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Falklands help
Two NHS trusts will provide support to the Falkland Islands when military services are withdrawn as part of defence restructuring.
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Fallon fallout
The battering meted out to Ashworth Hospital by the Fallon inquiry may have led to other establishments facing tougher regimes, writes Laura Donnelly
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Flu, what a scorcher as Milburn feels the heat
Making my Sunday night HSJ calls, I was sort of delighted to read that Howard Stoate, the Labour GP who sits for Dartford, had stumbled on the same thought that I had. Namely that media disappointment that the millennium bug had not disrupted the world s computer systems transmuted into ...
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Fox floats prescription scheme
Shadow health secretary Dr Liam Fox has unveiled a plan to allow patients whose conditions have not changed to collect repeat prescriptions from a pharmacist without seeing their GP .
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GADFLY
The Terminators shocks were rarely positive or enjoyable, and whether surprise or relief caused Ardent to spill his coffee down his shirt we will probably never know. Tarantino smiled. Oh yes, he'd long been one of Clays most fervent, nay enthusiastic, admirers. Greycoat hadn't liked him but well, things were ...
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The very rough guide
It may be a shadow of its early draft, but the new planning and priorities guidance is maintaining a rapid pace of change, writes Patrick Butler
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Managing mental health services
Open University Press By Amanda Reynolds and Graham Thornicroft 170 pages £16.99
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How was it for you?
Listening to the views of patients was the key to ensuring cancer services were sensitive and appropriate for one trust that surveyed patients and carers. Rosemary Williams reports
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How was it for you?
Greenwich Healthcare trust (London) In accident and emergency it was quite quiet [on new years eve]. At 1 1.55pm there were 36 policemen watching TV and about one patient.
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Just the ticket
Booking systems for hospital admission - to make it as easy as reserving an airline ticket - have improved services for patients and won staff and management approval, the national pilot programme shows. Philp Meredith and coleagues report.
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Man of the match
The post may not be without its problems, but the NHS s new deputy chief executive is widely viewed as an ideal partner for its boss, writes Kaye McIntosh
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Proposed or ongoing mergers
1 Bassetlaw Hospital and Community Services trust and Doncaster Royal Infirmary and Montagu Hospital trust.
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monitor
As the dawn of the 21st century breaks, time for a special investigation into the mysteries of our cyber-web future. You can't stop progress, and Monitor has already done its bit to embrace global technocracy via the pages of the Innovations catalogue. A trawl through planet progress begins - naturally ...
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WEB WATCH
Staff appraisal, proclaimed management guru Tom Peters some time back in the last century, is the number one management problem in the US. 'It takes the average employee (manager or non-manager) six months to recover from it.' Anyone think that doesn't apply to the UK or to what we've seen ...
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Working wounded
A three-year project to tackle staff members health problems meant that one trust had to address organisational and personal conflicts, writes Morag Maddocks
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Extra £90m to ease generic drug costs
The government has performed a partial U-turn in its policy on dealing with the knock-on effects of the spiralling cost of generic drugs.
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Costs of overseas recruitment, 1998-99
Recruitment from Australia costs approximately £3,200 per nurse (where 40 nurses arrive). This includes the air fare of £800, which is paid for by the nurse but reimbursed by the trust if the nurse stays to the end of the contract. The agency fee includes a percentage of the salary.
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Health for some by 2000
Global From 1990 to 1997, the number of countries where life expectancy at birth is over 70 years has risen from 55 to 84; access to safe water has nearly doubled from 40 to 72 per cent; and infant mortality has fallen from 76 per 1,000 live births to 58. ...