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Silent witness
NEWS FOCUS: Nightly bombing raids have made Afghanistan a perilous place - but the country's inability to feed its people and care for the sick means a cruel fate awaits even those who survive the onslaught.Tash Shifrin reports
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Barefoot doctors
NEWS FOCUS: Doctors, dentists and nurses are living in poverty in the UK.They are the refugees and asylum seekers who, a year ago, were promised a welcome by the hard-pressed NHS.But as Daloni Carlisle reports, little seems to have happened since then
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The odd couple
LAW SPECIAL REPORT: The government is proposing changes to the regulations governing staff transfers in response to the ongoing row over PFI in the NHS. Daniel Lee explains the proposed route through the legal minefield
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You have got bail
LAW SPECIAL REPORT: E-mail may give an illusion of privacy, but employers and employees can easily find themselves on sticky legal ground, as Steve Mathieson explains
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Bully beefs
LAW SPECIAL REPORT: Bullying allegations can come from almost any direction. Constant vigilance is the only defence, says Jo Plumstead
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The rights stuff
LAW SPECIAL REPORT: Now the Human Rights Act 1998 is up and running, David Owens and Susan Thompson wonder what it means in practice for the NHS
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Extra time
Tony Blair has famously pledged to bring health spending up to European levels. But have the better resources put healthcare on the Continent in a different league to the UK's? And, ask John Appleby and Sean Boyle, even if comparable funding were delivere
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in person
Dallas Ariotti, currently director of clinical governance and information for University Hospital Birmingham trust, has been appointed to a new post as director of performance at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital trust. A former nurse, Ms Ariotti's previous roles have included that of principal adviser to the health minister in ...
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Genome alone
picture focus: The 3 billion-letter 'book of life' provides inspiration for an exhibition
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Trolley bad show dashes any lingering hopes
Comment: NHS plan targets are drifting further from being achieved on time
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Victims of the blame game
Comment: Pointing the finger at managers means pointing it at ministers, too
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Law is an ass - but in possession of a spliffingly good idea
I am not convinced that the week's most significant tabloid headline was The Mirror's pun on the Jo Moore affair. 'Today is a very good day to bury Alan Milburn' was its reaction to his decision to double the number of NHS-funded private ops just as the Audit Commission reported ...
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Lies, damned lies and spinners
wait watcher What can we make of the Department of Health's waiting-list statistics or, more specifically, their nonappearance? Professor John Yates asks whether it is a case of government spin or plain lies