All articles by BY MARK CRAIL – Page 2

  • News

    WEB WATCH

    1998-08-06T00:00:00Z

    Somewhere out there in cyberspace, someone shares your interest in the early history of health economics, the research possibilities inherent in The New NHS, or whatever it is that turns you on. Indeed, the ether is probably buzzing already with fellow enthusiasts sharing ideas. But how to find them?

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    WEB WATCH

    1998-07-30T00:00:00Z

    It has probably already become inevitable that the new National Institute for Clinical Excellence will have its own website on which to set out all the good things that people can and should be doing. But what about the Commission for Health Improvement? Will it engage in virtual naming and ...

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    WEB WATCH

    1998-06-25T00:00:00Z

    How do you see the world evolving by 2020? Will we find ourselves in a fragmented society in which we have to find our own way and science is just one voice among competing world views. Or will the nation state reassert itself, and with it individual reliance on those ...

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    WEB WATCH

    1998-06-18T00:00:00Z

    There are times when the Institute of Management gives a good impression of suggesting that if you're not running a FT-SE 100 company then you are not really managing. Its last annual management pay survey reported rises of 10 per cent for directors due to 'business growth'. Eat your heart ...

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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 ...

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    Primary care group money fails to quell fears as GPs deliver ultimatum

    1998-05-14T00:00:00Z

    Ministers last week pledged a pounds22m boost for the new primary care groups but failed to allay doctors' fears about the way the changes are being managed.

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    Mental health groups accuse Labour of going back on election promises

    1998-05-07T00:00:00Z

    Mental health groups reacted with dismay this week to the government's asyet still-secret plans for a shift in policy on community care backed by £50m a year investment in NHS mental health services.

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    £500m for mental health in effort to 'protect public'

    1998-04-30T00:00:00Z

    JOURNAL EXCLUSIVE

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    Expert tells GPs to recruit high-paid chiefs for PCGs

    1998-03-05T00:00:00Z

    GPs must recruit high-paid, high-powered chief executives to run primary care groups or watch them founder, a top health policy analyst warned last week.