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Monitor
Monitor has been much concerned at the lack of imagination in naming those PFI hospitals. Boring old monikers that tell you stuff about where the hospital can be found, for example. So hats off to Dartford and Gravesham trust, which has boldly decided to call its shiny new flagship the ...
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Equal to the occasion
Health secretary Alan Milburn is keen to assure social services that they are equal partners with the NHS. But he warned that means signing up to a similar strict regime of regulation. Pat Healy reports
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Insurance policy
It's not 'repugnant' privatisation and he doesn't have any himself, but shadow health secretary Dr Liam Fox thinks health insurance is the key to improving health outcomes, as he tells Patrick Butler
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A jab in the dark
How would the NHS cope with a quarter of the population ill or dying from flu? Mark Gould reports on the Department of Health's contingency plan for the next flu pandemic, which experts believe is on its way shortly
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Arts surgery
A new national council aims to promote the use of music, dance, drama and painting in the health service. Laura Donnelly tunes in
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The French connection
While trade relations between Britain and France nose-dived, a meeting of minds on health highlighted much common ground, writes Barbara Millar
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Cross-channel career
David Fraser got involved with Health Rendezvous - chairing this year's conference - because of an interest in French healthcare. Though now chief executive of Dumfries and Galloway primary care trust, he once worked in the French public healthcare system.
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As winter begins to bite so will a newly sceptical media
Managers should beware as Milburn passes on the pressure to deliver
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Take a deep breath and try again
Parliamentary time is needed to put the tobacco ad ban beyond doubt
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Coming down to earth
Expectations have been sky-high ever since the announcement of the mental health national service framework in June 1998, and at last it is published .
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To sum up, Hutton's not a calculating character
Dining in intimidating company the other evening, I found myself seated next to a distinguished medical academic. A man of lifelong Labour persuasion, he was nonetheless fiercely sceptical of the evidence-based approach to NHS drugs policy as represented by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence.