All UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF MORECAMBE BAY NHS TRUST articles – Page 22

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    Get them while they're young

    2001-04-05T00:00:00Z

    NHS CAREERS: Meeting school pupils to promote careers in the NHS - and offering them work experience - can be satisfying for staff and may even reduce drop-out rates from healthcare courses. Sue Smith explains

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    in person

    2001-02-22T00:00:00Z

    Steve Graham OBE has been appointed director of operations at the Commission for Health Improvement with responsibility for ensuring the clinical governance review programme is delivered on time. Until recently he was in charge of the Royal Navy base at Portsmouth.

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    Wheeler dealers

    2001-02-22T00:00:00Z

    The ever-tightening grip of hospital-acquired infections is leading many experts to call for a public health role within trusts. Ann McGauran reports

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    in person

    2000-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Management consultant Martin Hugh Vandersteen has been appointed chair of Barts and the London trust.He takes over from board member Elsie Gilding, who has been acting chair for four months.

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    in person

    2000-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Dr Paulene Pearson has been elected chair of the 18,000-strong Community Practitioners and Health Vistors Association. She takes over from Denise Campbell who stands down after two years in the post.

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    in person

    2000-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Dame Barbara Mills, former director of public prosecutions, has been appointed a non-executive director of the Royal Free and Hampstead trust.

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    Talk about the speeches

    2000-10-12T00:00:00Z

    If there is one theme to emerge from the Institute of Healthcare Management's annual conference, it is the sense of disappointment that the new organisation has not achieved the profile or the influence that it might have done.

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    Pump up the volume

    2000-09-21T00:00:00Z

    Claims that the NHS was on the verge of crisis helped break the petrol tankers' blockades. Was the health service used and abused? Lyn Whitfield and Mark Gould investigate

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    'Red alert' removed as petrol crisis ends

    2000-09-21T00:00:00Z

    The NHS was taken off 'red alert' on Monday as fuel supplies started to return to normal following the blockade of oil refineries.

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    'Climate of fear' mars push to create PCTs

    2000-07-20T00:00:00Z

    The government is at risk of 'derailing' its own reform of primary care, according to research by the NHS Alliance.

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    Speed bumps

    2000-06-29T00:00:00Z

    The pressure is on for PCGs to convert to trust status, but many of those who oppose the move argue that it's too much too soon. Daloni Carlisle reports

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    in person

    2000-05-25T00:00:00Z

    Dr Susanna Lawrence has been appointed chair of Leeds health authority. She is a practising GP in Chapeltown, a member of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence, and was previously a nonexecutive director of the HA.

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    In person

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Brendan Ryan has been appointed medical director at South Manchester University Hospitals trust. He succeeds Dr Philip Jones, who stepped down recently after a period of ill-health. Mr Ryan is a consultant in accident and emergency medicine and was formerly one of two trust associate medical directors.

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    NHS told to recruit 1,000 from New Deal

    1999-10-28T00:00:00Z

    Managers have been given strict deadlines to recruit 1,000 unemployed people into the NHS after official figures revealed a poor uptake of the New Deal welfare-to-work scheme.

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    Variations enigma

    1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

    general practice:

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    Primary care indicators project: who took part

    1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

    Each HA's allocated number provides the key to the bar charts.

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    Breast screening halted in Cumbria

    1999-04-15T00:00:00Z

    Health service managers were due to hold crisis talks this week after breast screening services in one of England's most sparsely populated counties collapsed.

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    monitor

    1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

    The National Institute for Clinical Excellence has been up and running since 9am and already Monitor is bored with the New NHS. Time to move on from NICE to NASTY - and the big question: just who will get the top job at the Commission for Health Improvement? Monitor can ...

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    Quarter of PCGs start without a chief executive

    1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

    One primary care group in four will go live today without a chief executive in post, an HSJ survey has revealed.

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    All hands on deck

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    The former admiral seconded to Ashworth Hospital in the wake of the damning Fallon report has his work cut out. Laura Donnelly looks at the options