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A poor performance
WAIT WATCHER: In the first of a monthly series tracking progress in cutting waiting times, John Yates guages the scale of the task ahead - and questions the chances of achieving it
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Out of sight, out of mind
NEWS FOCUS: Moves are being made to put prison health services on the straight and narrow.Laura Donnelly joined prison service director general Martin Narey on a visit to one prison struggling to turn its service around
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Waits and measures
COMMENT: Progress on these targets is key to future of service - and government
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A shotgun marriage
NEWS FOCUS: What is stopping trusts from reaching long-term agreements with private healthcare providers? Information about the concordat is difficult to come by, so Ann McGauran took a closer look
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Hazard lights
OPEN SPACE: We should accept risk and imperfection in the health service.After all, says Stephen Pattison, It is no less than what we do in the rest of our lives
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Hearing Voices - a new occupational hazard
COMMENT: Frantic attempts to find replacement to CHCs is getting out of hand
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Public pain , private gain
PUBLIC - PRIVATE PARTENERSHIPS: Public-private partnerships have stirred up much controversy, but Karen Bryson and colleagues defend one project in which seven private hospitals treated 1,000 NHS patients who had been waiting over a year
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EVENTS
Meet the new president 25 September, Hertsmere Hertsmere primary care trust is hosting a half-day nursing event featuring Jonathan Asbridge, president of the shadow nursing and midwifery council which will take over from the UKCC in April 2002. Other speakers include Hertsmere PCT director of nursing and intermediate care Marian ...
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Watchdogs scorn 'listening document'
Patient and consumer groups are unimpressed by the government's 'listening document' on reforming the NHS complaints process, published this week after a twoyear evaluation of the procedure in place since 1996.
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Dear Mel. . .
Due to cash shortages, one of our nurses decided to earn some extra money doing some 'modelling'. The nurse concerned was very good at it (or so I am told) and now there are naked pictures all over the porters' lodge. What should I do ?