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    Out of the Fryer plan

    2002-02-21T00:00:00Z

    NHS University chief executive, and sole employee, Bob Fryer sees learning as a core principle for any career. He talks to Lyn Whitfield

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    Zero options

    2002-02-21T00:00:00Z

    news focus Already zero-starred, four trusts now face the indignity of having their management franchised.And the way the news was communicated did little to soothe their hurt. Mark Gould offers a shoulder to cry on

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    Curtain call

    2002-02-21T00:00:00Z

    A team of managers is being recruited to sort out the problems in NHS operating theatres.Who will audition for the roles, and what will be expected of them, asks Ann McGauran

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    A new broom

    2002-02-21T00:00:00Z

    news focus Can a new town offer a clean slate for an altogether different model of primary care? Or is Quidditch Lane and its environs an artificial community? Barbara Millar reports

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    Life in the fast lane

    2002-02-21T00:00:00Z

    EUROPEAN COMPUTER DRIVING LICENCE Governments keep expressing their commitment to improve the IT skills of NHS staff. So is the European computer driving licence what they have been looking for? Lyn Whitfield reports

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    Photographic memories

    2002-02-21T00:00:00Z

    news focus Besieged by the press, two Scottish hospitals have had to cope with the most high-profile patients and their bereaved families.

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    No can do

    2002-02-21T00:00:00Z

    Primary care trusts are already chronically short of staff and must take action on workforce planning if they are to succeed, warn Tineke Bosma and Joan Higgins

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    Despairing of disparity

    2002-02-21T00:00:00Z

    NHS's progress is being hampered by lack of investment in social services

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    Let's have real communication

    2002-02-21T00:00:00Z

    Overpaid spin-doctors doing ministers' bidding are not what the NHS needs

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    Delaying tactics

    2002-02-21T00:00:00Z

    PUBLIC DOMAIN

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    THE PERSUADERS

    2002-02-21T00:00:00Z

    Our weekly guide e to healthcare's most influential people

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    Bush whacked by failures of US healthcare

    2002-02-21T00:00:00Z

    POLITICS

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    Call of the wild

    2002-02-21T00:00:00Z

    HSJ MANAGEMENT CHALLENGE Elsie Jones and her dodgy hips, non-executives with wandering hands, arson. All part of a day's work at the HSJ Management Challenge, says Lyn Whitfield

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    US vs. UK

    2002-02-21T00:00:00Z

    data briefing: A comparison between the NHS and a US managed care organisation saw the US model out-performing the NHS. But John Appleby examines the methodology and questions the conclusions

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    Skirting the issue

    2002-02-21T00:00:00Z

    nursing workforce: Part-time nurses are an increasingly vital resource but are undervalued by managers, a survey has shown. Christine Edwards and colleagues report

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    Nurture not nature

    2002-02-21T00:00:00Z

    primary care trusts Primary care groups and trusts were an innovative idea, but they have achieved little, and failed to shift the balance in the NHS.They are in need of organisational sustenance, argues Matthew Bond

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    Pay far more attention to public health role

    2002-02-21T00:00:00Z

    Letters Primary care trusts

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    Woeful 'under-doctoring'means new consultants are what's needed

    2002-02-21T00:00:00Z

    Letters NHS reform programme