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    Suspended judgement

    2001-02-08T00:00:00Z

    A nursing home designed with stakeholder input exposed patient advocates to the highs and lows of bringing a project to fruition, as Simon Jones and Paul Mercer report

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    Long and winding road

    2001-02-08T00:00:00Z

    Refugee doctors could be a valuable resource for the NHS. But they face huge hurdles, including being charged for placements. Barbara Millar reports

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    Lucky break: 'I do not mind where I work. I have already come a long way - more than 9,000 miles'

    2001-02-08T00:00:00Z

    A chance meeting in a public library in Ilford, Essex, resulted in Dr Abebe Diro Ejara, a refugee from Ethiopia, receiving the help he needed to pursue a medical career in the UK.

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    Nursing ambitions for building a new future

    2001-02-08T00:00:00Z

    Any refugee applicant who wants to register with the UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting is treated the same way as any other overseas applicant, explains spokesman John Knape.

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    monitor

    2001-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Well, That is January out of the way - and not a moment too soon, some will say. Even with a flu epidemic possibly just around the corner, we can now sense the first stirrings of the warmer, more optimistic days of spring, when birds will sing, little baa lambs ...

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    Scottish review urges compulsory treatment

    2001-02-01T00:00:00Z

    A review of Scottish mental health legislation has echoed proposals south of the border by calling for compulsory treatment orders in the community and new systems to deal with mentally disordered offenders.

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    Closure of HIV unit as cases soar

    2001-02-01T00:00:00Z

    An independent centre for HIV and AIDS care has announced a series of redundancies and closures in the same week that the Public Health Laboratory Service predicted that the number of new diagnoses looks set to rise again.

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    Days like this

    2001-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Managers may have their performance partly measured against national health promotion targets, according to a Department of Health document.

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    There is the catch

    2001-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Measures to improve relations between the NHS and the prison service are hampered by a suspicion that prison healthcare is not exactly a priority, writes Ann McGauran

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    A perfect partnership?

    2001-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Director of nursing for the prison healthcare taskforce Lindsay Bates says progress with the needs assessments for the PHImPs is 'generally good'and 'all are on target to complete'by the deadline.

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    Turning the tables

    2001-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Private companies are making nice profits from producing highly contentious hospital league tables. is not it time the NHS built up its own expertise in collating performance data? Laura Donnelly reports

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    'Absolutely slamming': Holloway verdict

    2001-02-01T00:00:00Z

    A draft report by Medacs Forensic Services into healthcare provision for prisoners at Holloway was 'absolutely slamming'in its criticisms of attitudes towards sick women prisoners, according to Finola Farrant of the Prison Reform Trust. The document - seen by HSJ - was based on visits to the prison last August. ...

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    After the gold rush

    2001-02-01T00:00:00Z

    The deal is sealed; the new hospital will be built with private money. Robert Naylor, now in the hotseat, tells Tash Shifrin what's next at UCLH

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    The 'free-for-all' in freefall

    2001-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Some deft re-wording was enough to save the day when Scotland's wrangling over personal care costs turned ugly. Lynn Eaton examines the new promises

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    State of the union

    2001-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Mr Naylor admits he 'has to be careful'about UCLH's past industrial relations problems.

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    Labour's deal: an at-a-glance guide to the Scottish solution

    2001-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Susan Deacon's original proposals:

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    A sense of balance in the wake of Alder Hey report

    2001-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Growing public distrust of medicine must be assuaged not encouraged

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    For PEATs' sake, be realistic

    2001-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Teams' hospital tours give hard-pressed managers cause for irritation

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    On short rations

    2001-02-01T00:00:00Z

    As the roll-call of NICE-approved drugs gets longer, health authorities are under increasing pressure to juggle budgets. Jeremy Davies reports

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    The tides they are a changing

    2001-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Governments are constrained by the dominant ideas and beliefs of their day. To change politicians and move in a new direction, one has to set about altering the climate of opinion in which they and the world operate.