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    On the slide?

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Whatever their feelings on the government's approach to cancer services, the experts agree more cash and manpower are needed - fast. Thelma Agnew reports

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    Cut and dry

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    The Alder Hey organ scandal, which led to the resignation of Frank Taylor last week, has resulted in new guidance on the issue. Barbara Millar reports

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    What happened at Alder Hey?

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Alder Hey has the biggest collection - over 2,000 - of paediatric hearts in the country, amassed over 50 years.

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    Dead reckoning: what the Royal College of Pathologists recommends

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Medical schools and hospitals must provide training for medical and other appropriate personnel in requesting and obtaining agreement for post-mortems. Anyone seeking agreement for a post-mortem must first liaise with the pathologist to determine the necessity of, and grounds for, retaining tissue so that relatives can make informed decisions. Hospital ...

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    Head-banging tendency can't stop march of time

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    GPs must face up to difficulties and opportunities posed by New NHS

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    Budget beyond wildest dreams

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Chancellor leaves pundits gasping with huge vote of confidence in NHS

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    Commission impossible

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Yet another significant NHS date is looming. On 1 April the first primary care trusts will go live, many combining the responsibility of commissioning around 80 per cent of the local NHS budget with delivering a range of community services.

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    WEB WATCH

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    What do doctors get up to when no-one's looking? What do they wear beneath their trousers? It is in fearless search of the answers to these questions and more that Webwatch sets off this week for the darkest regions of Doctors.net.uk - a closed community for those initiated into the ...

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    A patient address on code-breaking and LSD

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    I was surfing the web at my own sedate pace in search of wisdom about the beta interferon debate when the newspapers hit the mat on Monday morning. Usually I take their front pages in my stride.

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    Standards cannot be lowered to ease staffing

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    365 daze

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    A survey of 12 primarycare groups in their first year found them more concerned with tackling basic operational issues than moving to trust status. Emma Regen and colleagues report

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    Wanted: feet to fill big shoes

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Any structural shake-ups following Sir Alan Langlands' departure must get to grips with how the centre relates to local service providers, writes Stephen Thornton

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    That was then. . .

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    The evolution of British general practice 18501948 By Anne Digby Oxford University Press 376 pages £48

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    Childbearing witness

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Race and childbirth By Savita Katbamna Open University Press 157 pages £18. 99 paperback

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    Mind over a difficult matter

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Practising evidence-based mental health By John Geddes, Andre Tomlin and Jonathan Price Edited by Sharon E Straus Radcliffe Medical Press 264 pages £30

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    People

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Nora Giubertoni has been appointed chair of St Helens & Knowsley health authority, having been chair of St Helens & Knowsley Community trust for the past year and on its board for the previous two years.