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    Head to head

    1999-11-11T00:00:00Z

    Is the NHS overlooking an important resource by making limited use of mentors? Janet Snell reports

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    Regeneration game

    1999-11-11T00:00:00Z

    A health authority which won special funds to develop its most deprived districts has lessons for other bidders. Barbara Millar reports

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    Five chairs, but no sofa

    1999-11-11T00:00:00Z

    After six months in post, deputy health service ombudsman Hilary Scott reflects on her transition from the NHS to the civil service

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    Would you credit it?

    1999-11-11T00:00:00Z

    Making sense of the private finance initiative

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    Decent starter but not a main course

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    The informed practice nurse

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    Distilled, aged and distinctive

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    Health policy in Britain

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    In person

    1999-11-11T00:00:00Z

    Dr Chris Burke has become chief executive of Stockport Acute Services trust.

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    Events

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    Staff support

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    Monitor

    1999-11-11T00:00:00Z

    Monitor has been much concerned at the lack of imagination in naming those PFI hospitals. Boring old monikers that tell you stuff about where the hospital can be found, for example. So hats off to Dartford and Gravesham trust, which has boldly decided to call its shiny new flagship the ...

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    monitor

    1999-11-04T00:00:00Z

    If life were fair, a reward would be winging its way to the press office at 10 Downing Street as a thank-you for passing on news of our pal Joe McCrea. But it isn't, so it won't be. Apparently, having found his skills surplus to requirements in the Department of ...

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    GADFLY

    1999-11-04T00:00:00Z

    A few foetid days after talking the Admiral into agreeing to Tarantino's sacking, Greycoat prepared the execution chamber.

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    Equal to the occasion

    1999-11-04T00:00:00Z

    Health secretary Alan Milburn is keen to assure social services that they are equal partners with the NHS. But he warned that means signing up to a similar strict regime of regulation. Pat Healy reports

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    Insurance policy

    1999-11-04T00:00:00Z

    It's not 'repugnant' privatisation and he doesn't have any himself, but shadow health secretary Dr Liam Fox thinks health insurance is the key to improving health outcomes, as he tells Patrick Butler

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    Read my lips. . .

    1999-11-04T00:00:00Z

    In his speech in the Commons last week, Dr Fox declared:

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    A jab in the dark

    1999-11-04T00:00:00Z

    How would the NHS cope with a quarter of the population ill or dying from flu? Mark Gould reports on the Department of Health's contingency plan for the next flu pandemic, which experts believe is on its way shortly

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    Arts surgery

    1999-11-04T00:00:00Z

    A new national council aims to promote the use of music, dance, drama and painting in the health service. Laura Donnelly tunes in

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    The French connection

    1999-11-04T00:00:00Z

    While trade relations between Britain and France nose-dived, a meeting of minds on health highlighted much common ground, writes Barbara Millar

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    Cross-channel career

    1999-11-04T00:00:00Z

    David Fraser got involved with Health Rendezvous - chairing this year's conference - because of an interest in French healthcare. Though now chief executive of Dumfries and Galloway primary care trust, he once worked in the French public healthcare system.

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    As winter begins to bite so will a newly sceptical media

    1999-11-04T00:00:00Z

    Managers should beware as Milburn passes on the pressure to deliver