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    How to settle old scores

    2000-02-24T00:00:00Z

    The GP quiz book 2 Further detection and management of physical disease By Alick Munro Radcliffe Medical Press 191 pages £17.95

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    Into the hot seat: could it be. . . ?

    2000-02-24T00:00:00Z

    This Week

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    Milburn may not mourn his passing, but managers will

    2000-02-24T00:00:00Z

    Health secretary's return may have been the final straw for Langlands

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    Winning hearts and minds

    2000-02-24T00:00:00Z

    Work pressures make life difficult for managers and clinicians - and dangerous for patients. Thelma Agnew hears frank talk at a seminar on work culture

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    Work record is questioned at tribunal hearing

    2000-02-24T00:00:00Z

    A manager who accused a trust chief executive of sexual harassment was questioned this week about her work record at an employment tribunal hearing.

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    GADFLY

    2000-02-24T00:00:00Z

    Mrs Peroxide fancies herself as Demi Moore, while a question mark hangs over Carla Citrus's evening. . .

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    Waiting-list rise sparks funds plea

    2000-02-24T00:00:00Z

    The largest increase in inpatient waiting lists for more than a year shows the need for greater strategic planning and resources to prevent seasonal overheating, says the NHS Confederation.

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    News focus

    2000-02-24T00:00:00Z

    The Waterhouse report has exposed the failures of local authorities looking after children in care. But the NHS, too, should examine its role in meeting the health needs of this vulnerable group. Lynn Eaton looks at hopes for future partnership

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    Fleet of foot

    2000-02-24T00:00:00Z

    An early retirement culture and dissatisfaction with work have left an increasingly worried government with a staffing vacuum, writes Janet Snell

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    Feeling the pressure

    2000-02-24T00:00:00Z

    Stress in health professionals Psychological and organisational causes and interventions Edited by Jenny Firth-Cozens and Roy L Payne John Wiley & Sons 264 pages £17.99 paperback £39.95 hardback

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    Events

    2000-02-24T00:00:00Z

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    Dundee puts down Wellcome mat

    2000-02-24T00:00:00Z

    This Week

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    Taskforce moves in on 'doubled' overspend

    2000-02-24T00:00:00Z

    The management of troubled Tayside health board came in for fresh criticism this week as a taskforce was sent in to 'deliver an effective financial recovery plan' to turn around a £12m deficit run up by its local acute trust.

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    What's up, docs?

    2000-02-24T00:00:00Z

    The Shipman case sounded the death-knell for the GMC in its current form. But what might replace self-regulation? Kaye McIntosh considers the options

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    Days like this

    2000-02-24T00:00:00Z

    Confidentiality warning. . . No extra powers for CHCs. . . De-recognition of unions put forward as strategy idea. . . 'Inevitability' of trusts. . .

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    Cyberschool days

    2000-02-24T00:00:00Z

    As more and more education providers offer web-based open and distance learning courses, Dolly Chadda looks at the prospects for NHS staff to learn online

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    Give private managers a go, says Cumberlege

    2000-02-24T00:00:00Z

    The NHS should introduce a pilot experiment in which a number of hospitals are taken over by private management teams 'if only to prove the government can do it better', former Conservative health minister Baroness Cumberlege has urged.

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    Crisis, what crisis?

    2000-02-24T00:00:00Z

    The media was determined to get its 'NHS winter crisis', but officially there wasn't one, junior health minister Gisela Stuart told MPs. That didn't entirely get her off the hook, though, Patrick Butler reports