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Indicators launched for Wales
Welsh health minister Jon Owen Jones has launched the country's first set of clinical indicators for hospitals.
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Days like this
Mellor shown up by his family's GP... but tells managers white paper proposals are open for debate... Scottish Labour MPs claim Tories stole their ideas... Nurses oppose regional pay
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At the midnight hour
The government's refusal to fund a national pay deal for the millennium holiday is ruining the party for human resources managers. Barbara Millar reports
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Culture club: problem prevention
Despite cynicism from some doctors, 'more were inspired than usual' about the chance to 'get the culture right', chief medical officer Professor Liam Donaldson told delegates.
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What will NICE do?
Appraise and issue guidelines on management of diseases and use of particular drugs or interventions.
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Streets ahead
A project with a GP surgery is providing healthcare for homeless people who often can't get access to it. But its funding is in danger, writes Kaye McIntosh
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Time to set a finishing line Ministers should say what the NHS reforms must achieve in the long term
Prime minister Tony Blair made his first foray into the health service since last year's NHS 50th anniversary this week (see news, pages 2-3). His appearance to launch 20 new 'walk-in centres' and announce a dramatically widened NHS Direct demonstrates how seriously this government takes primary care reform.
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WEB WATCH MARK CRAIL
The first 'working draft' map of the human gene sequence will be in the public domain by February 2000. By then, according to scientists in the UK and US working on the project, the position of 90 per cent of the 3 billion letters or bases that make up the ...
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Quality of life is what counts - not labelling
Cliff Prior from the National Schizophrenia Fellowship is absolutely correct to separate danger from diagnosis ('Personality disorder debate', letters, 25 March).
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Writer's 'van' reference drove me to distraction
While I applaud Lynn Massey-Davis' desire to experience first-hand what happens on a night shift in Hull ('Siren voices', 18 March) and accept that she says she 'learned a great deal', it is a pity that she did not learn two fundamentals.
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New year honour brought home the lesson that we need to recognise the impact of our mentors
May I, albeit belatedly, use your letters page to thank all the people who wrote to me following my inclusion in the new year honours list.
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National HIV strategy must set clear targets on prevention cash spending
Your report on our survey into how health authorities use the funding they receive for HIV prevention has helped further the debate about the quality and level of HIV prevention services ('AIDS trust attacks HAs in spending row', 25 January).
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Cautious note is timely as reference costs are being done on the cheap with little investment
John Appleby's short article ('Measuring efficiency', data briefing, 11 March) was interesting, but it concentrated too much on the apparent huge anomalies in cost to address some of the real issues. A few more points to consider...