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    Monitor

    1998-08-13T00:00:00Z

    Life-long learning is a wonderful thing. So Monitor leapt joyously out of bed at 6.10am one day last week to watch episode 12 in the BBC2 series running alongside the Open University's social science foundation course. And who was the bearded man spouting forth on regional policy in the midst ...

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    Hospital and Social Service Journal

    1998-08-13T00:00:00Z

    13 August 1948

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    Events

    1998-08-13T00:00:00Z

    Items are entered free for public sector, voluntary and professional organisations, but we need at least six weeks' notice of your event. Please send details to Uli Jaeger, HSJ, Porters South, 4 Crinan Street, London N1 9XW. Fax: 0171-843 4670.

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    In Person

    1998-08-13T00:00:00Z

    Joan Higgins, professor of health policy at Manchester University and deputy director of its health services management unit, has been re-appointed chair of Manchester health authority.

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    Sure thing

    1998-08-13T00:00:00Z

    Several Midlands community schemes to help poor families are potential models for the government's pre-school Sure Start scheme. Pat Healy examines their impact

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    Morale victory

    1998-08-13T00:00:00Z

    The battle for Bart's came to typify patients' fears and managers' frustrations about the changes to the NHS everywhere. Mark Gould reports

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    An opportunity to sit down and discuss pay for today

    1998-08-13T00:00:00Z

    But if staff- side organisations can't agree, what hope of a national deal?

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    Not such a premium service

    1998-08-13T00:00:00Z

    'It is almost impossible to buy a traditional indemnity health plan in New York. Most of the insurance companies don't offer them any more and those that do are unaffordable for all but Bill Gates'

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    WEB WATCH

    1998-08-13T00:00:00Z

    The truth is out there. But trawling through what passes for healthcare advice on the Internet, you wouldn't know it. In a week that sees the advent of the International Trepanation Advocacy Group online, you may well feel that you need more of it like you need a hole in ...

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    Bishops and the Lords - God's unholy alliance

    1998-08-13T00:00:00Z

    NOISES OFF

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    Letters

    1998-08-13T00:00:00Z

    Waiting lists

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    Fathers' children are not part of the eligibility criteria for infertility treatment

    1998-08-13T00:00:00Z

    I was surprised to read in your cover feature 'The cost of living' (pages 22-25, 23 July) that Shetland health board operates an eligibility criterion for assisted conception which states 'no living children fathered by current partner'.

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    Unequal access is a problem at tertiary level, but couples can be helped by primary and secondary care

    1998-08-13T00:00:00Z

    The cover feature 'The cost of living' highlighted the lack of equal access to assisted conception treatments.

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    As seen on TV

    1998-08-13T00:00:00Z

    Hospitals are often approached by television programme-makers, eager for news footage, a good film location or a subject for a major documentary. Patrick Butler looks at the pros and cons of letting the cameras in

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    Cancer care on camera

    1998-08-13T00:00:00Z

    George Cathro is making a television series on cancer care at the Western General Hospitals trust in Edinburgh. The project was partly inspired by personal experience - both his parents died of cancer.

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    Media relations

    1998-08-13T00:00:00Z

    Coping with international coverage: the Mandy Allwood story

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    A year in the life of Great Ormond Street

    1998-08-13T00:00:00Z

    'We felt it was in our interests to let people see how Great Ormond Street operates,' says Ros Cliffe, director of public affairs and general fundraising, explaining why the trust decided to let the BBC's Children's Hospital series on its wards for the whole of 1995. It was not a ...

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    Shop talk

    1998-08-13T00:00:00Z

    With pharmacists in short supply, one trust solved its recruitment problems in a ground-breaking partnership with the local supermarket. Ailsa Granne and Louise Wallace explain

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    Side by side

    1998-08-13T00:00:00Z

    A specialist mental health worker liaising with general practices can reduce pressure on children's services. Edmundo Neira-Munoz and Derek Ward report on a pilot study

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    Key Points

    1998-08-13T00:00:00Z

    The appointment of a primary care mental health worker can relieve pressure on child and adolescent mental health services.