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Patients are doing it for themselves

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The NHS plan says bye bye CHCs, hello patient advocates - but one community group is ahead of the pack.Tash Shifrin reports
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A grand Utopian vision deserving of success

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WEB WATCH

2000-08-03T00:00:00Z

Mad Pride did not adopt its name without a bit of soul searching.
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Wicked steps to partnership

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OVER THE WALL
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It's do or die for Bevan's selfappointed heirs

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POLITICS
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NHS founding principles good for railways

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Losing patience over patient participation

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Fritchie happy with ministers' reply on appointments, says Gisela Stuart

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Above-average profits for investors are common but rarely acknowledged fact of PFI developments

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Kidderminster 'stonewaller'must mind her language and get out of a spin if true state of play is to be known

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Musical chairs don't change primary care

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Tribute to tireless worker for chaplains

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Number's up for mathematically challenged

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Why do agencies not provide any information?

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Trading places

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The idea that nurses could retrain to be doctors might have been unthinkable at one time. But the national plan includes provision for nurses to retrain mid-career without starting from scratch. Some have already made the switch. Janet Snell reports
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This is your pilot speaking

2000-08-03T00:00:00Z

The national plan envisages that a third of all GPs will be on personal medical services contracts by 2002.But a study of pilot schemes reveals that not all are using the freedoms and flexibilities offered by the legislation. June Hunt ington and colleagu
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Medical Insurance

2000-08-03T00:00:00Z

A comparison of five countries' health payment systems reveals that where private insurance dominates, fewer people get the healthcare they need, says John Appleby
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in person

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Robert Hinton is the new director of finance at West Midlands Ambulance Service trust.He previously worked for South Birmingham Community Health trust as director of finance and information, having joined the NHS in 1981 from industry.
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Events

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monitor

2000-08-03T00:00:00Z

Those of you working on the coal-face, so to speak, or near it, or in a rather plush office from which you can almost smell it, may well be cocooned from the deluge of serious issues that hit the NHS daily. And what a mass there is: if only there ...