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Questions about HAs and health promotion
I agree wholeheartedly with Pam Cooper (Letters, 4 June) that health promotion specialists, by virtue of their experience in working across agency boundaries for many years, have the potential to make a major contribution to the development of health improvement programmes and primary care groups, given the organisational position of ...
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A 50th birthday resolution for the NHS: treat staff and users as adults
The issues for debate during the NHS's 50th anniversary concern its core values: professionalism, consumerism and the notion of the public sector.
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Suits you sir
Suits you sir: Royal Armouries conservator Alison Draper prepares a 17th century 'suit of armour' designed to correct orthopaedic injuries. It is to be moved from the Thackray Medical Museum in Leeds to the Science Museum in London for an exhibition celebrating 25 years of the grant fund for the ...
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At your service
Managing mental health services is 'lots of fun, very challenging and as intellectually demanding as any other senior management job in the NHS', says Peter Reading, chief executive of Lewisham and Guy's Mental Health trust in London. But, he adds, it can also be frustrating because it does not carry ...
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A pledge on sterile services staff pay at UHW
Your news story on the industrial dispute at University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff (page 5, 11 June) mentioned that Sterile Services International did not have a representative in the UK. SSI is a UK company, and has had a fully staffed head office in Cardiff for 18 months.
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What the papers said
Then, as now, bad news took precedence over good, and on the day the NHS began the papers were dominated by news of Britain's worst air disaster, in which 39 people died.
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Mavericks with a mission
The rulers of Renaissance cities would allow the mavericks of society - rebel artists, writers and philosophers - to criticise their government openly. Although the mavericks lived in special enclaves outside the city walls, their views were always listened to and valued. These leaders realised that the maverick ideas of ...
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Mean machine:
Mean machine: mental health service users called for an end to the use of electro-convulsive therapy during a vigil at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and promised a 'national campaign to fight shock treatement'. The initiative is backed by a number of user groups, including Survivors Speak Out, Reclaim Bedlam ...
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Leading lights
Health authorities can have a key strategic role in the new NHS - but only if they earn it. Lyn Whitfield reports
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Whatever the words, relationships are important in reorganisations
As Lorne Williamson surmises (Open Space, 18 June), reorganisations will continue to have an impact on the NHS for the foreseeable future. He also expresses concerns about the process of change within the service and its effect on staff and clinical services.
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Homa on the range
Asked what qualities his colleagues would ascribe to him, Peter Homa offers: 'Supportive, focused, results-driven - with a sense of humour.'
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Heretic
A friend told me recently that Heretic was written by Leicester Royal Infirmary trust chief executive Peter Homa. I was flattered, given the impressive results of the pioneering business process re-engineering initiative he drove at LRI. But that mould-breaking effort's multi-million pound price-tag has deterred other trusts from challenging traditional ...
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GPs lead race to succeed Sandy
Three GPs are in the running to lead the British Medical Association when Sir Alexander Macara steps down as chair of its governing council today after five years in the post.
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Thunder and enlightening
Primary care groups were the focus of GPs' anger at the local medical committees conference. Mark Gould reports
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Health economists in glass houses...
As a consultant recently converted to a manager in the NHS, I read with interest Alan Maynard's continued attack on the medical profession (Looking Askance, 11 June). As an economist who clearly knows value for money, he should see the best way to avoid the personal greed of consultants and ...