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Special cases
Omagh health visitors have doubled their workloads to support people affected physically and mentally by the recent bomb explosion. And they will keep going as long as necessary, they tell Pat Healy
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Facing both ways at once
The unions are opposed to PFI, but are also resigned to government enthusiasm for it. At Blackpool, the TUC resolved to fight to protect members from its 'perverse effects'. Patrick Butler listened in
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To boldly go...
Are the World Health Organisation's 21 Health For All European targets a Utopian dream for the 21st century? Wendy Moore talks to those who dare to believe they can be achieved
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The Big Grapple
It may be the world's richest city, but its huge homeless population lacks basic healthcare, and health workers struggle to cope with drug misuse, psychiatric illness, disease and an unforgiving political culture. Kate Adams reports on living and dying in
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'We must get stronger at becoming facilitators of change'
Helen Munro jokes that she first learnt negotiating skills in 1976 when she was doing voluntary work in Nigeria for a medical missionary organisation and a would-be suitor attempted to exchange her for a herd of cattle and some sheep.
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No beauty in the eyes of Northwick's users
John Weeks (Letters, 10 September) does indeed have a subjective view of Northwick Park Hospital. He seems to confuse good functional design with attraction.
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Capital's health 'needs pan-London approach'
The most comprehensive review ever attempted of public health in London has revealed stark variations in health and service provision between health authorities.
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Annual 'waves' of 'five or six' PFI projects set to get go-ahead
NHS finance director Colin Reeves has predicted that 'five or six' large private finance initiative projects are likely to be given the go- ahead each year.
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Welsh trust consultation closes in face of local anger
Public consultation on plans to halve the number of trusts in Wales has closed with a whistle-stop tour of areas opposed to the changes by Welsh health minister Jon Owen Jones.
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Emergency ambulance services still poor, says Audit Commission
Ambulance trusts which hit national targets are still offering a 'persistently poor' service to some people, says an Audit Commission study published today.
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IHSM members need to know the truth about its troubled finances
Recent correspondence on the subject of the Institute of Health Services Management has prompted me to go back over this summer's reporting of news from the institute in HSJ, now the institute's only source of regular media profile.
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Take a walk on the wild side
Does a trade union background help prepare you for management? As the TUC meets this week in Blackpool, managers who were once activists talk to Patrick Butler
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Super idea puts paid to talks
Managers are miffed that they were not forewarned about the government's 'nurse consultants' plan, and are wondering how it will affect the already complicated pay discussions.