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    LAUGHTER IS THE BEST MEDICINE

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    NEWS

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    MONITOR

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    Just occasionally, and really not too often at all, Monitor has a whim. . . a passing fancy, if you like, to read a publication about something other than health management. Usually the moment passes before any harm is done. But at other times, and in particular in weaker moments, ...

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    IN PERSON

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    Philip Moss has been appointed executive director of development at Doncaster and South Humber Healthcare trust.The newly created post will mean Mr Ross is leading the development of the trust's strategic policy.A qualified social worker, he has worked for Milton Keynes development corporation and Sheffield Hallam University.

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    Events

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    Mental health 15 October, Portsmouth 'Mental health in later life' is a course designed for those providing care for older people.

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    Four warned

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    NEWS FOCUS: The new directors of health and social care in England have a pivotal role in the latest NHS upheaval as the regional offices disappear.They know what is being demanded of them, but can they deliver? Alison Moore reports

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    Sweeping the board

    2001-09-27T00:00:00Z

    NEWS FOCUS: A centralising return to the past or a thoroughly modern idea to suit a unique set of circumstances? The new unified boards are Scotland's biggest structural deviation from the NHS in England, as Jennifer Trueland reports

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    Cash 'tonic' for unified boards

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    Days like this - HSJ 26 September 1991

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    NEWS: Guy's building project in trouble. . . HA queries cost of ECR. . . Labour pledge on trusts. . . Bart's in IVF row. . . Secret aid for private hospital

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    Gently does it

    2001-09-27T00:00:00Z

    NEWS FOCUS: Forget traffic lights: the new performance ratings are about spreading learning and improvement - and sensitivity, writes NHS chief executive Nigel Crisp

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    Whole systems approach

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    BOOKS - Dr Jonathan Shapiro Senior fellow, health services management centre, Birmingham University

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    From bad to worse

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    BOOKS - Kieran Walshe Senior research fellow, health services management centre, Birmingham University

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    The book I am reading now

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    BOOKS: Sandra Gidley Liberal Democrat MP for Romsey, speaks for the party on health issues and is a member of the Commons health select committee

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    Independent thought

    2001-09-27T00:00:00Z

    THE SECTOR: IN PROFILE The independent sector is bigger than many imagine. Now changes are afoot that might also open the doors to European healthcare providers. Jeremy Davies reports

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    Acute need

    2001-09-27T00:00:00Z

    ACUTE HOSPITAL SERVICES The NHS is commissioning more work from the independent acute sector, but long-term contracts are slow to emerge. Alison Moore reports