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    Toe the union line

    1999-07-29T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    King-pin wizards

    1999-07-29T00:00:00Z

    The chief executive's traditional functions don't apply in PCGs. Now they need different skills, says Richard Banyard.

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    'There's such a push for creativity, it's almost frightening'

    1999-07-29T00:00:00Z

    Janet Snell canvassed opinion on how chief executives see their new roles progressing

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    PCG tips

    1999-07-29T00:00:00Z

    Nurses and therapists have plenty of suggestions about what is needed to make their contribution to PCGs work, but also concerns about how the new bodies will work in practice. Jan Davis and Pat Lambert report

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    Guiding lights

    1999-07-29T00:00:00Z

    evidence-based practice

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    Give me patients

    1999-07-29T00:00:00Z

    Management trainee Tom Smith thought the NHS was his chance to make a difference. His experience proved a rude awakening

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    New-girl Spelman joins the fast stream

    1999-07-29T00:00:00Z

    westminster diary Profile

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    Wise steps up defence of sacked trust chief

    1999-07-29T00:00:00Z

    westminster diary

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    In Brief: Compulsory registration scheme

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    westminster diary

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    In Brief: The AIDS Act should be updated

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    westminster diary

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    In Brief: Equity in Primary Care working group

    1999-07-29T00:00:00Z

    westminster diary

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    In person

    1999-07-29T00:00:00Z

    Philomena Corrigan and Anthony Palmer are sharing the post of chief nurse at Calderdale Healthcare trust, which manages community services in Halifax and the surrounding area. They previously job-shared the post of deputy chief nurse director at Doncaster Royal Infirmary and Montague Hospital trust. Ms Corrigan will lead on mental ...

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    Events

    1999-07-29T00:00:00Z

    Controls assurance

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    Monitor

    1999-07-29T00:00:00Z

    An element of mystery infiltrates the Save Bart's Apostrophe campaign as it enters its fourth week. Monitor duly put the case for the restoration of our beloved apostrophe to Barts (sic) and the London trust only to have spokesman Rory Taylor come back with the claim: 'St Bartholomews never had ...

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    GADFLY

    1999-07-29T00:00:00Z

    An everyday tale of trust folk, appearing fortnightly Smoothie from region had assured Greycoat that CHC chair Carla Citrus could be easily deflected. . .

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    Short Cuts: Academic appointed to lead sexual health strategy

    1999-07-29T00:00:00Z

    Public health minister Tessa Jowell has announced that Michael Adler, professor of genitourinary medicine/sexually transmitted diseases at Royal Free and University College Medical School, will lead the development of a sexual health strategy for England. The strategy, announced in March, will aim to improve access to services, spread good practice, ...

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    monitor

    1999-07-22T00:00:00Z

    Monitor wishes to join the grovelling rush to congratulate Sir Alan Langlands on his reappointment as NHS chief executive for a further four-year term. Jolly well done, sir. It obviously scotches all that scurrilous gossip about Big Al getting ready to up sticks and quit - so what can account ...

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    GADFLY

    1999-07-22T00:00:00Z

    As I slurped at Greycoat's coffee, the Terminator arrived to say he'd found a room in the nurses' home for regional mole Bobby Keane and innocent number cruncher Miss Fermat, for their confidential information-gathering concerning the secret amalgamation with St Jude's.

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    Dear pill

    1999-07-22T00:00:00Z

    A new round of expensive but effective drugs could prove to be bitter medicine for those in charge of paying the bills. Adam Legge investigates