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Dobson stalls on proposal for free long-term care
A general welcome for the report of the Royal Commission on Long- Term Care quickly turned to concern this week when the government made it clear that early action was not likely.
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Settling in: the portfolio career
As chair of South Western and then South and West regional health authority at the height of the market reforms of the early 1990s, Rennie Fritchie was popular and admired as the liberal, caring (and only female) face of the NHS policy board.
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Insurance pooling: a cautionary tale
Municipal Mutual Insurance is often referred to in public sector finance circles as a lesson in the dangers of insurance pooling. The company stopped trading in September 1992 after the intervention of the Department of Trade and Industry, which was worried about the level of Municipal Mutual's reserves. The company ...
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How to be a Mohel: training and examinations in the theory and practice of Jewish circumcision
I was interested in your article 'One for the boys' (pages 26-27, 21 January) about NHS clinics for circumcision.
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Is the tail wagging the dog when it comes to planning patterns of service delivery for the future?
How big should hospitals be? Different reports have produced different answers. And because new hospitals have been built with little or no regard to their conclusions, the NHS continues to boast a capital stock with wide differences in size and variety.
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WEB WATCH MARK CRAIL
The millennium approaches, and our thoughts lightly turn to computer failures. So it is good of the London Ambulance Service to be so free with information about what happens when an emergency service's information technology systems crash, as its own did in 1992.
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Days like these
National bargaining on way out... warning over GPs' contracts... Dobson's PR demand... White paper gagging claims... Fears over Guy's
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Sir William Macpherson's definition of institutional racism
'The collective failure of an organisation to provide an appropriate and professional service to people because of their colour, culture or ethnic origin. It can be seen or detected in processes, attitudes and behaviour which amount to discrimination through unwitting prejudice, ignorance, thoughtlessness and racial stereotyping.'