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Mass production
US HEALTHCARE: Health benefit schemes offered by US companies to their employees are unpopular and in an expensive state of flux. Howard Berliner reports
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Sweet success
ADVICE LINES: Telephone advice systems can be a convenient and cost-effective way to communicate with patients.
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Going into labour
PUBLIC - PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS: As Labour enters a second term, the future for universal public services hangs in the balance. Will private-sector partnerships bring the fast results the electorate expects? Rachel Lissauer foresees a painful transition and
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The urge to merge
CARE TRUSTS: Rivalry between the health and social care elements in the new care trusts is not uncommon. But in some organisations, the urge to merge is almost irresistible, reports Thelma Agnew
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The Janus experience
JOINT APPOINTMENTS: Joint appointments can leave a manager facing in two different directions. Suzanne Simmons-Lewis meets two people who are well qualified to explore the potential of the new roles and to resolve the possible conflicts that they carry
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The scrutiny mutiny
SCRUNTINY: What sort of scrutiny can health managers expect from local councils? Paul Corrigan describes a pilot study in which councillors were more interested in being constructive than in settling old scores
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Happy returns
IN PERSON: From top managers to nurses to play specialists, many health professionals, including those listed here, had their roles rewarded in the Queen's Birthday Honours
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MONITOR
Regular readers will recall that Monitor was upbraided last week for remarks about Marie Stopes' Passport to Sexual Health for Teens, and its usefully wipe-clean cover. Since then he has had the opportunity to reflect in a secluded spot on whether he has an unusual predilection for Benny Hill-style sexual ...
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Dear Mel. . .
I see the government has come up with the idea of measuring waiting lists by length of wait rather than number of people waiting. is not this something the Conservatives did several years ago?