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The short goodbye
You give 20 or more years of your life to the NHS and they give you a couple of hours to clear your desk. Janet Snell talks to some former chief executives who know how it feels
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Remote control
The revamp of junior doctors' employment structure, putting more emphasis on training when consultant numbers have not been increased, has lost sight of service needs, say Robert Elkeles and Richard Thompson
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Consuming passions
Experience of a walk-in centre brought home to Jenny Rogers the disdain with which the NHS often treats its customers. She says something momentous has to happen - before it's too late
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NICE data briefing
Does NICE's remit lack scope? John Appleby assesses the evidence emerging from the assessments so far
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Events
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Monitor readers paying close attention will shiver to hear the name Minette Marin. Just months ago, The Daily Telegraph's very own lady columnist revealed herself as the power behind that nice Mr Milburn's elbow. It was she, back in April, who first thought that national guidelines on hospital cleaning would ...
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Dear Mel. . .
Our practice has gone completely paperless. When we tried to run our Grand National sweepstake using the computer, all the details got eaten by a virus. What should we do now?
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Watch this space
Kidderminster General Hospital's acute services have been 'sacrificed' to offset health authority and trust deficits, says a damning report on the political hot potato. James Garnett reports
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Out of sight
Action to address the growing problem of female genital mutilation is being hampered by taboos and ignorance, writes Claire Laurent
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Injection of urgency
Are today's 13 to 14-year-olds to enter adulthood unimmunised against tuberculosis because manufacture of the BCG vaccine relies on the whim of the free market? Tash Shifrin reports
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The state we're in - is all really as it seems?
Flu-fuelled winter 'crisis' was a figment of the media's imagination
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Constructing a bright future
Good estate management is a vital building block for modernising the NHS
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Time to stop horsing around
Much has been made of the rise of the 'bidding culture', where developments are allocated funding after competitive bids.Most comment has been negative: why should funds be apportioned on the basis of bidwriting skills? Where does the concept of need fit? Why introduce money this way when there is so ...