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...
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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A legal challenge has allowed protesters to delay the transfer of 3,000 staff from a primary care trust to a new social enterprise Michael Lloyd does not look like the sort of activist to cause a government-backed reform of the NHS to stop in its tracks. A stooped figure, clad in his worn Sunday best...
Taunton's Musgrove Park and South Manchester's Wythenshawe hospitals are pioneering greener and cheaper Hospitals can save lives, but they can be bad for the health of the planet. Often environmentally unfriendly, energy inefficient and haemorrhaging money in fuel and electricity bills as a result...
Online videos can be shocking, sexy – and a cheap way for NHS organisations to spread public health messages As arguments over whether NHS efficiency savings are leading to longer waiting lists continue, there is no debate over whether spending on public health advertising has been cut. One of the first...
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