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NewsTest doctors' skills more often, Andy Burnham urges
Doctors’ skills should be checked as often as airline pilots’ to ensure they can perform under pressure as well as Captain Chesley Sullenberger, health secretary Andy Burnham said today.
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NewsEssex PCT to begin offloading GP surgeries
NHS South West Essex is seeking alternative providers to take over and run some of its general practices.
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NewsHealth Foundation announces quality improvement scheme
The Health Foundation is offering 18 funded places on a new quality improvement leadership scheme.
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NewsTrust reviews data security measures after laptop theft
The theft of a laptop computer containing the records of 33,000 patients has led Southampton University Hospitals Trust to review data security procedures.
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NewsCall to scrap compulsory retirement age
People should be allowed to work longer and everyone should have the right to ask for flexible working arrangements, the government has been told.
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HSJ Knowledge
Mental health in further education
The healthy further education steering group was launched in 2008 to meet the health needs of those studying and working in the further education sector.
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS careers
NHS Careers, the careers information service for the NHS in England, has recently celebrated its 10th anniversary. Launched in 1999 by the Department of Health to help fill nursing and midwifery vacancies, NHS Careers has evolved into a service supporting more than 350 different careers in the NHS via a ...
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NewsDarling signals pay restraint for top NHS managers
Chancellor Alistair Darling has signalled that generous pay and bonus packages for top public sector posts will have to be reduced to preserve jobs.
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NewsDH names older people's and dementia tsars
Professor Alistair Burns and Professor David Oliver have been appointed to new directorships in the Department of Health, it has been announced.
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HSJ KnowledgeNHS joint appointments: are two heads better than one?
Joint appointments are on the increase across health and care organisations. Carmel Gibbons looks at why
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HSJ KnowledgeImproving your website: lessons from the commercial world
Effective web pages that have readers acting on your messages and returning for more are achieved by following some simple principles, says Jed Wylie
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CommentSteve Preston on using social networking to boost your career
By getting yourself known on the web, you can develop key contacts and advance your career.
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HSJ KnowledgeNHS improvement: find the right ways to do things differently
With trusts under increasing pressure to improve performance on tighter finances there are some aspects they should all be tackling now, says David McArtney
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Blogs
'No other nation has had the chance to refashion its hospitals so comprehensively'
The Hospital Plan will determine for many years to come the broad lines of development of the hospital service.
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NewsPeterborough PCT chief steps down as deficits pile high
The chief executive of NHS Peterborough has resigned, admitting she “cannot shirk responsibility” for its growing deficit.
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NewsPolice probes deaths at mental health trust as chief exec announces departure
Police have launched an investigation into the deaths of four patients who were under the care of a Sussex mental health trust.
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NewsPCT benefits from ambitious knowledge and skills framework redesign
A Yorkshire primary care trust has successfully transformed the knowledge and skills framework into a tool to aid workforce planning and boost productivity.
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NewsAdvisory panel for BME cancer patients
Black and minority ethnic cancer patients are to be given a greater voice through a new advisory panel.
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NewsTough new standards for STI clinics
Tough new standards have been announced for sexual health services across the UK.
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NewsDavid Nicholson predicts tough NHS pay negotiations
Workers in parts of the NHS can expect pay rises below 1 per cent in coming years, NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson has indicated.