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Sitting pretty
GPs are subjected to violence, rudeness and anti-social behaviour almost every week.Yet few practices have a policy on removing patients. Sally Young and Relton Cummings report
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Braking point
The seemingly inexorable rise of prescription costs has been substantially slowed in one primary care group by appointing a medicines management pharmacist who also works in hospital. Elizabeth Reid and colleagues report
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Getting personal
The human effect in medicine: theory, research and practice By Michael Dixon and Kieran Sweeney Radcliffe Medical Press 157 pages £17.95
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ROM with a view
Reconfiguring health services A practical guide for managers Principal author Shirley Ann O'Hara Emap Public Sector Management 128 pages (plus CD-ROM) £85
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Making a world of difference
The global challenge of health care rationing Edited by Angela Coulter and Chris Ham Open University 288 pages £19.99
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in person
Janardan Sofat has been appointed as the new chair of Medway trust. He is a councillor and school governor and until recently was a nonexecutive director ofWest Kent health authority.Mr Sofat succeeds Tony Clayton, who has become dean of Greenwich University's Dartford and Medway faculty.
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Dear Mel. . .
The prime minister is shortly to open a new hospital wing in my trust. However, he will be accompanied by Sir Alastair Campbell.
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Ventilator trial inquiry finds 'significant' errors
The inquiry into a controversial ventilator trial at North Staffordshire Hospital trust, in which 28 premature babies died and 15 were left brain damaged, has found inadequacies at every level.
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Grin and bear it
Health secretary Alan Milburn at St Thomas' Hospital in London for one of the eight simultaneous launches of the government's consultation with staff and patients on modernising the NHS.
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No love lost as bug hits teaching site
The 'lovebug' computer virus forced a major London teaching hospital to shut down everything except 'core critical clinical systems'.
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Liddell departs for Internet job
NHS director of planning Alasdair Liddell has resigned to join a new Internet company specialising in communications between government and business.
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Ovarian cancer drug will cost HAs millions
Health authorities will have to find millions of pounds to fund cancer drugs after the National Institute for Clinical Excellence backed the use of paclitaxel to treat patients with ovarian cancer.
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Doubts over Virgin 'gimmick'
Health secretary Alan Milburn's decision to bring in consultants from Virgin Atlantic to advise the NHS on making hospitals more consumer friendly has been greeted with scepticism.
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Chief of NHS Scotland denies he could leave service soon
The chief executive of the NHS in Scotland has attempted to quash speculation that he is to leave the service soon.
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In Brief: New PCTs
Three primary care groups in Blackburn, Trafford South and Herefordshire will become primary care trusts in October, junior health minister Lord Hunt has announced. Two PCTs for West Norfolk and Hertsmere have already been given the go ahead.
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In Brief: Beacon status
Beacon status is to be extended to a range of services, including accident and emergency departments, this year, health secretary Alan Milburn has announced.
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In Brief: Two trusts in Lincolnshire merger plans
Two trusts in Lincolnshire have been given permission to launch public consultation on merger plans. Lincoln District Healthcare trust and South Lincolnshire Healthcare trust aim to create a single organisation providing mental health, learning disability and community services next April.
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In Brief: Call for baby walkers to be banned
The Chartered Society of Physiotherapists has called for baby walkers to be banned at its annual conference, arguing they can restrict babies' development and lead to 4,000 injuries every year.