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Lindsay van Dijk has been appointed to head up the chaplaincy and pastoral care team at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which provides person-centred pastoral and spiritual care. As a head of service role, this is the most senior role a humanist pastoral carer has ever held in the NHS. She is also the… Read more »
The Medical Defence Union (MDU), the UK’s first and leading medical defence organisation for doctors, today announced that it has appointed Dr Matthew Lee as its new chief executive. Dr Lee will take over from Dr Christine Tomkins, who is retiring in September after a long career supporting MDU members. Dr Tomkins has been in… Read more »
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By politics.co.uk staff James Purnell has landed himself another job at think tank demos. The former work and pensions secretary had found himself unemployed after walking out of the Cabinet in protest at Gordon Brown’s leadership. But the coup came to nothing and Mr Purnell was left twisting in the wind. He will now take… Read more »
Prime minister Gordon Brown is set to announce changes to cancer care on the NHS. In his Building Britain’s Future document tomorrow, Mr Brown is set to unveil proposals under which NHS primary care trusts, which fail to give cancer patients treatment within two weeks of a GP referral, would have to pay for private… Read more »
