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A member of the Drains Faculty asks, what's so special about being a doctor?
Are public health doctors a waste of money? Readers reply to columnist Alan Maynard
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Joint account
When public sector accountants gathered for their annual conference, they complained of initiative overload. Seamus Ward was there
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Trust ready for millennium accounting
Severn trust is to implement the Geac SmartStream financials system, in a £100,000 contract to make its accounting department Year 2000 ready.
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Activists gatecrash director job interview
Mental health service users claim to have gatecrashed a job interview for the director of a new organisation spearheading partnership with social services.
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Mental health shake-up after violence and drugs incidents
Birmingham health authority has agreed to spend £350,000 reorganising mental health wards at a local psychiatric hospital after incidents of violence and drug- taking by patients.
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No agreement on HR as PCT deadline nears
Managers and trade unions are concerned that agreement will not be reached on key human resources issues affecting primary care trusts by 1 July, when the first applications for PCT status can be made.
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'Hatchet woman' of days gone by is appointed to trust board
One of the most controversial figures from the era of the Conservative NHS reforms has staged a surprise comeback by winning a seat on a trust board.
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Asthma pilot begins
North London's Whittington teaching hospital is piloting an Internet- based monitoring system for severe asthma patients, in a pan-European experiment funded by the European Commission.
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Avon calling
Putting a health improvement programme in place demands consultation with a huge range of organisations. Linda Ewles reports on how the second largest HA in the country set about it
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Health Bill moves forward as Lords back down
The Health Bill's passage through Parliament took another step forward last week when the House of Lords backed away from confrontation with the Commons and agreed a swathe of MPs' amendments.
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Fox puts the party back in Tory Widdecombe's replacement will surely bring light relief to health politics
In a week when fans of colourful politics are mourning the death of Screaming Lord Sutch, similarly minded observers of health politics have cause both for sadness and celebration.
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Doubts grow over Bart's rescue as PCG issues funds warning
Doubts about the feasibility of 'saving' London's Bart's Hospital as a specialist cardiac and cancer centre are growing less than 18 months after the high-profile decision was made.
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Health Bill comes through battered but unbowed
The government maintained its determined refusal to accept any amendments to the Health Bill from the opposition parties as it completed its report stage and passed to the Lords last week.
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A look at public health skills in today's varied settings would be better
Are public health doctors a waste of money? Readers reply to columnist Alan Maynard
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Plan for new medical school binned
The government has come under sharp criticism for refusing to create a new stand-alone medical school to help boost the number of trainee doctors' places by 1,000.
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A brush with boogie
New shadow health secretary Liam Fox is sure to make a colourful contribution to William Hague's re-shuffled front bench.
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Bristol staff 'undermined' for raising concerns, inquiry told
Bristol Royal Infirmary staff worked in an atmosphere of fear that 'pervaded every aspect of the organisation', a senior manager has claimed.
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Cards on the tables
Despite some major data flaws, the launch of clinical indicator tables was welcomed by many - but will they be acted upon? Lyn Whitfield reports
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Open and shut case
Acute mental care consumes two-thirds of all mental health resources. But if there were alternative services for inpatients who no longer need intensive support, costs could be halved, suggest Christina Moore and Judith Wolf
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Let's have a closer look at the role of those expensive trust and HA chairs
Are public health doctors a waste of money? Readers reply to columnist Alan Maynard