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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Generics price rise hits NHS for £200m

    2000-08-17T00:00:00Z

    The full cost to the NHS of last year's jump in generic drug prices has been revealed as £200m.

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    News: Dental action plan

    2000-08-17T00:00:00Z

    Scotland has decided to spend part of its share of the additional money raised by increased tobacco taxes on a three-year programme to provide free toothbrushes and toothpaste for infants in deprived areas. The initiative is part of a dental action plan announced this week. One target is that 60 ...

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    West Surrey HA ads were not misleading

    2000-08-17T00:00:00Z

    The Advertising Standards Authority has dismissed a complaint about West Surrey health authority and Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals trust by MP David Wilshire.The MP complained that the advertisements about the future of emergency services at Ashford Hospital were misleading.The ASA concluded they were not.HA chief executive Jenny Griffiths said ...

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    Race equality advisers appointed in Wales

    2000-08-17T00:00:00Z

    Two race equality advisers are to work within the NHS in Wales. Michael Banner and Dee Hines-Johnson are being employed by Bro Taf health authority in posts funded by the Welsh Assembly for two years. Mr Banner has worked on race and equality issues for 12 years. Ms Hines-Johnson has ...

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    Welcome suggestions for advocacy service

    2000-08-17T00:00:00Z

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