Joanna Lyall
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The wider picture
NEWS FOCUS: The weather conjured up optimism, but European Health Management Association conference delegates in Granada heard a depressingly familiar story of increasing patient expectation and staff shortages.Joanna Lyall reports
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Where are they now?
What motivates people to join the NHS, sometimes taking a 50 per cent pay cut in the process? Five years ago HSJ talked to a group of new entrants about their aspirations. Joanna Lyall finds out how three of them have fared
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Death becomes her
Crime novelist PD James has spent her career writing about murder, but in her autobiography she reflects on her 19 years' work as an NHS administrator, and painful experiences of mental illness in the family. Joanna Lyall reports
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Last of the summer whines?
Now the whole medical profession is alienated. And it's all Tony Blair's fault. Joanna Lyall reports from the BMA's annual conference