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More apple pie?
Conference 'overwhelmingly' passed Labour's new health policy, which had been pieced together from two years of consultation managed by the party's health policy forum.
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A bug's life
Forget year 2000 compliance. What you should be worrying about is year 2000 computer viruses - both real and hoax. Michael Cross reports
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Home truths
Away from the Conservative conference at Blackpool, the town's homeless people are being offered help at a community trust roadshow. Tash Shifrin reports
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Who said that?
Pharmaceutical firms are aligning themselves with patient groups in a bid to put pressure on the NHS. But will such a move empower or exploit the public, asks Barbara Millar
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A marriage made in. . . Southport
After a long courtship, the IHSM and the AMGP sealed the knot last week amid scenes of faded seaside glamour. Laura Donnelly wonders how long it will be before Relate's services are required
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Running out of puff
The UK government and medical establishment have been warned they will face flak if they do not consult more widely on public health targets, reports Peter Pallot
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Relenza provides baptism of fire for fledgling institute
But NICE must reassure patients that it acts in their interests, too
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Age of the long goodbye
There is one certainty in life: as life is a terminal sexually transmitted disease, we will all die.
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WEB WATCH
Are health action zones really at the cutting edge of public health as ministers intend? Or have they, as a leading Blairite think-tanker recently suggested, degenerated into test-beds for daft ideas dreamed up by civil servants and imposed on local people with the aid of endless central directives, rules and ...
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A feather in his cap as His Dobship turns again
Despite persistent conference rumours in Bournemouth, I was completely wrong-footed by Frank Dobson's change of heart over the London mayor's job. I was not alone. The night before it emerged in the Sunday Telegraph , Jack Straw said on Radio 4's Any Questions that Nick Raynsford, the minister who had ...
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The odd couple
The chair-chief executive relationship is at the apex of a health authority or trust. Effective joint working by the two is widely seen as a prerequisite for effective board working and more general organisational effectiveness. Conversely, tension or poor working relationships can be detrimental to the performance of the board, ...