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Is the tail wagging the dog when it comes to planning patterns of service delivery for the future?
How big should hospitals be? Different reports have produced different answers. And because new hospitals have been built with little or no regard to their conclusions, the NHS continues to boast a capital stock with wide differences in size and variety.
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Settling in: the portfolio career
As chair of South Western and then South and West regional health authority at the height of the market reforms of the early 1990s, Rennie Fritchie was popular and admired as the liberal, caring (and only female) face of the NHS policy board.
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monitor
It was fluffy bunnies at the local animal sanctuary (Monitor, 18 February). But now Monitor can reveal the real John Hutton. He is born to be mild. Our man in the waterproofs and trilby crash helmet was ushered into the junior health minister's presence last week to hear about government ...
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Key points
The position of large teaching hospitals in the NHS is being challenged by changing patterns of medical education and the expansion of services offered by acute hospitals.
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Key points
A survey of 30 trusts in the West Midlands, conducted last summer, found only four ready to implement a plan for evidence-based medicine and clinical governance.
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Bending the rules
Plymouth health action zone is about to start work on two strands of prescribing-related policy via its lead pharmacist and the coterminous local primary care group.