget of more than £400m, but can any manager in today's NHS claim the untrammelled power and influence - let alone the unquestioned personal authority - of the group secretary and house governor ...
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Prospects of partnership
The strategic joint working envisaged in the The New NHS white paper requires a partnership approach at the front line, argues Bob Hudson
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monitor
So St James' boss David Johnson has been appointed chief executive of the new Leeds 'super trust'. But Monitor is curious to unravel the mystery of who the other three candidates were who were interviewed for the £125,000 post. Leeds health authority chief executive Ron De Witt was one. But ...
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HAZs warning
The lessons of earlier area-based approaches to health and social welfare should be heeded if health action zones are to avoid past pitfalls, says Joan Higgins
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GP systems 'poor value for money'
More than a quarter of GPs regard their computer system as poor value for money, according to a survey by the NHS Executive.
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Past and failed
How have the eager young would-be medics we saw on TV in 1984 fared? Mark Crail reports