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Low pay and poor working conditions, but the reward is helping to deliver high-quality care
While I agree with Simone Plaut's view (Letters, 4 June) that managerial, secretarial, financial and maintenance professionals in healthcare would not generally have a direct patient interaction role, I would point out that in the case of medical secretaries, it is highly likely that they will interact with patients frequently, ...
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Laying to rest the question of funding - in beds for those in and outside Herefordshire
Your news story (page 7, 4 June) on Herefordshire Community Health trust's funding problems was largely accurate, but the health authority never expected the trust to run a new 32-bed hospital for the same money as an old 18-bed hospital.
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Involve the voluntary sector in new PCGs
Like many of your readers I am interested in the formation of primary care groups - especially since the timescale for introducing them is relatively short.
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Is the use of such data 'new or true' ?
John Appleby (Data briefing, 4 June) is misleadingly dismissive of the substantial body of evidence suggesting a causal relationship between income inequality, poor health and raised mortality.
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Situations vacant
Twenty years ago, the brightest and best medical graduates were queuing up to become GPs. Today, general practice is acknowledged to be in serious difficulties. The number of young doctors entering GP training schemes fell by more than 20 per cent in the 10 years to October 1997, more doctors ...
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The out-of-hours doctor who quit general practice to 'get a life'
Paddy Glackin spent two years as a GP principal in north London before deciding he wanted 'to get a life'. Now he works for two London out-of- hours co-operatives and often takes time off to travel abroad.
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The locum who switched to the private sector in a search for 'consistency'
The uncertain future of general practice in the NHS was one of the factors that made Kevin Ling switch to the private sector.
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Attracting more young GPs: successful schemes in County Durham and south London
County Durham has one of the oldest established schemes to attract young GPs. Now entering its third year, 'Career Start' has already offered 15 vocationally trained GPs the opportunity to sample work in general practice without making a life-long commitment to one surgery. Two have now taken up partnerships within ...
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The public health specialist who fled 'marriage' to half- a-dozen GP partners
A growing interest in public health and a dissatisfaction with general practice led Steve Hajioff to make a major career change in his 30s.
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Building to scale
One of the new Primary Care Act pilot sites, Community Health Sheffield trust in partnership with a Sheffield inner city GP practice, is developing a 'salaried practice'. This raises several issues, including developing the GP salary scale, GPs' fears about their relationship with the trust, and concerns about management and ...
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Whine lists
GPs are now said to be working harder than ever - but are things really so bad? Fifty years ago the average GP had a list of 3,000 patients.The average figure masked the fact that huge numbers of GPs had larger lists, sometimes much larger.
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Fears of Treasury meddling with IM&T
Leading computing suppliers fear that Treasury interference with the coming NHS IM&T strategy will leave unsolved their main problem - the byzantine procurement procedures imposed on trusts wanting to spend more than a trivial sum on their IT projects.
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'Reforms to blame' for upheaval in Scotland
Conflicting reforms are set to cause a major IT upheaval in Scotland's NHS, according to Unison.
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in brief
Siemens Healthcare Services is conducting a 'full strategy review' of all its products, including the flagship Open-PAS patient administration system. A spokesperson said all aspects of the company's business operations were being examined by the new managing director, Robin Williams, who arrived in a shake-up last month. Siemens will announce ...
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Sir Alan Langlands
The NHS chief executive gains a knighthood in the NHS's 50th anniversary year. Sir Alan has been chief executive since 1994, when he succeeded Sir Duncan Nichol, having served as his deputy. Sir Alan is a former general manager of North West Thames regional health authority.
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Analyst warns that hospital merger savings are an illusion
Government hopes of saving pounds50,000 with every hospital merger are largely illusory, a leading health policy analyst warned last week.
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Picture this
Picture this: Pat Long was one of 40 students showing their art work at an exhibition in Leeds for participants in a course for people with mental illness. The exhibition, part-funded by Leeds Community and Mental Health Services trust, included drawings, paintings, collages and sculptures. Course co-ordinator Phil Hopkins said: ...