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Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny told the Dail that doctors with no connection to Galway University Hospital would be appointed to replace the ones removed from the inquiry panel.
BBC: Savita Halappanavar
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As an interim measure Paul O'Connor, formerly Director of Operations at King's College Hospital NHS Trust, has been appointed as acting chief executive.
BBC: Barnet and Chase Farm NHS Trust
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Each hospital will carry out its own investigation, with the DoH internal inquiry looking into how Savile was appointed in 1988 to lead a taskforce overseeing management at the high security psychiatric hospital Broadmoor.
BBC: Jimmy Savile
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The South West of England's biggest hospital - Derriford in Plymouth - has appointed three directors to its board, following claims in May of a "leadership vacuum".
BBC: Derriford Hospital appoints three new directors
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In 1804, when an outbreak of yellow fever swept Gibraltar, ultimately causing almost 6, 000 deaths, Lord Nelson discharged Sir George from HMS Victory and appointed him superintendent of the territory's naval hospital.
BBC: Medals of Lord Nelson's surgeon auctioned
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Koop was appointed surgeon-in-chief at Children's Hospital in Philadelphia and served as a professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
NPR: Koop, Who Transformed Surgeon General Post, Dies
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Koop was appointed surgeon-in-chief at Children's Hospital in Philadelphia and he also served as a professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
WSJ: C. Everett Koop, ex-surgeon general, dies in NH
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In May this year, senior NHS managers were appointed to run four hospitals classified as failing in the 2001 hospital ratings.
BBC: Private firms named for NHS role
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News late last week that newly appointed Dynamo Kiev coach Oleg Blokhin had taken ill and admitted to hospital.
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Meanwhile, ministers sent from London, or bodies appointed by them, could be relied on to take the difficult decisions on, say, school funding or hospital closures.
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