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    Get the picture?

    1999-03-25T00:00:00Z

    Get the picture? motorcycle paramedic Andy Whatling puts a new lapel-mounted camera through its paces. The camera relays pictures to other system users via a belt-mounted computer.

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    GADFLY

    1999-03-25T00:00:00Z

    An everyday tale of trust folk, appearing fortnightly

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    Grappling with the F-word

    1999-03-25T00:00:00Z

    news focus

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    Pregnant with expectations

    1999-03-25T00:00:00Z

    opinion

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    Events

    1999-03-25T00:00:00Z

    Items are entered free for public sector, voluntary and professional organisations, but we need at least six weeks' notice of your event. Please send details to Uli Jaeger, HSJ, Greater London House, Hampstead Road, London, NW1 7EJ. Fax: 0171-874 0254.

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    HA slims down to fund PCGs

    1999-03-25T00:00:00Z

    A health authority is to disband its commissioning department to fund primary care groups.

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    A year down the line

    1999-03-25T00:00:00Z

    By the end of the year, 60 per cent of the population will be covered by the nurse-led telephone helpline NHS Direct. But doubts remain about whether it really helps cut visits to doctors or accident and emergency departments. Janet Snell reports

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    Staff-side divisions scupper pay talks

    1999-03-25T00:00:00Z

    The much-trumpeted opening of talks on the government's proposed pay system for the NHS ended in shambles last week, with no agreed statement or date for further talks.

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    Welcome for report despite 'soundbite' summary

    1999-03-25T00:00:00Z

    Managers have welcomed an independent report into Glasgow's Victoria Infirmary while criticising its summary as 'couched in soundbites'.

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    Talks shambles kicks new pay system into touch But protracted delay runs risk of fuelling unrealistic expectations

    1999-03-25T00:00:00Z

    There would appear to be little chance now of a new pay system for the NHS during the lifetime of the present parliament. It is true to say that even The New NHS white paper talks about restoring a national pay system only as a 'longer-term' objective, but last week's ...

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    Patient's death was suicide, says jury

    1999-03-25T00:00:00Z

    A jury returned a suicide verdict last week at the end of an inquest into the death of Kevin Olley, 26, a patient at Lister Hospital, Stevenage, in April 1998.

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    'Sheer unadulterated misery': life - and death - in the Russian Federation

    1999-03-25T00:00:00Z

    If Frank Dobson provided the up-beat message, Richard Alderslade, regional adviser for partnerships in health at the World Health Organisation European regional office, came up with the gloom. He focused attention on the state of public health in the newly independent states of the Russian Federation where the average man ...

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    Days like this

    1999-03-25T00:00:00Z

    Internal market attacked as 'Maoist', 'eccentric', 'poorly managed'... true cost of white paper... waiting lists grow

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    WEB WATCH MARK CRAIL

    1999-03-25T00:00:00Z

    If you drink, smoke, take drugs or otherwise muck around with your health and are not prepared to give up those bad habits, you would be advised not to fall ill in Andover.

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    Should we not congratulate Straw?

    1999-03-25T00:00:00Z

    The civil liberties response to Jack Straw's announcement has forgotten that for decades we have been sectioning mentally ill people who have not committed any offences. The NHS used to treat psychopathic disorder in a similar way, as evidenced by figures produced by Mr Straw after Michael Stone's trial.

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    Common target

    1999-03-25T00:00:00Z

    The Amsterdam treaty ensures 'health protection' in all policy areas. After bringing down the Commission, MEPs want to go further, reports Tony Sheldon

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    OT to trot - keeping in step with clients' needs

    1999-03-25T00:00:00Z

    I read with interest, Annie Phillips' article 'Out of step' (page 25, 25 February). I agree wholeheartedly that social workers do work in an empowering way, but to say this was 'virtually unheard of in medicine' takes no account of healthcare professionals who do work with clients in an empowering ...

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    Chemistry lessons

    1999-03-25T00:00:00Z

    primary care groups