All Health Service Journal articles in 1998-06-11 – Page 4

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    Tender is the plight

    1998-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Dudley health authority's move to sell community nursing to the highest bidder ended in resignations and retreat. Pat Healy reports

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    Ready for take-off

    1998-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Comprehensive studies of primary care pilot schemes could provide ministers with justification for their reforms, writes Barbara Millar

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    Rough road of reforms

    1998-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Competition and planning in the NHS

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    Skeleton service

    1998-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Chelsea and Westminster Hospital gave local people a chance to see the NHS in action last weekend. Here, eight-year- old Nicholas Harrington finds out more about plaster casts from technician Mariano Martinez-Tenorio. Nicholas's sister Laura and father David lend a hand with staff nurse Alberta Awotwi.

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    Strip tease

    1998-06-11T00:00:00Z

    days before England's first World Cup encounter, researchers from the Royal Free Hospital, London, and Bradford Royal Infirmary have reported that the thin weave of the official England team shirts offers little protection against harmful ultra-violet rays. Consultant dermatologist Andrew Wright, holding England striker Alan Shearer's number 9 shirt, says ...

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    WEB WATCH

    1998-06-11T00:00:00Z

    If you want to live beyond 100, your best bet may be to live past your mid-eighties. Obvious perhaps, but researchers in the US say their studies of centenarians suggest that there is a 'weeding out' process of the 'sick old' before their 90th birthday: those who survive it just ...