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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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The health secretary has called on GPs to adopt longer opening hours in a bid to improve patient access. Alan Johnson has written to every GP in England asking them to accept government proposals for practices to open in the evening and at weekends. The British Medical Association (BMA) has been resisting the reforms but… Read more »
The government should be stripped of its responsibility for overseeing the training of junior doctors, a report into last year’s medic recruitment fiasco has concluded. The report by professor Sir John Tooke’s calls for an independent body to control the recruitment of junior medics, arguing the Department of Health (DoH) should not be in charge… Read more »
