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Cross-channel career
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
Managers should beware as Milburn passes on the pressure to deliver
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Take a deep breath and try again
Parliamentary time is needed to put the tobacco ad ban beyond doubt
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Coming down to earth
Expectations have been sky-high ever since the announcement of the mental health national service framework in June 1998, and at last it is published .
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To sum up, Hutton's not a calculating character
Dining in intimidating company the other evening, I found myself seated next to a distinguished medical academic. A man of lifelong Labour persuasion, he was nonetheless fiercely sceptical of the evidence-based approach to NHS drugs policy as represented by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence.
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Langlands blames market for unknown cost of IT strategy
NHS chief executive Sir Alan Langlands has blamed the internal market for being unable to say how much was spent on the NHS's first information management and technology strategy or exactly what it achieved.
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Booking pilots present 'challenges'
The introduction of airline-style booked admission systems to the NHS presented a series of 'unforeseen challenges and obstacles' that required 'ingenuity and creativity to overcome', according to an independent survey.
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Consultants seek region control of development
Consultants have called for health secretary Alan Milburn to restore regional responsibility for shaping hospital developments.
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300 NHS staff could be seconded to CHI
Up to 300 staff could be seconded from frontline NHS jobs to the Commission for Health Improvement, which was given its official launch by prime minister Tony Blair this week.
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Improving cancer services: CHI's first task
Top of the Commission for Health Improvement's agenda is cancer care. A joint inquiry with the Audit Commission is scheduled for next year, working closely with the government's newly appointed cancer 'czar' Professor Mike Richards.
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Spell it out for me
Primary care groups and trusts must be crystal clear on what action they will take when guidelines from the National Institute for Clinical Excellence arrive, says Alan Earl-Slater