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    Let's have a closer look at the role of those expensive trust and HA chairs

    1999-06-24T00:00:00Z

    Are public health doctors a waste of money? Readers reply to columnist Alan Maynard

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    A member of the Drains Faculty asks, what's so special about being a doctor?

    1999-06-24T00:00:00Z

    Are public health doctors a waste of money? Readers reply to columnist Alan Maynard

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    We earn our respect - and without effective sewage systems, you would have died of the plague by now

    1999-06-24T00:00:00Z

    Everyone is entitled to their opinion and to express it. But Professor Maynard, who I have always respected as a fair and decent human being, has contravened the rules by which a free society exists and flourishes.

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    Activists gatecrash director job interview

    1999-06-24T00:00:00Z

    Mental health service users claim to have gatecrashed a job interview for the director of a new organisation spearheading partnership with social services.

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    Mental health shake-up after violence and drugs incidents

    1999-06-24T00:00:00Z

    Birmingham health authority has agreed to spend £350,000 reorganising mental health wards at a local psychiatric hospital after incidents of violence and drug- taking by patients.

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    Open and shut case

    1999-06-24T00:00:00Z

    Acute mental care consumes two-thirds of all mental health resources. But if there were alternative services for inpatients who no longer need intensive support, costs could be halved, suggest Christina Moore and Judith Wolf

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    Right jab

    1999-06-24T00:00:00Z

    GPs have a financial incentive to beat child immunisation targets, but this may compromise their advice to parents - and bring other difficulties. David Tovey argues for a better way

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    Avon calling

    1999-06-24T00:00:00Z

    Putting a health improvement programme in place demands consultation with a huge range of organisations. Linda Ewles reports on how the second largest HA in the country set about it

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    What have we learned?

    1999-06-24T00:00:00Z

    The first lesson was that producing a HImP was a huge task, with many other initiatives competing for resources.

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    Pooling resources

    1999-06-24T00:00:00Z

    Perspectives in public health Edited by Sian Griffiths and David Hunter Radcliffe Medical Press 309 pages £25

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    Speed merchant

    1999-06-24T00:00:00Z

    The PCG tool kit Second edition By Roy Lilley Radcliffe Medical Press 144 pages £30

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    Party time is here to stay

    1999-06-24T00:00:00Z

    Nursing and politics Power through practice Edited by Abigail Masterson and Sian Maslin-Prothero Churchill Livingstone 249 pages £15.95

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    Wise words in defence of a fallen chief

    1999-06-24T00:00:00Z

    It is not entirely a surprise that Audrey Wise, the veteran left-wing MP for Preston, should in recent weeks find herself cast in the rather lonely role of defender of the sacked Guild Community Health Care trust chief executive Les Howell.

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    Health Bill comes through battered but unbowed

    1999-06-24T00:00:00Z

    The government maintained its determined refusal to accept any amendments to the Health Bill from the opposition parties as it completed its report stage and passed to the Lords last week.

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    Gong show

    1999-06-24T00:00:00Z

    Life peer

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    Coded message: don't DIY

    1999-06-24T00:00:00Z

    The Read clinical codes fiasco showed up weaknesses in NHS funding and project management. But the fatal flaw was a stubborn insistence on ignoring US developments and going it alone, argues Peter Mitchell

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    Year 2000 fears grow

    1999-06-24T00:00:00Z

    The NHS Executive is still fighting shy of naming trusts and health authorities that are failing to meet year 2000 bug-fixing targets - even though the number of laggards is growing, according to the most recent quarterly returns.

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    Drugs IT man for top NHS job

    1999-06-24T00:00:00Z

    A pharmaceutical industry IT professional has been appointed as chief executive of the NHS Information Authority.

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    SMS

    1999-06-24T00:00:00Z

    SMS looks likely to win a multi-million-pound hospital IT contract in the north of England following Siemens' withdrawal from the two-year tendering and procurement process. Royal Hull Hospital and East Yorkshire trusts had been working together in a project to replace their ageing ICL-designed IRC patient administration systems. Having originally ...

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    Distant relations

    1999-06-24T00:00:00Z

    A Highlands trust that has to communicate with GPs in far-flung areas is using an intranet-based system to send test results electronically. Peter Mitchell explains how it works