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    Shop rejection hits hospital plan

    2000-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Plans to build a £14.5m community hospital in Manchester have been set back by Manchester city council's rejection of a proposed supermarket next door.

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    The strengths of independent review panels

    2000-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    monitor

    2000-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Monitor readers paying close attention will shiver to hear the name Minette Marin. Just months ago, The Daily Telegraph's very own lady columnist revealed herself as the power behind that nice Mr Milburn's elbow. It was she, back in April, who first thought that national guidelines on hospital cleaning would ...

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    in person

    2000-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Stuart Heatherington has been appointed chair of Worthing and Southlands Hospitals trust. He joins the trust from Worthing Priority Care trust where he was chair.

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    A spanner in the works

    2000-06-08T00:00:00Z

    A decade ago, the radical 'reengineering' of Leicester Royal Infirmary was steeped in controversy. But did the revolution ever happen? Peter Pallot reports

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    WEB WATCH

    2000-06-08T00:00:00Z

    MARK CRAIL

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    Too much fuss about a perfectly valid point

    2000-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    Pace accelerates on surplus asset sell-off

    2000-06-01T00:00:00Z

    The government has indicated that the programme to sell off surplus NHS assets could be accelerated following the publication of a report estimating £60m could be raised each year.

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    Dispersed asylum seekers 'need improved health access'

    2000-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Health authorities need to improve health assessments for asylum seekers and ensure they have access to primary care and mental health services, according to the Audit Commission.

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    Drugs producer threatens to halt production after DoH price cap

    2000-06-01T00:00:00Z

    The UK's biggest manufacturer of generic drugs has threatened to stop production in the wake of the government's move to cap prices.

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    There is nothing like an aim

    2000-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Heather Goil's early ambition was to work as a volunteer in a developing country. Nearing retirement, she set off for the Pacific for two years

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    The state we're in - is all really as it seems?

    2000-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Flu-fuelled winter 'crisis' was a figment of the media's imagination

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    Nurses and professions allied to medicine

    2000-06-01T00:00:00Z

    The focus of planning for all staff, including nurses and everyone from physiotherapists to laboratory staff and clinical psychologists, is at trust level. For nurses, 'bottom up' five-year workforce plans from trusts feed up to education consortia, which then aggregate plans from trusts and other employers, such as nursing homes ...

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    Armchair theatre

    2000-06-01T00:00:00Z

    The government's plan to get elderly people out of acute hospitals and into private care to free beds may leave older people fearing hospital admission as they once did the workhouse, argues Roger Bullock

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    Time to stop horsing around

    2000-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Much has been made of the rise of the 'bidding culture', where developments are allocated funding after competitive bids.Most comment has been negative: why should funds be apportioned on the basis of bidwriting skills? Where does the concept of need fit? Why introduce money this way when there is so ...

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    What's in a letter: from category C to B?

    2000-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Sir Richard Tilt's inquiry also called for £55m to be spent upgrading security facilities at the three special hospitals to prison category B standard, from category C. There have been seven escapes in the past decade and none since 1994.

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    Hospital report set to back whistleblowers

    2000-06-01T00:00:00Z

    An investigation into claims that staff were 'victimised' for raising concerns about a leading radiology unit is expected to be severely critical of senior managers.

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    Getting back on its feet

    2000-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Turning the NHS around has been likened to steering a supertanker: you can't just change things overnight, because the ship has a momentum all its own.