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    Conflicts of interest?

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    Letters

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    Happy landings?

    2000-08-24T00:00:00Z

    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

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    Four Filipino nurses tell Alison Moore what brought them to England, how they find nursing here and their hopes for the future

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    Time to shape up

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    Primary care groups and primary care trusts have exciting freedom to decide on their preferred organisational model.

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    Current accounts

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    Little has been done to redress the imbalance in research funding which favours large teaching hospitals at the expense of smaller units, say Anne Lacey and Margaret Fall

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    Waste not, want not

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    Disposing of drugs people bring with them when they are admitted to hospital is a problem that costs the health service dear. Debbie Campbell and colleagues have a solution

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    Top of the inform

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    Managing Knowledge in Health Services Edited by Andrew Booth and Graham Walton Library Association Publishing 368 pages £45

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    Speaking louder than words

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    Handbook of Communication Audits for Organisations Edited by Owen Hargie and Dennis Tourish Routledge 365 pages £19.95

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    Assistance for the assistants

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    NVQs in Nursing and Residential Care Homes (Second edition) By Linda Nazarko Blackwell Science 288 pages £13.99

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    Events

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    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

    2000-08-24T00:00:00Z

    Paul Gocke has been appointed chief executive of the new North East London Menta l Hea lth trust , which will take over management of acute and community mental health services provided by BHB Health Care trust, Redbridge Health Care trust and Forest Healthcare trust.He has been deputy chief executive ...

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    monitor

    2000-08-24T00:00:00Z

    Very flat, Norfolk, ' as Noel Coward once said. Not any more, though! Frolicking farmers are popping up all over the place, if the latest survey by Tesco pharmacy is to be believed. For Norwich has been hailed as the Viagra capital of Britain. Envy those Norfolk broads: 4 per ...

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    Dear Mel. . .

    2000-08-24T00:00:00Z

    We have recently had a consultation exercise with the patients in our practice. Their main concerns are that they don't like children jumping up and down on the waiting-room chairs, and they are frightened of the practice nurse as she grinds her teeth when she is taking blood samples. What ...

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    monitor

    2000-08-17T00:00:00Z

    August is a wicked month, as one lady novelist astutely observed.

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    Generics price rise hits NHS for £200m

    2000-08-17T00:00:00Z

    The full cost to the NHS of last year's jump in generic drug prices has been revealed as £200m.

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    Hike tobacco tax, says WHO

    2000-08-17T00:00:00Z

    The World Health Organisation has claimed that using tax to raise cigarette prices by 10 per cent would 'motivate' 42 million people to quit smoking, preventing about 10 million tobacco-related deaths.