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Commissioner sheds light on GP 'anomaly'
Health service commissioner Michael Buckley has highlighted 'an apparent anomaly' in the directions given to health authorities and trusts on their roles in the new NHS complaints system.
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Days like these
45 bids for trust status... Unions ousted from health boards... Manager quits to steer Guy's... GPs pull back... White paper cash warning...
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Mr Nice Guy: the very popular Stuart Marples
'Incredibly special' is how Sandy Bradbury, medical directorate nurse manager at the Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals trust, describes chief executive Stuart Marples.
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Take it from the top The New Health Network is impeccably connected, but is it a political front organisation? Not at all, say its organisers. Mark Crail reports
When prime minister Tony Blair sends a specially recorded video urging people to join your cause and health secretary Frank Dobson rolls up in person to underline the plea, you know you have high-level backing.
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All Right now The new reforms would be unthinkable without the Thatcher years, says Professor Alain Enthoven, architect of the internal market. Mark Crail reports
'Despite the rhetoric, and I can understand that every political party wants to distance itself from the other one, I do see that a lot of what is happening is building on the reforms of the early 1990s,' says Professor Alain Enthoven.
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Condemnation: conference blasts the bombers
The conference unanimously endorsed a statement condemning the nail bomb attacks in the multi-racial Brick Lane and Brixton areas of London.
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OBITUARY: HOWARD GOODMAN
Hospital architect Howard Goodman died on 22 April after a period of illness. He was 71. Ray Moss recalls his life
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There's no grace in this saving Unison members are treating meanness with the contempt it deserves
The second anniversary of Labour's coming to power passed just days after Unison members had voted by three to one to ballot on a strike over the millennium weekend in protest at the government's refusal to agree a national pay bonus for staff who work during the holiday.
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WEB WATCH MARK CRAIL
Medical charities clocked up a £399m investment in university research during 1997-98, and are thought to have put in a further £471m in the past year.
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'Airline ticket' approach to consultations will hit needy
Suddenly we have been told that NHS Direct will go far beyond an advisory telephone service, with every practice connected to it and direct- access services in main streets and shopping malls, though independent investigators are beginning to question the cost-effectiveness of the basic telephone service.
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It's the times that are a changin' job titles - not senior managers' egos
Steve Ainsworth's article on job titles (Yorkshire terrier, 8 April) seems to be based on an assumption that senior NHS managers have for years been on some sort of power trip, succumbing to craving more and more impressive- sounding titles which would 'truly reflect and encapsulate their worth and importance'.
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Conservative estimates of attendance figures may have given wrong idea
Just for the record, I am writing following the news focus about my 'Listening to Britain' meeting in Camberwell ('Hammond dregs', 18 March).
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Royal visits Patron has proved a loyal friend since 1965
I know that your list 'who does what' of royal patronage was not intended to be exhaustive ('Roll out the red carpet', 8 April), but I should point out that Princess Alexandra has been associated with our hospital since its opening in 1965 and agreed last year to continue as ...