All Whittington Health NHS Trust articles – Page 11

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    Trafford Healthcare trust urged to restore confidence

    2008-11-13T09:00:00Z

    A trust that withdrew the offer of a chief executive's job two weeks after announcing the appointment has been told it should be open about the reasons.

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    Suspicious fire closes A&E department

    2001-04-12T00:00:00Z

    London's University College Hospital was forced to close its accident and emergency department after fire broke out in the early hours of Thursday morning.

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    in person

    2001-02-15T00:00:00Z

    Phil Taylor has been appointed regional director of finance for Trent region, having been acting director since last April.He was previously acting chief executive of Northern General Hospital trust, where he had also been finance director and deputy chief executive.

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    In Brief

    2000-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Dr Elizabeth Vallance, former chair of St George's Healthcare trust, is to succeed Sir William Reid as chair of the advisory committee on distinction awards in England and Wales. The committee advises on awards to individual consultants for 'outstanding work' in the NHS.

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    in person

    2000-10-12T00:00:00Z

    Deborah Wheeler has been appointed director of nursing at Whittington Hospital trust. She previously held the same post at Bromley Hospitals trust.

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    Sign up

    2000-08-24T00:00:00Z

    Yasmin Coskun (left), an advocate and translator, examines a talking sign at the Whittington Hospital in London with patient Hawa Ozkaya.

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    in person

    2000-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Melvyn Ellis will be leaving Herefordshire health authority at the end of October to become chief executive of South Staffordshire health authority. Mr Ellis has worked in Herefordshire for almost five years and seen through a number of developments, including a new hospital for Hereford.

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    The short goodbye

    2000-06-08T00:00:00Z

    You give 20 or more years of your life to the NHS and they give you a couple of hours to clear your desk. Janet Snell talks to some former chief executives who know how it feels

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    Otherwise engaged

    2000-03-30T00:00:00Z

    In the light of the Fritchie report, the health secretary has proposed changes to the appointments system that will fundamentally alter the relationship between HAs and trusts. Paul Stephenson reports

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    Vacuum task

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Are the candidates for London mayor ignoring health as an issue? As the election - and HSJ's own mayoral debate - approaches, Mark Gould finds out

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    Climbing out of the chair

    2000-03-09T00:00:00Z

    Health service managers will be familiar with trust chairs taking a hands-on approach, but one has swapped roles entirely - and become a chief executive. Kaye McIntosh reports

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    The beds at Bart's. . .

    2000-02-24T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    A class act

    2000-02-24T00:00:00Z

    Clinical governance has made quality assurance training relevant to a wider group of healthcare professionals. Claire Laurent outlines the options

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    CHI won't take action in wrong kidney incident

    2000-02-03T00:00:00Z

    The Commission for Health Improvement is unlikely to use its investigative 'teeth' in the first high-profile medical 'blunder' to come to light since its inception.

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    Campaign launched to reassure patients of millennium readiness

    1999-11-25T00:00:00Z

    A £70,000 campaign has been launched to reassure the public that London's NHS will not break down over the millennium. Health authorities are to send out 4 million leaflets on health services over the holiday.

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    Big red rooster fends off the chickens

    1999-10-21T00:00:00Z

    POLITICS

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    NHS beware Tory Foxtrot with a Trojan horse

    1999-10-14T00:00:00Z

    It's hard to concentrate on, say, Tory conference health policy when there is so much distracting noise offstage. All last week in Blackpool we could hear Lady Thatcher, Ken Clarke and Co banging around on the conference fringe like ageing rock stars.

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    A feather in his cap as His Dobship turns again

    1999-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Despite persistent conference rumours in Bournemouth, I was completely wrong-footed by Frank Dobson's change of heart over the London mayor's job. I was not alone. The night before it emerged in the Sunday Telegraph , Jack Straw said on Radio 4's Any Questions that Nick Raynsford, the minister who had ...

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    In person

    1999-07-15T00:00:00Z

    Jonathan Parry is the new chief executive of Southport and Ormskirk Hospital trust, formed by a merger of West Lancashire trust and Southport and Formby Community Health Services trust, which he used to lead.