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    Remembering the people who matter

    2001-03-15T00:00:00Z

    BOOKS : 'I need to be me' By Elizabeth Barnett Jessica Kingsley 224 pages £14. 95

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    To the letter

    2001-03-15T00:00:00Z

    Internet messaging has taken off, but the NHS faces problems with the pace of change. Jane Dudman explains the differences between old and new systems

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    Let's learn from Wales

    2001-03-15T00:00:00Z

    LETTERS

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    Informing the patient

    2001-03-15T00:00:00Z

    LETTERS

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    Stars and gripes

    2001-03-15T00:00:00Z

    The knives are already out in some quarters for American Beverly Malone, who beat post of RCN general secretary.

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    Government must produce HIV strategy

    2001-03-15T00:00:00Z

    LETTERS

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    NHS net's future role up for grabs

    2001-03-15T00:00:00Z

    The NHS will not be able to meet the requirements of the NHS plan with a private IT network guarded by 'barbed wire boundaries', according to the NHS Information Authority's new head of access services.

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    Size is not everything

    2001-03-15T00:00:00Z

    Are the new health authorities coming through this week likely to be better and beefier - or just bigger and harder to manage? Ann McGauran reports

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    Events

    2001-03-15T00:00:00Z

    Clinical directorship 28 March, London 'How to be an excellent clinical director in a modernised NHS' is a British Association of Medical Managers seminar.

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    spotlight on. . . e-procurement

    2001-03-15T00:00:00Z

    Companies are vying with each other to offer eprocurement solutions to the NHS, ahead of the publication of a national e-procurement strategy.

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    DoH struggles to find formula for traffic-light fund

    2001-03-15T00:00:00Z

    The Department of Health is struggling to come up with meaningful measures for allowing access to the £250m performance fund and introducing the traffic-light bandings of trusts and health authorities this summer.

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    Doctor who killed escapes punishment

    2001-03-15T00:00:00Z

    LEGAL BRIEFING

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    ours is but to do or die

    2001-03-15T00:00:00Z

    NHS IT has a bright future - if we adapt fast, says Lyn Whitfield

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    Days like this

    2001-03-15T00:00:00Z

    Selling surplus buildings. . . Reducing phone bills. . . Explosion of bureaucracy as management jobs increase. . . Nurse grading appeals. . .

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    Short cuts

    2001-03-15T00:00:00Z

    Budget warning follows latest NICE drug approvals The National Institute for Clinical Excellence has approved the use of orlistat for obesity and pioglitazone for type-2 diabetes by the NHS in England and Wales. Orlistat may be prescribed to clinically obese adults who also have another serious illness such as high ...

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    The cruellest month

    2001-03-15T00:00:00Z

    April will see the expansion of primary care trusts, heralding a shower of mergers across trusts and primary care groups. But That is not all: also on the agenda are a new concentration of acute trusts and the conversion of many GPs to personal medical se

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    the young people's health congress

    2001-03-15T00:00:00Z

    Catching them early: the young people's health congress, involving more than 100 youngsters from around Scotland, took part in a mock health debate in the Scottish Parliament.

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    Confed sighs as election salvo hits out at 'interfering managers'

    2001-03-15T00:00:00Z

    Manager bashing has made its first appearance of the general election campaign, with a Conservative Party leaflet attacking Labour over 'interfering'NHS managers.