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    King's new reign

    1998-04-09T00:00:00Z

    The King's Fund is undergoing a massive shake-up as well as something of a slimming exercise. Pat Healy looks at the organisation that is emerging

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    A sense of security

    1998-04-09T00:00:00Z

    Ashworth Hospital's top managers insist it has a future beyond its current problems. Dolly Chadda reports

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    Rural retreat

    1998-04-09T00:00:00Z

    The first cottage hospital has closed despite Labour's pledge to retain them. Patrick Butler reports

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    What goes up. . .

    1998-04-09T00:00:00Z

    MPs' inability to hold the NHS to account may be more of a problem than the 'democratic deficit'. Mark Crail reports

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    Pay slip?

    1998-04-02T00:00:00Z

    Are senior managers in health authorities right to have misgivings about their new pay scheme? Dolly Chadda reports

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    Log on and like it

    1998-04-02T00:00:00Z

    NHS head of IT Frank Burns previewed his IM&T strategy at the Healthcare Computing '98 conference. Peter Mitchell was there

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    Going to town on health policy

    1998-04-02T00:00:00Z

    And so it came to pass that in the early years of the 21st century, dealing with the aftermath of London's numerous health service reviews became the responsibility of. . . millionaire novelist, bon viveur and onetime Tory grandee Jeffrey Archer.

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    WE MEANT TO BE OPEN

    1998-04-02T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    COMMUNICATION IS KEY

    1998-04-02T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    LET THE MERIT SYSTEM TAKE ITS NATURAL COURSE

    1998-04-02T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    . . . AND FOR CARERS OF DEMENTIA SUFFERERS

    1998-04-02T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    Abolish TV licence fees - and build a new hospital every year

    1998-04-02T00:00:00Z

    Abolishing the TV licence fee would save almost £100m a year - money that could be better spent on the NHS.

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    Focus pocus or change?

    1998-04-02T00:00:00Z

    Trends in New Labour's health record are emerging now it has been in office for 11 months.

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    Top-shelf Tess in a fruitless search for a good read

    1998-04-02T00:00:00Z

    The other night I caught Tessa Jowell on Channel 4 News battling against undue sexual candour in teenage girls' magazines that are actually read by pre-teens.

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    monitor

    1998-04-02T00:00:00Z

    Is the gloss starting to rub off New Labour's shiny health team? Or is the manager who penned Monitor a clever parody of one of Alan Milburn's encouraging little speeches alone in feeling a tad disillusioned? In the week Al had chief execs in for a chat about getting waiting ...

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    All our Yesterdays

    1998-04-02T00:00:00Z

    2 April 1948

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    WEB WATCH

    1998-04-02T00:00:00Z

    What is the world coming to? That bastion of impenetrable bureaucracy, the World Health Organisation, has redesigned its web site, and, for the first time since the Pentagon got the idea of linking up its computers to help it win the third world war, it has become an accessible and ...

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    Jack in a box

    1998-04-02T00:00:00Z

    Mark Taylor, chief executive of Royal Brompton Hospital trust, uses a telemedicine link to talk to his opposite number at Harefield Hospital trust, John Hunt (pictured on screen). The link allows doctors to discuss medical data without travelling up and down the 16 miles of motorway between the two hospitals. ...

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    Green light for first wave of HAZs and merged trusts

    1998-04-02T00:00:00Z

    The government's health service reforms took shape this week with formal approval for the first wave of health action zones and a new raft of hospital mergers.