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Date line: a guide to key legislation and guidance
1948 National Assistance Act section 21 sets out local authorities' duty to provide residential care for people in need.
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'Tremendous resiliance': settling in
The Red Road flats, in the north of Glasgow, stand in one of the city's poorest neighbourhoods.
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So that's agreed, then?
The Treasury has plans to extend public service agreements to health authorities and trusts, and the targets it sets may get tougher. Mark Crail reports
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Getting it together: lateral thinking
The majority of teams came from single organisations. But a lateral approach paid off for others.
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The truly great pretenders Trouble in Borsetshire brings out managers' best in first HSJ challenge
Health services in the fictional county of Borsetshire are every manager's nightmare. An escalating health authority deficit, a recently merged acute trust with deep-rooted tensions, a prying MP, ever-more demanding patients, a naughty non-executive, a wayward single-handed GP and serious worries about year 2000 compliance. All this and an implacable ...
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WEB WATCH MARK CRAIL
No fashionable organisation is complete these days without a website to call its own. So it is with the positively Blairite New Health Network, which, though not yet in cyberspace, certainly has something trundling towards the launch pad.
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Tuberculosis: still a serious public health issue
Having some family experience of tuberculosis, your article 'King's Evil reigns again' (news focus, page 14, 29 April) made chilling reading.
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Two-week waiting target depends on numbers thought to have cancer, not just those who do
We recently surveyed GP referrals to secondary care with a differential diagnosis of cancer. We grossed up the number of referrals to annual levels for the whole of Buckinghamshire and compared them to actual annual cancer registration.
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Ensuring the disadvantaged aren't bottom of the heap
It is a pity that Donald Coid and Desmond Ryan ('Historical novel', page 28-29, 15 April) presented their important comment on the challenge of de-industrialisation in such a gratuitously negative way, and arguably several years behind events.
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A stand on ceremony
I was surprised that your article on royal visits ('Why roll out the red carpet...' cover feature, 8 April) made no reference to a guide to hospital visits called Ceremonial Occasions, produced by North West Thames regional health authority and widely used by trusts. Your own publication included a feature ...