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Happy families or snap?
Family-friendly working initiatives are widespread in the NHS, but are managers matching policies to what staff really want? John Northrop finds out
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Survey finds failure in NHS equality practice
Many trusts are failing to put their own equal opportunities policies into practice, a comprehensive survey for the NHS Executive has suggested.
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Early learning
With new figures confirming Scotland's high rates of teenage pregnancy, Barbara Millar reports on initiatives to address the issue and provide sex education earlier
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Good staff training is essential when restraint of those with a learning disability is necessary
The use of physical interventions, or restraint, to manage challenging behaviours presented by adults and children with a learning disability, is a matter of considerable concern to professionals, care staff, family members and those responsible for implementing government policy.
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Great dictators
Leadership is a vastly overrated quality, especially in managers, argues Steve Ainsworth
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A summary of evidence of internal market effects on hospital prices and costs
Were GP fundholder prices consistent?
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Charter will give staff right to exclude violent patients
Embattled staff at St Bartholomew's and the Royal London Hospital will be given powers to turn away violent or abusive patients under a new charter to be introduced next month.
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Campaigners welcome review of continence services policy
Campaigners have welcomed a government decision, announced last week by junior health minister Paul Boateng, to set up a review of continence services.
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HA brings in 'bouncers'
A health authority has angered residents by hiring a professional security firm to steward public meetings on hospital reconfiguration plans.
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IHSM is not the strong body managers need
Jamie Sharpley is right (Letters, 27 August), NHS managers deserve a strong body which pretty well every manager belongs to. Sadly, the Institute of Health Services Management is not that body.
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Scots managers reassured over jobs, but boards face clear-out
Health service managers have been given an assurance that there will be no redundancies and few early retirements as a result of a decision to cut the number of Scottish trusts from 46 to 28.
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Confederation falls out with Blair on pay
NHS employers clashed with prime minister Tony Blair over pay this week in the run-up to tomorrow's deadline for evidence to the pay review bodies.
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Token equal opportunities policies are not enough Can the national human resources strategy move beyond box-ticking?
All but the most Neanderthal of public sector employers pay at least lip service to the concept of equal opportunities these days - witness the 98.9 per cent of chief executives who took the trouble to respond to an NHS Executive survey on the issue, and the 98 per cent ...
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Difficulties mount as HA tries to fill gap left by Lighthouse bed closures
A specialist charity is being asked to move into new areas to plug a gap left by the closure of residential places at the London Lighthouse.
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New chair takes the driving seat NHS Confederation should become a driving influence on policy
The election of Catherine McLoughlin as chair of the NHS Confederation this week represents a partial break with the past (See News, pages 2- 3). Though she has been co-chair since the organisation's inception, she has none of the political baggage which made her rival and former co-chair, Marco Cereste, ...
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Unison prepares to strike in PFI battle despite High Court threat
Union leaders claim they will be able to deliver strike action at one of London's largest trusts despite a management threat to challenge the dispute in the High Court.