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King's new reign
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
Ashworth Hospital's top managers insist it has a future beyond its current problems. Dolly Chadda reports
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Rural retreat
The first cottage hospital has closed despite Labour's pledge to retain them. Patrick Butler reports
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What goes up. . .
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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Log on and like it
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
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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Abolish TV licence fees - and build a new hospital every year
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?
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
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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WEB WATCH
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
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
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.