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Pick your own
Does the NHS plan deliver on Tony Blair's grand vision for transforming the delivery of public health, or is it just a list of things to do? Lyn Whitfield looks at what it has to offer
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Mixed blessing
What do you get if you cross health and social services? A 'care trust', apparently, and they look set to be the Next Big Thing. Tash Shifrin reports
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Signs of the times
Two pages of the NHS plan are given over to a collection of signatures from the great and the good. HSJ asked a handwriting expert to tell us what they revealed.
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Piping cold
The new law - and trusts' own policies - to protect whistleblowers is yet to make an impact, and some staff groups may be loath to use them, writes Ann McGauran
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Putting the wheels in emotion
Heart-rending appeals for potential bone marrow donors to help named individuals can spark the public imagination, but they can obscure the bigger picture, says Lynne Greenwood
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Crash bang wallop - time to halt the public floggings
Managers' willingness to take a bashing hurts their local credibility
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After 'Enery, whatever next?
We may love him, but should an ex-pugilist spearhead a health campaign?
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Happy landings?
The UK is reliant on overseas nurses more than ever, andmany arrive from countries which have shortages of their own, contravening DoH advice. James Buchan reports
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Happy from Tunbridge Wells
Four Filipino nurses tell Alison Moore what brought them to England, how they find nursing here and their hopes for the future