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in person Professor Ray Robinson
Professor Ray Robinson is to join the British Dental Association to work alongside its newly formed policy directorate.He will help develop its strategic policy-making as well as provide external health input on oral health issues.
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Events
Annual conference 24 October, Birmingham The Primary Care Learning Association is holding its annual conference with a range of speakers discussing how to address some difficult but commonly presented issues in education, training and development. Topics include primary care trusts and their role in learning, developing a training strategy, stress ...
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up and running
Enovation: Despite earlier hopes of a brave new world for speech-recognition systems, technical difficulties have led to a slow take-up in business and the health service.Is the pace about to get faster?
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boom bang a bang
When Big Ben chimed in the year 2000, the technology sector was the 'new economy', an apparent economic miracle. It took just over a year for received wisdom to see it as a disaster.
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Capital's health divide widens
Health gaps between rich and poor are still growing across London, despite the government's much publicised pledge to cut them by 2010, according to a report.
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Trust clinches PFI deal for medical equipment
A trust which opened a new private finance initiative-funded hospital earlier this year has now signed the first major separate PFI deal to provide medical equipment.
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Days like this
Tory pledge endorsed- Jowell predicts 'trolley'election - IT cash row- Consultants unhappy- GPs'ad -Tomlinson to head hospitals inquiry NHS chief executive Duncan Nichol's public endorsement of the Conservative Party's key message on the eve of its annual conference - that the NHS will not be privatised - has divided managers.
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card sharp
Could ID cards open up health records to patients, or are they an infringement of civil liberties, asks Lyn Whitfield Swindon - officially the most 'average' place in the country - was briefly a hotbed of smartcard technology.
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Compensation win for 'grossly dishonoured' nurse
The High Court has awarded compensation of £140,000 for stress and overwork to a nurse employed by Hastings and Rother trust, saying the trust had 'grossly dishonoured' its promise that she could gradually ease back into her ward sister role after having a baby.Trust chief executive Geoff Haynes said initiatives ...