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The high price of success
Some GPs may be stigmatised as 'problem prescribers', but one presentation at the conference showed how following national guidelines by prescribing treatments which have accepted benefits for patients can threaten drugs budgets.
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Tough but fair - CHI's first reports set tone for future
But local determination to reform is the only long-term solution to NHS ills
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Is Loyd hungry for a challenge?
We look forward to celeb chef coping with constraints of hospital catering
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One for all and all for one?
The NHS plan refers temptingly to the concept of 'one-stop health and social care services'. Patients and users would no longer be pushed from organisational pillar to professional post. A call to one would be a call to all: seamless care at the point of delivery.
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Nursing a grievance on a wing and a prayer
I took a call at the office on Sunday night from a Downing Street official who was keen to persuade me to write about the scale of investment which the government's three years of economic virtue have made possible.
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Coming on strong
Increasing numbers of lay people are being appointed to NHS bodies.Their training must be addressed, says Charlotte Williamson
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Under the influence
Health consumer groups have more opportunities to influence national policy, yet they see providing advice and support as more important. Kathryn Jones and colleagues find out why
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Where are they now?
What motivates people to join the NHS, sometimes taking a 50 per cent pay cut in the process? Five years ago HSJ talked to a group of new entrants about their aspirations. Joanna Lyall finds out how three of them have fared
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Extending shelflife
Promoting health in old age By Miriam Barnard Open University Press 176 pages £16.99
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The varieties of cultural experience
Culture, religion and patient care in a multi-ethnic society A handbook for professionals By Alix Henley and Judith Schott Age Concern Books 602 pages £19.99