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    Service of all talents

    2000-08-31T00:00:00Z

    Job opportunities in the health service for people with learning disabilities are growing - and proving beneficial to employer and employee, writes Harriet Gaze

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    Specialists to aid GPs with asylum seekers

    2000-08-31T00:00:00Z

    Leicestershire health authority has promised to bring in a team of specialist nurses and link workers to help GPs cope with an influx of more than 400 asylum seekers, many with serious mental and physical illnesses.

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    Police reject leukaemia death protest against

    2000-08-31T00:00:00Z

    Liberal Democrat MP and Isle of Wight GP Peter Brand is to face no further action over remarks he made in the House of Commons in January during a debate on the proposed Medical Treatment (Prevention of Euthanasia) Bill, which subsequently failed. Hampshire police received a complaint after Dr Brand ...

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    1066 and all that

    2000-08-31T00:00:00Z

    When King Harold got it in the eye, there was no anaesthetic, no blood transfusion - not even a pair of spectacles. A new chronology ofmedicine should add a little perspective to those with tension headaches. Lynne Greenwood reports

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    WEB WATCH

    2000-08-24T00:00:00Z

    There is no particular healthcare management angle to Webwatch this week, but some free services are just so useful that it would be a shame not to mention them.We all need to travel at some time or another, most of us want to know what the weather holds, and a ...

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    Waste not, want not

    2000-08-24T00:00:00Z

    Disposing of drugs people bring with them when they are admitted to hospital is a problem that costs the health service dear. Debbie Campbell and colleagues have a solution

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    Signs of the times

    2000-08-24T00:00:00Z

    Two pages of the NHS plan are given over to a collection of signatures from the great and the good. HSJ asked a handwriting expert to tell us what they revealed.

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    Sign up

    2000-08-24T00:00:00Z

    Yasmin Coskun (left), an advocate and translator, examines a talking sign at the Whittington Hospital in London with patient Hawa Ozkaya.

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    Time to shape up

    2000-08-24T00:00:00Z

    Primary care groups and primary care trusts have exciting freedom to decide on their preferred organisational model.

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    in person

    2000-08-24T00:00:00Z

    Paul Gocke has been appointed chief executive of the new North East London Menta l Hea lth trust , which will take over management of acute and community mental health services provided by BHB Health Care trust, Redbridge Health Care trust and Forest Healthcare trust.He has been deputy chief executive ...

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    Pick your own

    2000-08-24T00:00:00Z

    Does the NHS plan deliver on Tony Blair's grand vision for transforming the delivery of public health, or is it just a list of things to do? Lyn Whitfield looks at what it has to offer

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    Timetable warning for NHS plan

    2000-08-24T00:00:00Z

    London regional director Nigel Crisp has warned the chief executives of the capital's health authorities, trusts and primary care trusts that there will be a 'very complex and very long' process to implement the NHS plan.

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    monitor

    2000-08-24T00:00:00Z

    Very flat, Norfolk, ' as Noel Coward once said. Not any more, though! Frolicking farmers are popping up all over the place, if the latest survey by Tesco pharmacy is to be believed. For Norwich has been hailed as the Viagra capital of Britain. Envy those Norfolk broads: 4 per ...

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    Private sector may have to pay when patients transfer to NHS

    2000-08-24T00:00:00Z

    Government and private healthcare negotiators are locked in talks about whether the private sector should pick up the tab when its patients are transferred to NHS intensive care.

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    Speaking louder than words

    2000-08-24T00:00:00Z

    Handbook of Communication Audits for Organisations Edited by Owen Hargie and Dennis Tourish Routledge 365 pages £19.95

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    Top of the inform

    2000-08-24T00:00:00Z

    Managing Knowledge in Health Services Edited by Andrew Booth and Graham Walton Library Association Publishing 368 pages £45

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    Happy landings?

    2000-08-24T00:00:00Z

    The UK is reliant on overseas nurses more than ever, andmany arrive from countries which have shortages of their own, contravening DoH advice. James Buchan reports

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    Happy from Tunbridge Wells

    2000-08-24T00:00:00Z

    Four Filipino nurses tell Alison Moore what brought them to England, how they find nursing here and their hopes for the future

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    Toast fans feel the heat

    2000-08-24T00:00:00Z

    A Scottish hospital has collected 280 illicit toasters following an amnesty.