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A question of image
The government is spending pounds1.2m on a national recruitment campaign aimed at 'blowing away the cobwebs of old-fashioned perceptions of nurses and midwives'. After phase one of 'Nursing, Have You Got What it Takes?' was launched at the start of last year there were 16,000 enquires about a nursing career, ...
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The image of nursing
The government is spending pounds1.2m on a national recruitment campaign aimed at 'blowing away the cobwebs of old-fashioned perceptions of nurses and midwives'. After phase one of 'Nursing, Have You Got What it Takes?' was launched at the start of last year there were 16,000 enquires about a nursing career, ...
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Hansard
The government is 'deeply concerned about the possibility of unfairness in the distinction awards scheme' for consultants, and is 'considering what further action might be taken', said health minister Alan Milburn in response to High Peak Labour MP Tom Levitt, who asked if merit awards would be investigated.
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When the going gets tough
One in four nurses will be eligible for retirement in the next two years and places out number applicants for nurse training.
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When the going gets tough
Maintaining the supply of nurses has been compared to pouring water into a leaking bucket. The NHS furiously recruits more people so that it can keep on pouring, and now and again there are attempts to patch up the leak. Things improved during the first part of the 1990s, but ...
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Takers and leavers - recruitment facts
The Royal College of Nursing puts current nurse turnover at 21 per cent (compared with 14 per cent in 1987 and 12 per cent in 1992).
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Takers and leavers - recruitment facts
The Royal College of Nursing puts current nurse turnover at 21 per cent (compared with 14 per cent in 1987 and 12 per cent in 1992 )
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Earthbound and liable to erupt
Health secretary Frank Dobson and the cerebral MP for York Hugh Bayley are old friends; together with public health minister Tessa Jowell, they form a trio of ex-Camden councillors who have become key players in New Labour's health agenda.
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A special dispensation
A scheme allowing hospital patients to administer their own drugs has been well received and has brought substantial savings.
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Total commitment
GPs and senior managers in a deprived locality tested GP commissioning with successful outcomes. Roger Levesley describes the project
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Clark sets up public services panel
Focus groups are the flavour of the month in government circles. The latest - dubbed, inevitably, 'the People's Panel' - has been set up by public services minister David Clark.
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Five key questions are asked during the assessment
Does the patient want to take part in the self-medication scheme?
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LibDems call in safe-sex guide academic to rewrite manifesto
A former chief executive of the Health Education Authority, who quit after falling out with Conservative government ministers over a 'smutty' safe sex guide for children, is to help the Liberal Democrats overhaul their health policy.
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TENDER IS THE SLIGHT
In Pat Healy's article regarding the invitation to tender for legal services for the Association of Community Health Councils for England and Wales (News, page 9, 22 January), it is suggested that public law is a specialist legal area not usually practised by commercial solicitors. While I do not comment ...
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Time to see some results
Health secretary Frank Dobson’s stock has risen since his uneasy debut last summer (see Politics, page 21). But that won’t last long if he has to preside over many more announcements of large increases in waiting lists. Figures for England showing just that were expected as the Journal went to ...
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