All Community articles – Page 8
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CommunityLookey-Likey: Joe Farrington-Douglas and Ryan Reynolds
NHS Confederation senior policy manager Joe Farrington-Douglas has not been moonlighting as a Hollywood actor - it’s his lookalike Ryan Reynolds.
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CommunityLord Darzi, porter
It has come to the attention of End Game that professor of surgery at Imperial College London and former health minister Lord Darzi once spent a day secretly working as a hospital porter.
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CommunityToo cool for the NHS
End Game wonders how trusts will respond to last week’s revelation that younger staff feel the NHS lacks street cred.
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CommunityTalking the health economics talk
Pleasing to learn that health economists, occasionally accused of being in a world of their own, at least share an international language.
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Betsi Cadwaladr University Local Health Board
Congratulations to Betsi Cadwaladr University Local Health Board, which will take over from the North Wales Trust and a clutch of smaller local health boards under the NHS Wales reorganisation.
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CommunityFT love letters
Outgoing Monitor executive chair Bill Moyes took on an emotional tone, uncharacteristic both for himself and Foundation Trust Network conferences, at a network event last week.
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CommunityFormer minister suffers art attack
The Department of Health has been economising on its art collection - although whether by accident or as part of a planned recession busting measure remains unclear.
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CommunitySwine flu love-in
Congratulations to the Department of Health for continuing to be transparent about its pandemic swine flu plans through holding its weekly love-in between the hacks from the nationals and the chief medical officer.
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Mike Farrar: dancer
When End Game jokily suggested that NHS North West chief executive Mike Farrar might partner up with TV’s Arlene Phillips in his new role as NHS health champion, little did we know that he was already an accomplished dancer.
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Goldie takes on social care
A campaign to promote social work careers has been wheeling out the great and good from celeb-land.
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CommunityTrade union boss gets suited and booted
It appears that the head of the Royal College of Nursing has finally dispensed with the union tag that went with the job, and has adopted a more managerial soubriquet.
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CommunityTop secret
HSJ last week wrote about West Sussex PCT challenging two foundation trusts’ boards to meet in public.
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CommunityAunt’s agony
The end of last week saw a negative report from the Patients Association on the state of NHS nursing, in which it cherry picked a few bad cases.
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CommunityHSJ Offer - Free cinema tickets to see Julie & Julia
Registered users can get free cinema tickets to see the new film Julie & Julia. Sign in now to claim your free tickets. Hurry, tickets are limited
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Czar toppled
End Game hears that swine flu czar Ian Dalton encountered dangerous farmyard animals of a different kind last week, becoming the latest high profile dog walker to become the unfortunate victim of a herd of cows.
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CommunityHSJ Offer - Free cinema tickets to see 500 Days Of Summer
Registered users can get free cinema tickets to see the new film 500 Days of Summer. Sign in now to claim your free tickets. Hurry, tickets are limited
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CommunityJoin the HSJ research panel and win prizes
Welcome to the Health Service Journal Market Research site. On this page you can apply to join one of our new HSJ online research panels, for which you can win prizes!
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CommunityLookey-likey: swine flu and the Girl Guides
The swine flu logo used by junior doctors’ pressure group Remedy UK would not be out of place on the front cover of a Stephen King novel.