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Who's sorry now?
If Frank Dobson went down badly at the RCN congress, his Tory counterpart did even worse. Lyn Whitfield reports
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Let the people come
The long-term care royal commission roadshow is on its way, giving commissioners valuable insight into the public's views on service reorganisation. Barbara Millar reports
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Make the young pay for the old
Thinking the unthinkable is a New Labour buzz phrase, particularly in relation to the welfare state and its flagship, the NHS. But how unthinkable? How courageous are our politicians prepared to be in formulating policy? How much imagination will managers be allowed to show, and health professionals and patients be ...
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One-time Trot who became a doctor in the House
Way back in February, when Tony Blair's government was a mere nine months old, I caught a late-night adjournment debate in which Dr Ian Gibson, newly-elected Labour MP for Norwich North, tore into the state of British cancer research with knowledge and passion.
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The cultivated commissioner
Only exacting recruitment and training will ensure health professionals can make a success of primary care groups, say Darrin Baines and Nigel Couper
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Life after LIZ
Despite three years of London initiative zone funding, the needs of primary care patients in A&E are still not being met, argue Ross Lawrenson and Geraldine Leydon
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Slow on the uptake
Managers' slothful practices in costing hospital equipment are wasting millions of pounds of NHS money every year, say Peter Cave and Leonora Descombes. And they don't even know they're doing it
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Lacklustre Maples for the chop?
Westminster gossip has fingered shadow health secretary John Maples as a potential reshuffle victim when William Hague attempts to sharpen up the Conservatives' 'lacklustre' performance in opposition.
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Mac the knife reveals his operation desert storm
Guy's Hospital legend has it that in the 1970s surgeon Ian McColl, flew out to Libya, trekked on camel-back deep into the desert where, in a nomad's tent, he ministered to the ulcers and bunions of the infamous dictator, Colonel Ghaddafi.
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Hansard
The government is 'shortly' to publish a consultation document on the future organisation of health and personal social services in Northern Ireland. It will contain proposals for the abolition of the internal market and is likely to herald higher levels of management cost savings than the current target of £2m ...
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Package deals for the home market
DISEASE MANAGEMENT Edited by Roy Lilley Wiley 172 pages £34.95
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Read all about it
WHO CARES? The great British health debate By Oliver Morgan Radcliffe 240 pages £18.50
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THE SOCIAL POLICY OF OLD AGE
Moving into the 21st century Edited by Miriam Bernard and Judith Phillips Centre for Policy on Ageing 336 pages £14