All articles by BY MARK CRAIL
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While the Department of Health continues ploughing good money after bad in an attempt to maintain its glorious technological isolation from the grubby world outside, our American cousins forge ahead, placing their faith in the very latest encryption software and the hottest and highest of firewalls.
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'This site is under construction... literally,' reads the blurb. Work on Dartford and Gravesham's new £100m hospital, the first to be built under the private finance initiative, is now fairly far advanced. New roads have been built, the helipad is complete, and the builders are keen to show off their ...
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The case against animal research is a relatively easy one to make. Produce a few cuddly bunnies, talk emotively about evil scientists with electrodes, and there you have it. The case for cutting up small furry animals, on the other hand, is more complex but has other advantages, not least ...
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What tune best sums up the primary care group challenge? Eschewing the obvious Money (or even Money, Money Money), maybe Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown would fit the bill. Not for Bexley and Greenwich PCGs, where visitors to an online PCG theme competition have inexplicably plumped for the theme tune from Neighbours ...
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In Whitehall, agriculture minister Jack Cunningham sits with his colleagues, peering over his new ministerial red boxes. Unlike the previous government, this one 'will publish any report on public health immediately it comes to us', he promises, the shiny novelty of high office not yet having worn off.
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If your access to the wonderful world of communications technology comes from within the NHS, then you are most likely already aware of NHSweb. If not, http://nww.inform.nhsweb. nhs.uk will produce only an annoying insistence on the part of your web browser that the site has no DNS entry.
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Somewhere out there in cyberspace, someone shares your interest in the early history of health economics, the research possibilities inherent in The New NHS, or whatever it is that turns you on. Indeed, the ether is probably buzzing already with fellow enthusiasts sharing ideas. But how to find them?