Following recruitment drives for nurses, teachers and school governors, a new campaign has been launched to recruit magistrates. There will be a series of advertisements in national newspapers and magazines as well as titles aimed specifically at ethnic minority communities. The visual images in the advertisements challenge the prevailing view of magistrates being out-of-touch fuddy-duddies.
There are just over 30,000 magistrates and they sit for about 35 half days each year. 

The Sema Group has been awarded a 12 million pound contract under the Private Finance Initiative to develop and run the NHS Strategic Tracing Service. The system will contain details of 52 million patients in England and Wales who have been given a unique number since 1996. In addition to patient identification details the database will include information about their GPs, trusts and health authorities and the relationships between them within the NHS. 

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