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Opportunity knocked
OPEN SPACE: Despite a crippling shortage of nurses, Maggie Oldham says the NHS is continuing to ignore a rich source of recruitment - asylum seekers
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On the look-out
MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES: A survey of medium-secure units raises questions about their planned growth, report Jeff Jaycock and Tony Bamber
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IN PERSON
Graeme Betts has been appointed chief executive of Hillingdon primary care trust.He is currently London borough of Hillingdon director of social services and has been on secondment as acting PCT chief executive since last month.He has worked in social services departments in Coventry and other London boroughs.Mr Betts replaces David ...
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Silent witness
NEWS FOCUS: Nightly bombing raids have made Afghanistan a perilous place - but the country's inability to feed its people and care for the sick means a cruel fate awaits even those who survive the onslaught.Tash Shifrin reports
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Barefoot doctors
NEWS FOCUS: Doctors, dentists and nurses are living in poverty in the UK.They are the refugees and asylum seekers who, a year ago, were promised a welcome by the hard-pressed NHS.But as Daloni Carlisle reports, little seems to have happened since then
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The odd couple
LAW SPECIAL REPORT: The government is proposing changes to the regulations governing staff transfers in response to the ongoing row over PFI in the NHS. Daniel Lee explains the proposed route through the legal minefield
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You have got bail
LAW SPECIAL REPORT: E-mail may give an illusion of privacy, but employers and employees can easily find themselves on sticky legal ground, as Steve Mathieson explains
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Bully beefs
LAW SPECIAL REPORT: Bullying allegations can come from almost any direction. Constant vigilance is the only defence, says Jo Plumstead
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The rights stuff
LAW SPECIAL REPORT: Now the Human Rights Act 1998 is up and running, David Owens and Susan Thompson wonder what it means in practice for the NHS
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Extra time
Tony Blair has famously pledged to bring health spending up to European levels. But have the better resources put healthcare on the Continent in a different league to the UK's? And, ask John Appleby and Sean Boyle, even if comparable funding were delivere
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in person
Dallas Ariotti, currently director of clinical governance and information for University Hospital Birmingham trust, has been appointed to a new post as director of performance at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital trust. A former nurse, Ms Ariotti's previous roles have included that of principal adviser to the health minister in ...