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High street lows
PHARMACY SERVICES: Do the local pharmaceutical pilots spell the end for the community pharmacy? Richard Lewis investigates
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Paying the list price
NEWS FOCUS: A clinical governance review report highlighted a catalogue of serious flaws in the management of Epsom and St Helier trust and, as Maura Thompson reports, someone had to be held accountable
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Turning up the heat
NEWS FOCUS: Since devolution, senior health service managers are ever more likely to receive a grilling from a government committee, and be asked to justify every action.Can they prepare for this, or is it a case of practice makes perfect? Jennifer Truela
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Soul survivors
SPIRITUAL CARE: Meeting spiritual needs is a crucial aspect of caring for elderly people. But do staff in care homes understand what is meant by the term, and do they accept responsibility for it? Helen Orchard and David Clark investigate
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If looks could kill
NEWS FOCUS: The number of organisations jostling for the right to audit parts of the NHS has reached epidemic proportions.But if the future brings a cull, where will the knife fall? Lyn Whitfield takes a look
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Too hot to handle?
WARD MANAGERS: People who manage wards feel their accountability is being increased while their control of resources is being diminished. Claire Laurent reports
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Tale of the unexpected
What happens when a tiny cottage hospital learns it is to benefit from a massive legacy? Danny Lee went to Cromer, Norfolk, to find out
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Going places
How can emergency admissions be safeguarded at times of major hospital reorganisation?
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On a hiding to nothing?
Hammersmith Hospitals trust is preaching an open culture.So why hasn't it released the results of its breast-screening audit, asks Paul Stephenson Concerns about the choice of Hammersmith Hospitals trust medical director Professor Rory Shaw to chair the National Patient Safety Agency have once again thrown the trust into the spotlight.
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Design for life
Healthy living centres may be a throwback to the 1960s, but Carol Harris believes they are filling a gap between medical need and community spirit Achiropody clinic for homeless people in London, an exercise programme in the Lake District and a drug education project in Belfast sound like typical community ...
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A very big cheese
Sir Donald Wilson, who died this month, inspired fear and respect in equal measure. Paul Smith charts the career of an ‘NHS hero’, renowned for his passion, his flamboyance - and his dairy farm Aspirations to a New Labour no-blame ‘modern and dependable’NHS were unlikely to appeal to Sir Donald ...