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Head to head
Is the NHS overlooking an important resource by making limited use of mentors? Janet Snell reports
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Regeneration game
A health authority which won special funds to develop its most deprived districts has lessons for other bidders. Barbara Millar reports
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Five chairs, but no sofa
After six months in post, deputy health service ombudsman Hilary Scott reflects on her transition from the NHS to the civil service
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Monitor
Monitor has been much concerned at the lack of imagination in naming those PFI hospitals. Boring old monikers that tell you stuff about where the hospital can be found, for example. So hats off to Dartford and Gravesham trust, which has boldly decided to call its shiny new flagship the ...
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Equal to the occasion
Health secretary Alan Milburn is keen to assure social services that they are equal partners with the NHS. But he warned that means signing up to a similar strict regime of regulation. Pat Healy reports
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Insurance policy
It's not 'repugnant' privatisation and he doesn't have any himself, but shadow health secretary Dr Liam Fox thinks health insurance is the key to improving health outcomes, as he tells Patrick Butler
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A jab in the dark
How would the NHS cope with a quarter of the population ill or dying from flu? Mark Gould reports on the Department of Health's contingency plan for the next flu pandemic, which experts believe is on its way shortly