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Trial and error
A typicals for treating schizophrenia received the thumbs-up at an HSJ debate, but some condemned trials backing their use. Laura Donnelly was there
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Payroll pilots will explore shared services
All NHS payroll and accounts services could be dealt with by as few as 10 shared service centres under plans being discussed by the NHS Executive.
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PM stands firm over a public NHS
Tony Blair has restated his commitment to a centrally funded health service, pouring cold water on Conservative plans for an expansion of private healthcare and ruling out tax breaks for private policy-holders as a 'deadweight cost'.
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Website to monitor flu outbreaks
An Internet scheme to monitor flu outbreaks and alert hospitals has been launched in the North West region.
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Oh God, give them strength
What are you feeling, Doctor? Identifying and avoiding defensive patterns in the consultation By John Salinsky and Paul Sackin Radcliffe Medical Press 192 pages £19.95 paperback
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Gone in a puff of smoke
Health ministers thought they could get a European ban on cigarette advertising by adapting the EU directive on internal markets. They were wrong, but the anti-smoking lobby is not despondent. Tony Sheldon reports
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New range of tableware to impress your guests
Monitor's item about the unusual Orkney pottery (5 October) is of great interest to those of us who know the potter, Andrew Appleby.
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'No need to panic' over who will replace the London region 'hard hitter' says his stand-in
London regional chair Ian Mills says there is 'no need to panic' over the appointment of a permanent successor to the departing Nigel Crisp.
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Stick to the letter of socialism
The following letter to the health secretary Alan Milburn has been leaked. It was copied to Scottish health minister Susan Deacon, who also had socialist tendencies once.
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A question of trust
The NHS plan promises that powers to create new care trusts will be made available to primary care trusts and to local authorities with social services responsibilities.
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'£5,000 pay gap between some nurse consultants'
There are stark differences in the starting salaries paid to nurse consultants, according to a survey carried out by analysts Industrial Relations Services. The survey found marked geographical variations, with average pay in Eastern region at £35,031, almost £5,000 more than in North West region, where minimum salaries average £30,155. ...
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£6. 3m deficit-trust's board 'was warned'of cash crisis
A leaked report into England's highest trust deficit has concluded that danger signals pointing to the trust's impending financial crisis were 'not hidden'from its management board.
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Study finds 'no evidence'of action on 1992 review
An inquiry into heart surgery at the cardiac unit at Liverpool's Alder Hey children's hospital has found no evidence that an action plan had been put in place after an earlier investigation.
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Talk about the speeches
If there is one theme to emerge from the Institute of Healthcare Management's annual conference, it is the sense of disappointment that the new organisation has not achieved the profile or the influence that it might have done.
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Courts may not be so robust as claims under new act pour in
However much ministers may try to downplay the effects of the Human Rights Act, it's clear that the courts are going to face a barrage of claims.