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Hidden talents
You have spent six years training in medicine, then get a reasonable job. You work hard for a number of years, then suddenly your world is turned upside down. There is a revolution and you are forced to work for the rebels, treating the injured. You escape, but fear for ...
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Fraudbusters making 'substantial' progress
Health authorities are making 'substantial progress' in beating contractor fraud, according to a survey by the Health- care Financial Management Association.
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Northern Ireland at risk from fraud
Northern Ireland could be losing millions of pounds a year through fraud in primary care, a report from the Northern Ireland Audit Office has concluded.
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Farewell to internal market folly Did it really exist? And has it gone for good?
It preoccupied the NHS's 1 million staff for years on end. It provoked heated debate among the public - and their implacable suspicion - on a scale rivalled only by the poll tax. Now it's consigned to the dustbin of history it appears not to have had much impact on ...
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Euro health policy will target poor
A new European-wide health policy, setting targets for reducing health inequalities between east and west and rich and poor, was due to be ratified by health ministers in Copenhagen this week.
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Scottish GPs demand more say in reforms
GPs have called for a bigger say in the government's reform of the Scottish health service.
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UCLH in court victory over Unison strike
One of London's largest trusts has won a last-ditch court battle to avert strike action planned for next week.
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Stroke resource pack puts condition on map
Could I congratulate HSJ on two excellent articles on stroke and especially 'Pressure Point' by Carol Cooper (Managers & Medicine, 27 August). She really hits the nail on the head. For too long stroke has been the Cinderella condition. The Stroke Association is pushing for better services for patients, and ...
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HA launches community-wide network pilot
Kingston and Richmond health authority this month launches one of the first of the community-wide network pilots promised by The New NHS white paper.
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In charge - with consensus
Consensus management is emerging as a model for primary care groups. This dangerous trend must be stopped.
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CHCs' unique role gives patients a voice at grassroots level without challenging others' contribution
Ian Semmons (Letters, 3 September) is mistaken if he believes that community health council members owe allegiance to any voluntary organisation or local authority. The virtue of CHCs is their independence, which is jealously guarded. But there is really no need for CHCs and the Patients Association to feel they ...
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Catching the drift
Plans for an additional 7,000 doctors and 15,000 nurses could be jeopardised by the continuing trend for working abroad among UK graduates and the shortfall in overseas medical staff coming here. Clare Jinks and colleagues argue that the role of continent
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Calman questions screening needs
Chief medical officer Sir Kenneth Calman used his final annual report to question the value of some of the 100 screening programmes in place across the NHS.
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Dobson gives green light to pooled budgets but merger ruled out entirely
Health and social services authorities will be able to pool budgets under proposals set out this week in the government's promised consultation document on joint working.
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In brief
Prime minister Tony Blair has been urged to support global rules controlling tobacco marketing in the forthcoming white paper on smoking. The call comes from the World Development Movement campaign, which is trying to stop tobacco companies 'aggressively marketing' products in the third world to replace sales lost in developed ...
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Demand for boards and trusts to share list cuts
Health board general managers and trust chief executives will be expected to 'sign up' to their share of the Scottish waiting list cuts target.