All Off Diary articles – Page 7
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CommunityLord Darzi, porter
It has come to the attention of End Game that professor of surgery at Imperial College London and former health minister Lord Darzi once spent a day secretly working as a hospital porter.
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Community
On the menu
Flamboyant chef Keith Floyd may have died this month but his memory is living on, at least in one hospital.
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Community
Betsi Cadwaladr University Local Health Board
Congratulations to Betsi Cadwaladr University Local Health Board, which will take over from the North Wales Trust and a clutch of smaller local health boards under the NHS Wales reorganisation.
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CommunityTalking the health economics talk
Pleasing to learn that health economists, occasionally accused of being in a world of their own, at least share an international language.
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CommunityFormer minister suffers art attack
The Department of Health has been economising on its art collection - although whether by accident or as part of a planned recession busting measure remains unclear.
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CommunityFT love letters
Outgoing Monitor executive chair Bill Moyes took on an emotional tone, uncharacteristic both for himself and Foundation Trust Network conferences, at a network event last week.
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CommunityTrade union boss gets suited and booted
It appears that the head of the Royal College of Nursing has finally dispensed with the union tag that went with the job, and has adopted a more managerial soubriquet.
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Community
Goldie takes on social care
A campaign to promote social work careers has been wheeling out the great and good from celeb-land.
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Community
Mike Farrar: dancer
When End Game jokily suggested that NHS North West chief executive Mike Farrar might partner up with TV’s Arlene Phillips in his new role as NHS health champion, little did we know that he was already an accomplished dancer.
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CommunitySwine flu love-in
Congratulations to the Department of Health for continuing to be transparent about its pandemic swine flu plans through holding its weekly love-in between the hacks from the nationals and the chief medical officer.
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CommunityAunt’s agony
The end of last week saw a negative report from the Patients Association on the state of NHS nursing, in which it cherry picked a few bad cases.
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CommunityTop secret
HSJ last week wrote about West Sussex PCT challenging two foundation trusts’ boards to meet in public.
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Community
Czar toppled
End Game hears that swine flu czar Ian Dalton encountered dangerous farmyard animals of a different kind last week, becoming the latest high profile dog walker to become the unfortunate victim of a herd of cows.
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CommunityClimate change confusion
Civil servants are notorious sticklers for detail, but one glaring blooper somehow made it past Whitehall quality control.
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Community
Chlamydia cinema
After NHS Hull controversially bought a yacht as part of a youth development scheme, it appears other primary care trusts have come up with equally innovative approaches to improving public health. Or, as the Daily Mail put it, they have taken the opportunity “to blow taxpayers’ money in more imaginative ...
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CommunityBad language
Unsolicited press releases bearing little relation to health policy and management have a tendency to annoy busy HSJ journalists, but rarely do they offend or shock.
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CommunityUnder current
NHS Choices contains handy advice for members of the public who fear that they may have symptoms of swine flu, with details on death rates and extra help for high risk groups.
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