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Shake up or ship out
Everyone who works in the NHS is used to periods of turmoil and uncertainty, and finance staff are one group that now feels under threat. The early 1990s saw an enormous growth in their number as trusts and health authorities struggled to cope with the internal market. Promotion was rapid ...
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Pastures new
Toby Harris's controversial departure from the CHC movement comes at a time of deep uncertainty over its future, writes Patrick Butler
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Skye's the limit
Airline-style bookings, where patients know the date of their hospital appointments when they leave their GP, is part of a drive to improve electronic communications in the NHS in Scotland. Barbara Millar reports
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Jobs can be made for sharing
Sue Williams and Sue Osborn work for Barking and Havering health authority and have the only chief executive job-share in the NHS.
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IHSM losses mount as turnover plummets
The Institute of Health Services Management crashed to a pounds180,000 operating loss last year as turnover dropped below pounds2m for the first time in six years and membership continued its slow downward spiral.
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Holding the line
Milton Keynes had a lively bank holiday weekend judging by calls to NHS Direct, the 24-hour helpline launched in March.
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Sue Machell: 'It's harder for women in a hospital'
Sue Machell, chief executive of Croydon Community trust, accepts that there is a different culture in the community.
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Forum to unite quality groups in healthcare
A forum bringing together national organisations offering accreditation and other quality assurance services in healthcare is to be launched next month.
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Juniors praise Milburn on time, jobs and food
Health minister Alan Milburn won a standing ovation from junior doctors last week with promises to take further action on working hours, improve access to part-time consultant posts and provide better food in trust canteens.
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Firm pulls out of PFI scheme
A contracting firm has pulled out of Scotland's flagship hospital building project a month before contracts were to be signed.
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Something of the fight?
With her appointment as shadow health secretary Ann Widdecombe's rehabilitation is complete.
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White with fear
dental nurses at Newcastle Dental Hospital's conscious sedation unit have swapped their white coats for blue polo shirts after research revealed patients' blood pressure rose if taken by staff in more traditional uniforms. The unit specialises in treating people with dental phobias.
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An end to polls and wheezes
At the 3 July meeting of the NHS Confederation, the Institute of Health Services Management and the International Hospital Federation to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the NHS, a 'leading national figure' will discuss commitment to the new vision of the NHS. Who is this leading national figure? Is it ...
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Tube driver equality win may point way for NHS
Which organisation employs the largest number of women with childcare needs? I don't know for sure, but I'd be willing to bet it's the NHS. So a woman tube train driver's landmark sex discrimination victory bears close study.
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From dinosaurs to dynamos
Regarding your feature 'Slow on the uptake' (pages 30-31, 30 April), Brighton Health Care trust introduced centralised equipment hire and a purchase plan to dramatically reduce hire expenditure last September.
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Dapper Duncan joins Doris at the sharp end
It would be fun but wrong to suggest that the flurry of activity from health ministers in the past few days - all those promised extra doctors and hospital 'death lists' - is attributable to Ann Widdecombe's promotion to the shadow Cabinet in William Hague's reshuffle.
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A 'portfolio' CV with a wide mix of experience
Andy Leary set himself a target: to become a finance director by the age of 40. On 1 June he achieved his ambition, taking up the post at Lincolnshire health authority. But his route to the job has taken him through a variety of posts at HAs and the NHS ...