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    In Brief

    2000-10-26T00:00:00Z

    A series of regional workshops is under way to provide updates on the development of the NHS website, nhs.uk which is set to rapidly expand in the next few months. The website currently offers a limited range of information, including a history of the NHS and a directory of NHS ...

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    Health service in our hands

    2000-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Palmtops could soon provide a wealth of information about patients and appointments - plus instant access to a vast pool of data, says Jane Dudman

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    Facts at their fingertips

    2000-10-26T00:00:00Z

    The latest IT strategy has been consolidated in the NHS plan, as Jane Dudman reports

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    Events

    2000-10-19T00:00:00Z

    Items are entered free for public sector, voluntary and professional organisations, but we need at least six weeks' notice of your event. Please send details to Uli Jaeger, HSJ, Greater London House, Hampstead Road, London, NW1 7EJ.Fax:020-7874 0254.

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    in person

    2000-10-19T00:00:00Z

    Clive Clark has been appointed jointly by Sheffield social services and Community Health Sheffield trust as director of newly integrated mental health services for adults. He previously worked for Barnsley health authority on service integration.

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    Back to basics

    2000-10-19T00:00:00Z

    As PCGs become PCTs, lay members are demanding higher pay. Without it, they say, the only people we'll see serving on these lynchipins of primary care reform are the 'usual suspects'. Claire Laurent reports

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    A nation awaits

    2000-10-19T00:00:00Z

    His appointment may not have captured the public imagination in quite the same way as the England football manager debate, but Nigel Crisp, too, will be judged by results. Ann McGauran and Laura Donnelly report

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    Trial and error

    2000-10-19T00:00:00Z

    A typicals for treating schizophrenia received the thumbs-up at an HSJ debate, but some condemned trials backing their use. Laura Donnelly was there

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    Case the joint

    2000-10-19T00:00:00Z

    Some may still feel uneasy about it, but it's now so fashionable no-one can ignore it. Tash Shifrin explores the under-reported world of joint working

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    Gone in a puff of smoke

    2000-10-19T00:00:00Z

    Health ministers thought they could get a European ban on cigarette advertising by adapting the EU directive on internal markets. They were wrong, but the anti-smoking lobby is not despondent. Tony Sheldon reports

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    Greetings to a minister with a minty bit stronger chance

    2000-10-19T00:00:00Z

    As a career health service manager takes top slot this is an NHS tribute

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    Five million people can't be wrong

    2000-10-19T00:00:00Z

    Health care communication using personality type Patients are different! By Judy Allen and Susan A Brock Routledge 213 pages £12.99 paperback

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    Health care provision: Past, present and into the 21st century

    2000-10-19T00:00:00Z

    By Audrey Leathard Nelson Thornes 351 pages £22.50 paperback

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    Oh God, give them strength

    2000-10-19T00:00:00Z

    What are you feeling, Doctor? Identifying and avoiding defensive patterns in the consultation By John Salinsky and Paul Sackin Radcliffe Medical Press 192 pages £19.95 paperback

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    management education

    2000-10-19T00:00:00Z

    Historically doctors and managers have undergone little joint training, at least until doctors become consultants.

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    A question of trust

    2000-10-19T00:00:00Z

    The NHS plan promises that powers to create new care trusts will be made available to primary care trusts and to local authorities with social services responsibilities.

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    Better or worse?

    2000-10-19T00:00:00Z

    The implications of the NHS plan for partnerships between health and local authorities have largely been assessed in personal social service terms. This perspective is understandable. Before the plan was published the NHS confederation proposed levels 5 and 6 primary care trusts to commission and provide social care the secretary ...

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    Mental health 'czar'demands zero suicides on acute wards

    2000-10-19T00:00:00Z

    National mental health director Professor Louis Appleby has ordered the NHS to take 'immediate action' to meet targets for zero suicides on acute psychiatric wards by the end of March 2002.

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    Website to monitor flu outbreaks

    2000-10-19T00:00:00Z

    An Internet scheme to monitor flu outbreaks and alert hospitals has been launched in the North West region.

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    Days like this

    2000-10-19T00:00:00Z

    A leaked Department of Health memo on the public spending talks has revealed that health secretary Kenneth Clarke has been advised to cut his bid to the Treasury for extra money by £431m, and that he is prepared to lose another £500m.Mr Clarke had originally asked for a £2.76bn increase ...