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Trusting to luck
A review of health improvement programmes found a wealth of priorities reflecting national policy.But measurable targets were very thin on the ground.Stephen Abbott and Steve Gillam report
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Sitting pretty
GPs are subjected to violence, rudeness and anti-social behaviour almost every week.Yet few practices have a policy on removing patients. Sally Young and Relton Cummings report
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Braking point
The seemingly inexorable rise of prescription costs has been substantially slowed in one primary care group by appointing a medicines management pharmacist who also works in hospital. Elizabeth Reid and colleagues report
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Getting personal
The human effect in medicine: theory, research and practice By Michael Dixon and Kieran Sweeney Radcliffe Medical Press 157 pages £17.95
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ROM with a view
Reconfiguring health services A practical guide for managers Principal author Shirley Ann O'Hara Emap Public Sector Management 128 pages (plus CD-ROM) £85
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Making a world of difference
The global challenge of health care rationing Edited by Angela Coulter and Chris Ham Open University 288 pages £19.99
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in person
Janardan Sofat has been appointed as the new chair of Medway trust. He is a councillor and school governor and until recently was a nonexecutive director ofWest Kent health authority.Mr Sofat succeeds Tony Clayton, who has become dean of Greenwich University's Dartford and Medway faculty.
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Events
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Dear Mel. . .
The prime minister is shortly to open a new hospital wing in my trust. However, he will be accompanied by Sir Alastair Campbell.
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Ventilator trial inquiry finds 'significant' errors
The inquiry into a controversial ventilator trial at North Staffordshire Hospital trust, in which 28 premature babies died and 15 were left brain damaged, has found inadequacies at every level.
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Grin and bear it
Health secretary Alan Milburn at St Thomas' Hospital in London for one of the eight simultaneous launches of the government's consultation with staff and patients on modernising the NHS.
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No love lost as bug hits teaching site
The 'lovebug' computer virus forced a major London teaching hospital to shut down everything except 'core critical clinical systems'.
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Liddell departs for Internet job
NHS director of planning Alasdair Liddell has resigned to join a new Internet company specialising in communications between government and business.
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Ovarian cancer drug will cost HAs millions
Health authorities will have to find millions of pounds to fund cancer drugs after the National Institute for Clinical Excellence backed the use of paclitaxel to treat patients with ovarian cancer.