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Cause and effect
How do chief executives feel about the latest NHS reorganisation? A survey of reactions to Shifting the Balance revealed some disturbing findings.
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Fight club
The threat of violence towards GPs has led South Essex health organisations to set up a special allocation scheme. Carolyn Larsen and colleagues explain GPs have had the right since 1999 to remove a patient immediately from their list for actual or threatened violence or aggression.
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Catch phase
The crisis in managing communicable disease will deepen as the NHS reorganisation moves consultants in the specialty into primary care trusts, says Surinder Bakhshi
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in person Professor Ray Robinson
Professor Ray Robinson is to join the British Dental Association to work alongside its newly formed policy directorate.He will help develop its strategic policy-making as well as provide external health input on oral health issues.
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Events
Annual conference 24 October, Birmingham The Primary Care Learning Association is holding its annual conference with a range of speakers discussing how to address some difficult but commonly presented issues in education, training and development. Topics include primary care trusts and their role in learning, developing a training strategy, stress ...
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up and running
Enovation: Despite earlier hopes of a brave new world for speech-recognition systems, technical difficulties have led to a slow take-up in business and the health service.Is the pace about to get faster?
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boom bang a bang
When Big Ben chimed in the year 2000, the technology sector was the 'new economy', an apparent economic miracle. It took just over a year for received wisdom to see it as a disaster.
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Capital's health divide widens
Health gaps between rich and poor are still growing across London, despite the government's much publicised pledge to cut them by 2010, according to a report.
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Trust clinches PFI deal for medical equipment
A trust which opened a new private finance initiative-funded hospital earlier this year has now signed the first major separate PFI deal to provide medical equipment.