All Health Service Journal articles in 2001-02-22 – Page 4

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    THE PERSUADERS

    2001-02-22T00:00:00Z

    Name David Hinchliffe MP Job Chair, Commons health select committee Style Old Labour with added influence. Wakefield MP with mining ancestors going back to 1750s. Not afraid to put matters bluntly, 'as a Yorkshireman. . . 'Not afraid of much else either, as tobacco barons called before the select committee ...

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    Taking the rough with the smooth

    2001-02-22T00:00:00Z

    The return-to-practice course run by Oxford Brookes University helped Melanie Miller-Smith, 43, to restart her nursing career a year ago, after a 10-year break. Having spent nine years living abroad with her husband and three children, she was eager to get back to nursing when the family returned to the ...

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    Weathering the storm

    2001-02-22T00:00:00Z

    Extreme climate changes are posing a major challenge for the NHS. Can it cope, asks Lynn Eaton

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    Who's watching?

    2001-02-22T00:00:00Z

    There is no shortage of pressing topics that could potentially occupy an enthusiastic trust public health director. It is over a year since the publication of the National Audit Office report The Management and Control of Hospital Acquired Infection in Acute NHS Trusts in England.

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    Socket to them

    2001-04-19T00:00:00Z

    The NHS does an outstanding job making artificial eyes for patients who need them. But, as Laura Donnelly discovered, There is a lot more to the service than that