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A specialist in families and couples working in Exeter and London, and co-author of the Avon Breast Promise Report I live in Exeter, where I train mental health professionals at the university in postgraduate programmes. Two days a week I work in London, seeing clients in psychotherapy and also doing...
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He spends his days in Dorset collecting and distributing prescriptions – as well as occasionally reading the Gruffalo Appropriately for the owner of a small, family business, the day begins with the business of my small family, namely six-month-old Ella, followed by breakfast with her big sister Gracie...
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Former health secretary and chair of health select committee says that better use of IT will help eliminate waste in the NHS, reports Gill Hitchcock When the Audit Commission published its review of England's NHS this summer and warned of growing financial pressures, trusts already knew that achieving...
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Trust advertises for supplier to improve IT services for 6,000 clinical and office staff Portsmouth hospitals NHS trust is looking to set up a five year contract, worth £3m, to improve IT services for its clinical and administrative staff. The core objectives of the deal will be to increase the speed...
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Job moves: North West London hospitals trust gets new boss and North Staffordshire combined healthcare trust announces new chair Ian Cumming has been appointed as the new chief executive of North Bristol trust. He is currently national director for quality at the Department of Health and was previously...
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After dealing with the M5 crash, South Western Ambulance Service is set to take over its smaller neighbour Great Western Days after grappling with the aftermath of the M5 crash, arguably the biggest and most demanding emergency in its history, South Western Ambulance Service (SWAS) – which covers the...
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ICT deal will provide shared services for local government and health services Cornwall council has issued a tender worth up to £800m on behalf of itself and three local health organisations for a wide range of equipment and services, including ICT. According to a notice in the Official Journal of the...
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Government confirms that procurement of child and community systems for the south of England failed to represent value for money The Department of Health has decided against buying child and community healthcare systems in the south of England under the Additional Supply Capacity and Capability (ASCC...
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Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and the Oxford Radcliffe trust integrate and form new working agreement with Oxford University Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS trust have merged, creating an integrated trust under a single board and management team. The newly-integrated...
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Job moves: chief executive Jeff James leaves Wiltshire and Bath primary care trust cluster while QEH King's Lynn appoints Patricia Wright as boss Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals foundation trust has said that its chief executive Nik Patten has left "to pursue career opportunities elsewhere"...
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Gloucestershire's primary care trust has paused plans to transfer local health services to a community interest company pending a hearing NHS Gloucestershire has put on hold its plans to transfer community health services and a £100m budget from the local health service to Gloucestershire Care Services...
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Trust publishes tender for building development works to create a health and social care centre for 2014 NHS Bristol trust is looking for a private sector partner to carry out work at Frenchay hospital, which will be downgraded from an acute hospital to a health and social care centre. A spokeswoman...
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A south west council has moved its staff and those from its primary care trust into a new community interest company The people at Sirona Care and Health certainly can't be faulted on presentation. Sirona, its name inspired by Celtic mythology, visions of watery healing and teams of marketing advisors...
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Job moves: health secretary Andrew Lansley names professor Malcolm Grant as his preferred choice to head the NHS Commissioning Board, while Heatherwood and Wrexham Park hospitals appoints new chief executive and NHS Dumfries and Galloway confirms its boss is set to leave Professor Malcolm Grant is Andrew...
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The Patient from hell is impressed by the honesty on show at a hospital trust's AGM, but finds digitised records permanently stuck in any other business Last week, I did something I have never done before: I attended the annual general meeting of one of the nearby hospital trusts. There were no fireworks...