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Ex-Ashworth chief admits to lack of experience in personality disorders
The former chief executive of a special hospital at the centre of drug, pornography and sexual abuse allegations admitted last week that she had no experience of patients with psychopathic disorders.
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Tories query tobacco ad ban support
Conservative MPs tried last week to ambush the government's support for a Europe-wide ban on tobacco advertising.
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Getting the message across
Getting the message across: campaigners fighting to save Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton, and Atkinson Morley Hospital took their protest to the Department of Health last week, with a petition to health secretary Frank Dobson. Plans to transfer acute services away from Queen Mary's - part of a package of measures ...
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Better health authority understanding about medical training, the potential impact of recent changes on service quality and quantity, and their cost implications.
Improved communication between trusts, the HA and GP groups about pressures on medical workloads and the potential impact on services.
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Coalition will resist HA's pounds6m cuts plan
A coalition of staff groups and health organisations has been formed to oppose a health authority's plans to save pounds6m over three years.
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NHS Confederation calls for year 2000 help
Information managers told MPs last week they needed more central support to tackle the year 2000 problem and warned them the process had to be speeded up.
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pounds1m development cash announced to upgrade top managers' training
Health officials this week unveiled plans to groom a 'cadre' of top managers and hinted at the damage done to training by past NHS reforms.
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On the record
TESSA BROOKS became director of the NHS Executive's newly created chief executive development programme last year. She joined the NHS from university and went on to work for the King's Fund in the late 1980s, where she set up its organisational audit programme.
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Past recovery
Past recovery: staff clear out Ye Oldest Chymist Shoppe in England, which was founded in Knaresborough in 1720 and closed last week. 'We just have too many chemists in a small town,' said owner Stewart Newsome. Knaresborough's chamber of trade hopes a museum might be set up on the ground ...
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London's turning
Bart's may be 'saved', but the capital's health services are revealed to be still in a state of dangerous disarray.
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Potential life saver
Potential life saver: Welsh health minister Win Griffiths meets staff at Tenby ambulance station during a tour of the integrated hospital and ambulance service run by Pembrokeshire and Derwen trust last week. A fierce campaign is being waged to stop the service being absorbed into an all-Wales ambulance trust, if ...
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Where initiative HAZ worked
'At the very least, ministers should examine whether those whose HAZ bids do not succeed could go ahead with some aspects of their proposals while decisions are made about a second wave'
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'Error' fear nurses win more staff
A trust is to improve night staffing levels after nurses warned that they were so overworked they feared making a 'fatal error'.
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Ministers need teeth to stop decay
In the fortnight between the Journal's publication of a draft version of the public health green paper (see News and News Focus, 22 January) and the official launch of Our Healthier Nation last week (see News, page 9), some of the language changed, but little of the substance.
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GPs force HA and trust to drop cuts plan
London GPs have forced a health authority and trust to drop plans to restrict doctors' access to diagnostic services.
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Newham Community Health Services trust
Newham Community Health Services trust planned to go to school this week to discuss health provision for young people. A trust board meeting was to be held at Brampton Manor School in Newham, east London, to hear students' views on services. Trust chair Peter Kenyon said the move was a ...