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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Health service must offer 1,000 jobs in first stage of New Deal scheme
The NHS will be expected to provide at least 1,000 jobs and training places for unemployed people as its initial contribution to the government's New Deal scheme, and will be expected to deliver more in future, managers have been told.
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where are they now? No 80 Iris Isbister
Pocket Profile: Personal friend of deposed Tory Scottish secretary Michael Forsyth and former chair of Forth Valley health board, who resigned amid a bitter row over an acute services review.
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Controversial ACHCEW chief takes Labour whip in Lords
Community health councils chief Toby Harris has been made a working peer, taking the Labour whip in the Lords.
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In Brief: Ban on tobacco advertising and sponsorship
A Europe-wide ban on tobacco advertising and sponsorship has been approved. The EU council of ministers formally adopted a directive on Monday banning 'all forms of commercial communication or sponsorship with the aim or effect of promoting a tobacco product' by 2006.
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Family affair
Aneurin and Billy Bevan, nephews of post-war Labour health minister Nye Bevan, who founded the NHS, at the commemorative stones in the hills above Tredegar marking their uncle's achievements.
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Human resources strategy sets targets to cut attacks against staff
Health service managers are to be set targets for cutting levels of staff sickness and violence against staff. And they will be expected to deliver 'measurable improvements' in occupational health.