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Averting disaster
New guidance from the Department of Health on NHS planning for major incidents offers timely advice to the Dome's organisers.
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Head for figures
Visitors to the body zone at the Dome will be able to explore the inside of a giant sculpture of two people embracing (see computer-generated image, left). The reclining figures - of indeterminate sex - will contain images and music focusing on the body. Outside will be an exploration area ...
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monitor
Monitor was most impressed by the way the private Grovelands Priory Hospital dealt with our dear friend Augusto Pinochet. After all, not every bed blocker gets a blue-light London ambulance to take them home. But it did make Monitor wonder whether a similar facility was on offer to others in ...
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Faint praise for Charter
The government has given a lukewarm response to television executive Greg Dyke's recommendations for a new Patient's Charter.
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How chairs and board members will be paid
Chairs at PCG level one will be paid up to £11,445 for a population of under 75,000 and up to £13,225 for more than 75,000, plus up to £6,000 for locum cover.
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Party faithful
Trusts say it will be business as usual on millennium eve, but paying up to 10 times normal rates may be the only way to guarantee staffing levels.
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Wheezy white paper sends out weak smoke signals We should demand more than this disappointing document has to offer
Welcome though the tobacco white paper will be if it saves even one life (and it will surely save far more than that), it was in truth a disappointing document afforded an unwarranted easy ride by the many professional and lobby groups which usually campaign with such vigour (See News ...
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A curtain call for the dame The reinvention of Sheila Masters - we are all New Labour now
Few involved in NHS finances will be surprised by the Treasury white paper's £1bn savings target for health service running costs (See News, pages 4-5). The chancellor first announced the figure last July when he set out the results of the comprehensive spending review.
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Testing out a new set of teeth
'PCGs will want to be sure the means to achieve quality and value for money exist, otherwise many will say they have lost their old teeth and the new set don't bite'
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Through a glass darkly - a peep at the real world
I bumped into Marjorie Wallace, chief executive of Sane, at a Christmas party the other evening.