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A bigger splash
Simon Carpenter from Avon health promotion services holds one of the residents of the newly enlarged pond in the nature reserve at Bristol's Frenchay Hospital.
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Jobs at risk as trusts 'face £100m crisis'
Patient services and jobs are at risk as London trusts face a £75m cash crisis, figures obtained by HSJ show.
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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.