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in person
Julie Wells, an independent consultant and former director at Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire health authorities, has been appointed European development manager for health in a collaboration between East and West Kent HAs and the European Institute of Social Services at Kent University.
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RISE IN TEEN SEX: Sex services cannot cope with demand! So boomed last week's Hackney Gazette, conjuring up images of exhausted managers unable to keep up with the voracious appetites of the young. Dully, though, the story turns out to be to do with the rising problem of teenage pregnancy. ...
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Medical secretaries act over pay grading
Medical secretaries across the NHS could resort to industrial action as anger deepens over their continuing grading dispute.
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Directors of finance count cost
NHS finance directors are working an average of 12 hours a day, often six days a week. And an increasing number are taking on responsibility for other areas of work, according to a survey by the NHS organisation, Pay and Workforce Research.
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Days like this
Clinicians need to decide whether a treatment is 'worth having'before admitting patients on to a waiting list, NHS chief executive Duncan Nichol has urged. They should agree protocols to decide what treatment should be offered on the NHS and at what stage it should be available. 'Of course, such protocols ...
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Plane speaking
Will a National Patient Safety Agency create confusion in the clinical governance era? Chief medical officer Professor Liam Donaldson speaks exclusively to Laura Donnelly about why urgent action was needed
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Still counting: the 'no-blame'ethos
Northern and Yorkshire regional office recorded more serious incidents than any other region in 1998, Organisations with a Memory reveals.