All STOCKPORT PCT articles – Page 4
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COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT OF THE YEAR
Winner: Sandwell Healthcare trust Runners-up: Barts and the London trust; Stockport HA
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24 reach shortlist for HSJ management awards night
Twenty-four entries in this year's HSJ Health Management Awards have reached the shortlist.
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Not just acute idea
The private finance initiative's sphere of influence is spreading far beyond the acute hospitals of the first wave - a trend further boosted by the NHS plan. Seamus Ward reports
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Days like this
Nurse suspended. . .More waiting lists. . .HEA alarm at shake-up. . .HAs launch health service lottery. . .Medical laboratory officer overpaid. . .
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Rich pickings
Health authorities and local authorities now have to assess the effects of their policies on the health of the community. Erica Ison and Sian Griffiths survey current activity in health impact assessments across the UK
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Something in the air
It's a tricky role, but the head of the new Health Development Agency is confident that success is within his grasp. Laura Donnelly met him
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in person
Janardan Sofat has been appointed as the new chair of Medway trust. He is a councillor and school governor and until recently was a nonexecutive director ofWest Kent health authority.Mr Sofat succeeds Tony Clayton, who has become dean of Greenwich University's Dartford and Medway faculty.
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The directors' cut
The medical director wields great influence and is better paid than some chief executives. But reconciling the demands of management and medicine can be tricky. Barbara Millar reports
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Monitor
Direct access rectal bleed clinics! Could anything be nicer? Stockport Acute Services trust doesn't seem to think so, announcing plans to carry out fast-track buttock checks. The logistics of such schemes make interesting reckoning, says Monitor, but in the interests of taste and decency perhaps the matter is best kept ...
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Proposed or ongoing mergers
1 Bassetlaw Hospital and Community Services trust and Doncaster Royal Infirmary and Montagu Hospital trust.
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Closed to argument
Another round of mergers is imminent - and that's before PCTs even get their feet under the table. Mark Gould wonders why managers are hell-bent on doing themselves out of jobs
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Primary care indicators project: who took part
Each HA's allocated number provides the key to the bar charts.
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WEB WATCH
What tune best sums up the primary care group challenge? Eschewing the obvious Money (or even Money, Money Money), maybe Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown would fit the bill. Not for Bexley and Greenwich PCGs, where visitors to an online PCG theme competition have inexplicably plumped for the theme tune from Neighbours ...