Organisers of a reunion for former NHS management trainees are appealing for help in tracking down graduates of the scheme. Around 2,000 high-flyers are thought to have passed through the programme over the past 41 years, but accurate records of who they are and where they are exist only for the past decade. Former trainees should contact Howard Lyons, tel: 01923- 825634 (email: howardlyons@msn.com) for more information.

The NHS Confederation is consulting on proposals to streamline its structure and become more cost-effective. If the plans are approved, the organisation will have a single chair and hold an assembly, in addition to the annual conference, for members to discuss policy issues.

Pinderfields and Pontefract Hospitals trust has suspended consultant general surgeon Christopher Ingoldby and commissioned an independent clinical review after an internal review 'identified concerns about a small number of patients who had been under his care'.

Health authorities have been urged by Anchor Trust to 'put housing at the heart' of health improvement programmes and set targets to reduce cold-related deaths.

Killer Homes. Anchor Trust, tel: 01865-854085. Free.

A man who held his former psychiatrist hostage at knifepoint for 90 minutes inside her hospital was ordered to be detained indefinitely under the Mental Health Act last week. Edward Coveney, 25, of London, had gone to Guy's Hospital on 21 March to see a particular doctor. But when he was not there, he turned on his former psychiatrist, Emma Sedgewick. He pleaded guilty to false imprisonment and having a kitchen knife as an offensive weapon.