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Dead-end job: is pay the real scandal?
After 10 years in the responsible job of a senior anatomical pathology technician,39-year-old Danny Corry is on a salary of just £13,500 a year.Fully qualified, with a diploma in anatomical pathology technology from the prestigious Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene, Mr Corry works from 8am until 4.30pm five ...
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Days like this
Health authorities throughout the country are still embroiled in contract disputes as the deadline for implementing the internal market looms on 1 April.
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HR directors overwhelmed by flow of 'daily' initiatives
Directors of human resources are working an average 10-12 hourday, an NHS survey has revealed.
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Costs force trusts to reject scanner offers
Scottish trusts have been forced to turn down new MRI scanners designed to help meet cancer targets because they do not have the money to run them.
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Office conflict takes its strain
The NHS suffers a double dose of the problems associated with long hours spent at the ubiquitous computer terminal.
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'Colleagues just do not want to know'
Andrew Moultrie took a temporary job in the mortuary at Ninewells Hospital, Dundee - over 14 years ago.Now senior mortuary technical officer, at the top of scale MTO 2, he is on £16,500 and unlikely to progress further.'The only way I could get a regrading would be if we suddenly ...
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Chewing it over
A tool kit for the NHS plan By Roy Lilley Radcliffe Medical Press 203 pages £30
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So farewell, Casualty Watch
Was its success a factor in government determination to abolish CHCs?
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Careers drive to link professions
Middle-ranking NHS managers have been invited to join a government career development programme, aimed at creating 'future leaders' in the public sector.
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Nurse care on trial returns verdict of 'not proven'
Although randomised controlled trials are the rule for new drugs, they are less in evidence when novel procedures are being introduced - and a positive rarity when testing major organisational change.
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Private firms could run as well as finance primary care centres
Private companies providing finance to develop primary care premises may play a key role in the managing of the centres in what could amount to a national franchise for primary care.
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Genome giant spells out vision of brave new world
The annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science was dominated this year by matters genetic - no surprise, given that it came so soon after the publication of the draft sequence of the human genome.
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Milburn stands to gain as countryside goes to blazes
Did you happen to watch Sunday night's edition of Panorama, Vivian White's film about the state of A&E at St Peter's Hospital outside Chertsey in affluent Surrey? I mention it to contrast its tone with some of the weekend's other media reporting on the NHS as election day approaches.
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Blair-faced cheek
Do the Department of Health's political masters wield undue influence on the management of the NHS? Alison Moore dares to ask
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Scottish staff praised for response to bad weather
The chief executive of the NHS in Scotland has praised staff for their overwhelming response to winter pressures, saying that some even worked double and triple shifts during the recent bad weather.Trevor Jones said that while working such long hours was not 'encouraged', he was impressed with the commitment shown ...
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Losing the way with backseat drivers
Saving money on medicines The drugs budget handbook By Penny Blanch Radcliffe Medical Press 271 pages £19.95