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Talking to ME
myalgic encephalomyelitis: A community service for ME sufferers has helped many become more active, report William Tudor-Thomas and Selwyn Richards
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Joking apart
news focus:] The prime minister himself has decreed that the NHS's IT strategy must deliver - by 2005. Jon Hoeksma and Linda Davidson report
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On the critical list
news focus: As level-3 PCTs go live, the NHS Alliance, never afraid to tell the government its failings, has taken a characteristically frank approach to problem-solving in primary care.Paul Smith reports
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By word of mouth
news focus: Attempts to address the alarmingly high rates of oral cancer among Britain's Asian community are fraught with difficulty. Daloni Carlisle reports
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Backyard blues
news focus: A curious bidding process is in progress to establish the site of a secure unit for mentally disordered offenders in the west of Scotland.But could the 'winning'health board be handed a poisoned chalice, wonders Jennifer Trueland
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Never afraid of a scrum
Commons health committee chair David Hinchliffe may be the voice of Old Labour, but his views on the way forward for the NHS are not what his adversaries might imagine.Tash Shifrin met him
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Days like this
'Save NHS'poll call. . . doctors slam internal market. . . extra-contractual referrals overspend. . . rationing the big issue. . . strike rights suspended
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Cardiac arrested?
MANAGERS & MEDICINE: While deaths from coronary heart disease have fallen dramatically, the incidence of people getting the disease remains static. Rhonda Siddall reviews progress since the CHD national service framework was launched
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Hearing voices
patient involvement: On the eve of changes to patient and public involvement in the NHS, Judith Allsop and colleagues explain why the new structures can achieve much more than community health councils did
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Burden of proof
open space: Where will trusts be when strategic health authorities go live next week? Their financial structure will be a barrier to progress unless SHAs are given more muscle to manage the health economy, suggests Brian Aird