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Omagh health visitors have doubled their workloads to support people affected physically and mentally by the recent bomb explosion. And they will keep going as long as necessary, they tell Pat Healy
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New TUC president is former COHSE leader and ex-nurse
Hector MacKenzie, a qualified nurse and former leader of COHSE, has become president of the Trades Union Congress.
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NHS dentistry up a gum tree
We are living in a country where people travel 300 miles for dental care
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Steely determination: why ministers are resolved to make modernisation work
Ministers have a 'steely determination' to make the NHS IM&T strategy succeed, its author, Frank Burns, said this week.
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No Stalinism at work here, says human resources director
The government's new human resources strategy was 'not a Stalinist five- year plan', NHS human resources director Hugh Taylor told HSJ this week.
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Fighting for a seat at the table
Who should sit on the boards of primary care groups? Clinicians and managers are worrying about who should be represented - and in what proportions - as PCGs assume central importance in the 'new NHS' and we are urged to be less competitive and more collaborative.
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Milburn sets out five-year staff strategy
All trusts and primary care groups will be required to sign up to the government's new human resources strategy, launched yesterday by health minister Sir Alan Milburn.
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Time limit on healthy living Lottery funds
Healthy living centres will have to support themselves when Lottery grants run out, the government's new Lottery body said last week.
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Hague meets health workers in UK listen-in
Opposition leader William Hague met health professionals in Edinburgh last week as part of his UK-wide 'listening to Britain' campaign. About 10 journalists and 25 others turned up and told the Mr Hague that the current ills of the NHS were largely the result of 18 years of Conservative government.
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Heretic's six-figure salaries - that's rich
I was dismayed at the attitude behind Heretic's snide throwaway line about half of all hospital consultants now earning six-figure salaries
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A hole in the wall
Not everyone is convinced that the government's proposals for joint working with social services will deliver what is needed. Thelma Agnew reports
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Joined-up thinking on human resources strategy
A welcome lack of pious platitudes, but a sting in the tail - and a catch