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Cut to the quick
PRIMARY CARE TRUSTS: A primary care trust's bid to collaborate with other PCTs and its local hospitals has sped up the service to patients within the GP setting as well as improving access to hospitals.Lesley Hill and Ian Rutter report
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Of one mind
WORKFORCE PLANNING: With so many locum consultants coming from overseas, one region set about integrating them into the workforce through a course covering the workings of the NHS and its duties.Jo Wood and colleagues report
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Obstacle course
MENTAL HEALTH: The mental health workforce is ready and willing to deliver a radical agenda, but is it able to? A Sainsbury Centre study found many organisational barriers preventing staff from putting their skills into practice. Lesley Warner and colleag
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IN PERSON
Tony Shaw, chief executive of Southampton and South West Hampshire health authority, has been appointed head of careers management at the NHS Executive.He will work alongside NHS chief executive Nigel Crisp on the development of senior NHS and Department of Health leadership.Les Judd, currently director of development at the health ...
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Events
Improving healthcare 10 October, North West 17 October, Northern and Yorkshire 30 October, Trent 8 November, Eastern 14 November, London 4 December, South West 'Improving healthcare, implementing change - but how?' is a series of regional NHS Alliance meetings for primary care organisations to discuss how to seize the commissioning ...
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MONITOR
Monitor doesn't like to brag. While sweaty, pock-marked NHS managers grapple with high finance and clinical governance issues, it hardly seems fair to boast of glitzy invitations - temptations which come with penning a society column of this sort. But when an invitation landed in Monitor's 'party invite' intray from ...
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Dear Mel. . .
In a recent letter to HSJ (20 September, page 20) you appear to have been accused of homophobia. How do you react to this accusation ?
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Cut and thrust
WAIT WATCHER: Orthopaedic surgery is the battleground in which the government could win or lose the battle to reduce waiting times. But there are no quick fixes, warns John Yates