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Disturbing news reaches Monitor this week of a possible alien invasion in the West Midlands. Marking the retirement after 42 years in the NHS of Cathy Matthews, director of nursing for the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital trust in Birmingham, chief executive Neil Taylor told her colleagues at the leaving do: 'She ...
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Prescribing Postcodes are alive and well - unlike patients
Dr Maggie Harding (letters, 12 August) does a disservice to women with ovarian cancer. She draws attention to the June Effective Health Care Bulletin on the management of gynaecological cancers, which recommends that Paclitaxel and Carboplatin should be the treatment of choice for this disease. Yet she congratulates health authorities ...
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A PCT by any other name?
opinion: WALKING TALL: 'The personal medical services idea began to feel like an idiosyncratic worm inside the corporate apple, run by mavericks - usually GPs - who wanted nothing to do with the emerging models of communitarianism'