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    Short cuts

    1998-07-23T00:00:00Z

    Sacked LAS manager goes to industrial tribunal

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    Scottish boards' trust shake-ups challenge white paper pattern

    1998-07-23T00:00:00Z

    Health boards serving Scotland's two biggest cities are to press ahead with trust reconfiguration plans which run counter to the model set out in the government's Designed to Care white paper.

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    The Lothian plans

    1998-07-23T00:00:00Z

    One acute hospital trust covering the Royal Infirmary, Western General Hospital and the Royal Hospital for Sick Children.

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    The Glasgow plans

    1998-07-23T00:00:00Z

    One north Glasgow acute trust covering Glasgow Royal Infirmary, West Glasgow Hospital, Stobhill Hospital, and Glasgow Dental Hospital and School.

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    The woman in the moon

    1998-07-23T00:00:00Z

    The woman in the moon: medical student Claire Etchell takes a rest from modelling a costume created by Doncaster College fashion students for the Dreamheart Appeal. The costume is based on the logo used by the appeal, which aims to raise pounds1m to buy equipment for patients with heart disease.

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    Accountants bid for new body

    1998-07-23T00:00:00Z

    NHS finance managers could find themselves subject to a new professional accountancy body if proposals put forward by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants get the go-ahead.

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    Donaldson appointed chief medical officer

    1998-07-23T00:00:00Z

    Northern and Yorkshire regional director Professor Liam Donaldson is to take over as chief medical officer for England on a top-ranking civil service salary worth up to pounds164,000 a year.

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    Why making some noise may keep the cash coming

    1998-07-16T00:00:00Z

    While the public stay committed to the NHS, the government must listen

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    Health ministers' statements just ain't what they used to be

    1998-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Baroness is no Bevanite on cottage hospitals or plain speaking

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    monitor

    1998-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Greetings from Cardiff, where Monitor has spent a happy few days gorging on the generous hospitality offered at the British Medical Association's annual representative meeting. So nice to attend the conference of an organisation which can afford it for a change.

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    16 July 1948

    1998-07-16T00:00:00Z

    The King's Fund's future was raised at its annual genera l meeting by its president, the Duke of Gloucester.

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    NICE work if you can fund it

    1998-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Details of the government's quality drive are emerging, but managers are concerned at the lack of funding for the new initiatives and worried that they may be lost among other demands. Pat Healy reports

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    A matter for complaint

    1998-07-16T00:00:00Z

    The health service commissioner does not deal with staff whistleblowers, and only a fraction of complaints from the public concern clinical judgement. Could he really help prevent a recurrence of the Bristol tragedy? Mark Gould finds out

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    The great pretenders

    1998-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Anyone can claim to be a paramedic, but steps are being taken to freeze out the fraudsters who blight the profession. Patrick Butler reports

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    Shamed and blamed

    1998-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Former hospital orderly Paul Corney was convicted of administering prescription drugs to a motorway crash victim.

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    Be sceptical of the capitalists

    1998-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Resale price maintenance is a remarkable device for ensuring that the manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers of over-the counter drugs are kept in the style to which they are accustomed. The consumer can go to Asda and buy Anadin, a branded aspirin product protected by RPM, for about £1.80.

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    WEB WATCH

    1998-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Few diseases and conditions have quite as much attention directed at them as HIV and AIDS. A quick Alta Vista search on the two sets of initials throws up an immediate 32 categories and 1,066 sites. No doubt further thought on the search terms would uncover many others.

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    Level-headed Milburn won't forget his friends

    1998-07-16T00:00:00Z

    What does a minister do when he opens the Sunday newspapers and unexpectedly finds himself tipped for greatness: promotion to the Cabinet as chief secretary to the Treasury, the legendary 'Abominable No-Man', no less? It happened to Alan Milburn two weekends ago.

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    Prime minister is an inspiration to us all

    1998-07-16T00:00:00Z

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