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    WEB WATCH

    2000-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Poring over reports and attending hospital meetings doesn't sound like fun? You'd be surprised. . . Those are the words of trust nonexecutive Pauline Mistry. She goes on to explain how her role at Oxford's Radcliffe Hospitals trust involves 'sorting out the cock-ups' and 'disagreeing with some of the things ...

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    Moment of madness ends cash injection triumph

    2000-10-26T00:00:00Z

    As I write, they are discussing rail regulation, in the wake of the Hatfield crash, on Radio 4.But that was last week's disaster. A few minutes earlier they had been talking about this week's disaster: the renewed controversy over BSE triggered by the Phillips report, by the fresh scare in ...

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    Nurses today are better qualified than ever

    2000-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    Contradictory about-face on nursing agencies

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    Our duty is to demonstrate staying power

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    Funding ambulance services in rural areas

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    Treating people with dangerous disorders

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    Accounting for how we spend fuel taxes

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    Open wide

    2000-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Will the government's long-awaited strategy for dentistry really enable everyone to have acess to an NHS dentist by next year? And isn't it time to tackle dentists' restrictive practices, ask Jean Gorham and John Galloway

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    Scope to improve

    2000-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Clinical governance has yet to alter NHS culture, according to a survey of trusts. Kieran Walshe and colleagues report on their findings

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    in person

    2000-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Barbara Peacock, chair of Bolton Hospitals trust, will retire on 1 December.She was a member of Bolton health authority for more than a decade before becoming the first chair of the trust in 1993.

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    Events

    2000-10-26T00:00:00Z

    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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    Scottish GPs seek to wrest purse strings from PCTs

    2000-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Scottish GPs want to take control of local spending priorities from primary care trusts as part of their submission to Scotland's version of the NHS plan.

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    Wales freezes prescription charges

    2000-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Prescription charges in Wales are to be frozen, with free medicines for people under-25 from April, Welsh finance minister Edwina Hart has announced.

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    Primary care chiefs say pivotal problem in sector is low morale

    2000-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Primary care leaders have warned ministers that they will need to provide more money and tackle low morale as part of a full-scale review of the primary care sector.

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    Norman boost for RCN crown

    2000-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Sue Norman, president of the UK Central Council for Nursing and Midwifery, has emerged as one of the favourites to replace Christine Hancock as general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing when she stands down next summer.

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    In Brief

    2000-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Public health minister Yvette Cooper has told the annual Community Practitioners' and Health Visitors' Association conference that a rise in child obesity could wipe out recent increases in life expectancy 'in a generation'.

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    East Sussex hit by rash of bed blocks

    2000-10-26T00:00:00Z

    A shortfall in social services funding is causing severe bed blocking in East Sussex hospitals.