Health Service Journal
2004-01-08

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5 FOR YOUR IN TRAY

Published: 08/01/2004, Volume II4, No. 5886 Page 21
Accenture and CSC win patient records contracts

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all our yesterdays

Looking back at the week's top stories - as reported by HSJ and its predecessor titles
Ambulance trust gains star boost

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Behind the screens

BOOKS ETC
Blood work

Letters
BMA attacks clinical priority 'infringement'

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Cancer czar expresses target doubts

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CAREER DEVELOPMENT: MY UNUSUAL JOB

Tracey-Jayne Watson, founder, East Midlands Ambulance Service staff support network
CHI move discredits stars

Letters
Consistent argument

Letters
Credit due

in person new year honours
Device trade

intellectual property
Discharge fines split directors

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Do tariffs stack up?

finance
Doctor wins record damages for visa snub

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Easy-to-swallow solution

Specifically trained nurses can aid early detection of dysphagia, say Mary Heritage and Holly Froud
Ever ready

clinical management where medicine meets management
Fine tuning

news focus - delayed discharge
Foreign patients face 2007 primary care tab

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Form precept

Letters
Guidance to tackle high cost of suspensions

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Health secretary thanks staff in new year message

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Illuminate the debate

PUBLIC HEALTH IDEAS
in brief

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Journey's end for health 'tourism'may be case of mistaken identity

POLITICS
NI consultants back contract

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Payback time

news focus
PMS contract sees 'dual' dawn

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Practice options for patient choice

the columnist
Public service

Letters
Questions need answers

comment: The recalculation of the 2002 star-ratings remains a mystery
Quiet revolution gathers pace

Comment: Delayed discharge penalties are already giving impetus to joint working
Ratings 'discredited' by indicator cha ange

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Reid re-defines four-hour A&E targets

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Reid to answer HSJ star-ratings revelations

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Set sights on falls

Letters
speak out

Letters
TIN it to win it

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WHAT IS? DERBY UNIVERSITY NHS UNIT

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what works

Matthew Cole On public health
Work together on job plans, Foster tells PCTs

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2004-01-08