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Handle with care
How the NHS treats its workforce is now seen as central to recruiting and retaining staff.The health service is on notice to deliver.Ann McGauran reports
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'Cutting corners, cutting children'
The organ retention scandal saw a public apology from the chief medical officer last week as, yet again, the medical profession stands accused of acting with arrogance and insensitivity. Paul Stephenson reports
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Putting the records straight
'In the absence of an adequate system to record and monitor the numbers and circumstances of deaths, the detection of Shipman's high numbers of deaths was dependent on the chance of observations of individual practitioners or medical referees. . . they [medical referees] only have their own memories to help ...
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THE PERSUADERS
Name: Sian Griffiths OBE Job: Director of public health, Oxfordshire health authority; president elect, Royal College of Physicians' faculty of public health medicine.
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Stiff warning to the minister as he runs into trouble with bill stickers
In their first week back at Westminster in 2001 MPs spent 10 hours of prime time discussing the NHS, mostly on the second reading of the Health and Social Care Bill. Yet I doubt if any of their words, wise or foolish, will have the same impact as that shocking ...
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Going to the devil
A significant proportion of managers are also nurses - but great suspicion still exists between the two groups.Andrew Cole delves into the background to the distrust
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Wide open to criticism
Sometimes, it seems, managers go out of their way to live up to the stereotypes that nurses attach to them.
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On the horns of a dilemma
Shared governance - a US term describing a process of involving staff at all levels in decision-making - could be one way of breaking the stand-off between nurses and managers.
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Level crossings
Ever since Florence Nightingale arrived in the Crimea, nurses have been involved in managing health services. But these days nurses who take on managerial responsibility have a more ambiguous role.
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Without prejudice
What do managers want from nurses and vice versa? Chief executive Alan Randall and nursing adviser Eileen Shepherd give some pointers
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Care to talk?
A conversation with a nurse revealed the dire state of care for elderly patients on her ward.Jayne Lingard wonders why she feels she can do nothing about it