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It takes two to tango
What makes the relationship between chair and chief executive successful? Andrew Wall describes how a series of interviews with some of these 'couples' revealed the importance of personal compatibility
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Cornwall GPs to claim back fees for phone advice given to tourists
GPs in Cornwall are hoping to claim thousands of pounds in a dispute with the government over fees for telephone consultations with tourists and other temporary residents.
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UKCC considers ethnic monitoring - five years after recommendation
Nursing's regulatory body is considering how it can gather data on the ethnic origin of all registered nurses - five years after it was urged to do so in a King's Fund report.
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Arson probe after hospital fires
Managers have stepped up security at a Manchester hospital hit by two major fires in two weeks.
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After the bomb
As the first casualties of Northern Ireland's worst terrorist bombing began to arrive at Tyrone County Hospital in Omagh, health services swung into a co-ordinated response that confirmed the strength of
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All quiet on the western front?
A car with a drunken passenger almost falling out of the window veered into a parked taxi. The passenger's head hit the taxi twice.
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Milburn renews attack on market with scheme to replace risk insurance firms
Health minister Alan Milburn has angered the insurance industry by unveiling plans to change the way trusts cover themselves against non- clinical risks.
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One step beyond
An experiment in the Netherlands could point to the future for cross-border healthcare following a landmark EU ruling. But the Department of Health may challenge it. Tony Sheldon reports from Utrecht
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BMA blames managers for junior doctors' stress
Managers have been blamed for most of the work-related stress suffered by junior doctors in a report from the British Medical Association.
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Health board and union in clash over closure
Greater Glasgow health board has recommended the closure of a hospital for 300 patients with learning difficulties.
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'Political pressure' to bring down waiting lists, claim Conservatives
The Conservatives traded insults with government ministers this week over claims that 'immense political pressure' was being put on managers to improve waiting list statistics.
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Broadmoor strike threat over rotas
Broadmoor special hospital was pitched into fresh crisis this week when the Prison Officers' Association threatened to hold a ballot on strike action unless management took immediate steps to ease 'severe and critical' staff shortages.
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Calman urges improved salaries for cytologists
Chief medical officer Sir Kenneth Calman has urged trust managers to improve cytologists' pay as part of an 'action plan' to strengthen the national cervical screening programme.
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Communicating flaws
The London Ambulance Service is linking up with a telephone interpreting line in a bid to improve its work with ethnic minorities. Anna Minton reports
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Winning the day
Scotland has improved its day surgery performance, and even convinced sceptical GPs. Barbara Millar reports
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PFI 'milestone' for Edinburgh
Contracts have been signed for Scotland's flagship private finance initiative hospital building project - a 180m replacement for Edinburgh's Royal Infirmary, City Hospital and Princess Margaret Rose Orthopaedic Hospital.
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Transfers to NHS from jail 'too slow'
The chief inspector of prisons has alerted home secretary Jack Straw to 'totally unacceptable' delays in transferring mentally ill prisoners from Long Lartin jail to the NHS.
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Mis-sold pensions settled 'speedily'
Unions have welcomed the 'pretty speedy' progress finally being made in resolving the personal pensions mis-selling scandal that hit tens of thousands of NHS staff in the 1980s.