100TH NEW-STYLE HEALTH CENTRE OPENS
The one hundredth new health centre built under the NHS Local Improvement Finance Trust programme opened this week and was immediately followed by the opening of another centre with one more due to welcome its first patients next Monday. The programme was set up to improve community health services in some of the most deprived areas of the country.
CONCERNS OVER DEBT LEVELS FOR STUDENT DOCTORS
Doctors’ leaders are calling for bursaries from the NHS to be made more widely available to medical students after a new study showed that on average medical students owe more than 21,000 pounds by the time they complete their studies. Figures in the BMA’s annual medical student finance survey show those graduating this year owe an average more than the basic annual salary they will receive in their first jobs as a junior doctors.
By Ewart Wooldridge CBE The development of leaders in higher education has been radically revised in the last two years. The author describes the challenges and growing pains of the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education . For the future, the key is long-term sustainability through the growth of customized interventions. This article was first published in Public Management and Policy and is reproduced by permission of the Association. http://www.cipfa.org.uk/pmpa/index.cfm
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