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Fleet of foot
An early retirement culture and dissatisfaction with work have left an increasingly worried government with a staffing vacuum, writes Janet Snell
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'You just don't realise how tired you are until you you have a chance to stop running round like a scalded cat'
Leveta Lawson was approaching 50 when she heard that North Bedfordshire Community Trust, where she worked, was to merge with the neighbouring trust.
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One hundred years of solicitude
The Labour Party seems reluctant to look back to its origins a century ago. But its history and that of health policy are closely intertwined.
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Left a bit
The telemedicine toolkit By Roy Lilley and John Navein Radcliffe Medical Press 185 pages £30
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Feeling the pressure
Stress in health professionals Psychological and organisational causes and interventions Edited by Jenny Firth-Cozens and Roy L Payne John Wiley & Sons 264 pages £17.99 paperback £39.95 hardback
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How to settle old scores
The GP quiz book 2 Further detection and management of physical disease By Alick Munro Radcliffe Medical Press 191 pages £17.95
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Give private managers a go, says Cumberlege
The NHS should introduce a pilot experiment in which a number of hospitals are taken over by private management teams 'if only to prove the government can do it better', former Conservative health minister Baroness Cumberlege has urged.
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In Brief: New Appointment
Maria Eagle, Labour MP for Liverpool Garston, has been appointed parliamentary private secretary to health minister John Hutton. Ms Eagle, who is the twin sister of social security junior minister Angela Eagle, is a former solicitor.
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In Brief: Minister gives up responsibility
Public health minister Yvette Cooper has given up ministerial responsibility for food safety and standards (including responsibility for the Food Standards Agency) although she will retain responsibility for nutrition. Junior health minister Gisela Stuart will take over food safety.
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In Brief: More press releases
The Department of Health issued 742 press releases in 1999, more than twice as many as were issued in the last year of the Conservative government in 1996, when 366 were published. The DoH issued 406 releases in 1997, and 556 in 1998.
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In Brief: Review due to be complete
The expert scientific review of fluoride and health is expected to be completed 'in the spring', public health minister Yvette Cooper told MPs.
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Anti-smoking battle 'will be led by Europe'
The battle against the tobacco industry will be spearheaded by European directives, not homegrown legislation or court actions, health secretary Alan Milburn has told MPs.
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Not hip enough
The Audit Commission has criticised hospitals for failing to make enough progress in treating patients with hip fractures.
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Days like this
Drug demand to increase. . . directors want more cash. . . call for change in community care. . .DoH accused of lying. . . homeless 'too expensive'
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All things to all men
The long-awaited national beds inquiry report seems to cater for all tastes. Primary, intermediate, acute. . . you can have it all. Or can you? Laura Donnelly reports
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The bill of the chase
A ruling on 'duty of care' means ambulances, not hospitals, may be lawyers' next targets, writes Patrick Butler