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    CAN SCOTLAND GO ALL THE WAY?

    1998-01-29T00:00:00Z

    Who said Scotland couldn't win the World Cup under a Labour government? (Comment, 15 January).

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    All our Yesterdays

    1998-01-29T00:00:00Z

    30 January 1948

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    Jowell ministers to European agenda

    1998-01-29T00:00:00Z

    Public health minister Tessa Jowell has outlined plans for taking forward Europe-wide public health issues as part of the UK's six-month presidency of the European Union.

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    Unions are united against attempt to phase pay rises

    1998-01-29T00:00:00Z

    Health unions this week presented a united front against rumours that the government may phase this year's pay awards to keep public spending within limits set by the previous Conservative government.

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    BY ALAN MAYNARD Happy days are here again

    1998-01-29T00:00:00Z

    'Many GPs seem to see the white paper as a triumph of primary care over the rest of the NHS and the creation of a new nirvana for them. Sorry comrades - this is the beginning of the management of primary care within a cash-limited budget'

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    350 complaints a day under new procedure

    1998-01-29T00:00:00Z

    The NHS is receiving more than 350 written complaints a day, government statistics have shown.

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    LONDON'S 24-HOUR HELPLINE IS OLD NEWS IN OLDHAM

    1998-01-29T00:00:00Z

    You stated that a London health authority is using pounds195,000 of winter pressures money to launch what might be the first 24-hour nurse- led helpline to direct patients from casualty wards (News, page 6, 15 January).

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    Ambulance forum tackles year 2000 problem

    1998-01-29T00:00:00Z

    An Ambulance Service forum is being established to tackle the year 2000 IT problem, which one chief executive has estimated could cost pounds1m per trust to solve.

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    Box 2. Contents of literature assessment

    1998-01-29T00:00:00Z

    Writing style: questions about the way the information is written - for example, print size and layout.

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    HA's pounds4.3m cuts will tackle pounds7.2m debt

    1998-01-29T00:00:00Z

    A health authority has agreed a pounds4.3m package of cuts to tackle a pounds7.2m deficit next year. South Essex HA hopes the remaining pounds2.9m deficit can be closed through further efficiency savings.

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    1948 and all that

    1998-01-29T00:00:00Z

    Managers, doctors, nurses, unions, patients - you couldn't get a white paper cover between their leaders when they got together to give the NHS 50th anniversary celebrations their official send-off. An incredulous Mark Crail joined in the fun

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    University cries foul in pounds12m tender

    1998-01-29T00:00:00Z

    A university has threatened legal action against the NHS Executive after losing a pounds12m nurse education contract.

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    VOL 108 NO 5589 THURSDAY 29 JANUARY 1998

    1998-01-29T00:00:00Z

    SUBSCRIPTION DEPARTMENT ONLY

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    This week

    1998-01-22T00:00:00Z

    'Drugs czar' Keith Hellawell holds up a new drugs guide for 14- 16-year-olds during a press call at Haverstock school, London. Mr Hellawell, UK anti-drugs co-ordinator, said The Score: facts about drugs was designed to combat 'the huge amount of misinformation and myths' circulating among young people. The Health Education ...

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    WEB WATCH

    1998-01-22T00:00:00Z

    Our Victorian ancestors were obsessed with public health. But then, few things concentrate the mind quite as much as the prospect of regular and deadly outbreaks of contagious disease. And unlike the health scares of the 1990s, those of the 1830s and 1840s were particularly real in nature.

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    TELEMEDICINE

    1998-01-22T00:00:00Z

    5 February, Manchester

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    REFERENCES

    1998-01-22T00:00:00Z

    1 Ooi R. The Guardian, 2 July 1997.

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    REFERENCES

    1998-01-22T00:00:00Z

    1 The New NHS: modern, dependable. The Stationery Office, 1997.

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    REFERENCES

    1998-01-22T00:00:00Z

    1 Adshead H, Nelson H, Gooderally V, Gollogly P. Guidelines for successful relocation. Nursing Standard 1995; 5: 32-35.

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    In person

    1998-01-22T00:00:00Z

    Parkside Health trust has appointed Michael Attwood (above) operations director with responsibility for services in Brent. He joins from Pathfinder trust, where he was manager of specialist mental health services.