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    In person

    1999-10-21T00:00:00Z

    Dr Helen Matthews, a consultant old age psychiatrist at Western Community Hospital in Southampton, has become medical director of Southampton Community Health Services trust. She takes over from Dr Colin Godber, who has stepped down after three years in post, but will continue to work as a consultant. East London ...

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    Events

    1999-10-21T00:00:00Z

    Items are entered free for public sector, voluntary and professional organisations, but we need at least six weeks' notice of your event. Please send details to Uli Jaeger, HSJ , Greater London House, Hampstead Road, London, NW1 7EJ. Fax: 0171-874 0254.

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    Monitor

    1999-10-21T00:00:00Z

    Monitor is delighted to welcome back Alan Milburn to the fold, and to reassure readers that the alarming, shark-like grimace he affects in so many photos is not intended to be as threatening as it looks. Monitor's sources recall a conversation in which our new lord and master blamed former ...

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    GADFLY

    1999-10-21T00:00:00Z

    An everyday story of trust folk, appearing fortnightly Tarantino goes to the press, while everyone else speculates about the aftermath of the downfall of the terrible two. . .

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    monitor

    1999-10-14T00:00:00Z

    It takes a brave man to twist Dobbo's arm - especially with Joe 'the enforcer' McCrea snapping at your ankles. So did he want to be mayor of London all along? Monitor thinks not, and cites in evidence an exchange between His Dobship and Jonathan Dimbleby on the latter's LWT ...

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    Standard issue

    1999-10-14T00:00:00Z

    The new national service framework for mental health sets out standards without specifying in detail how they should be achieved. Is this a good or bad thing? Laura Donnelly encounters a mixed response

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    Crash, bang, wallop

    1999-10-14T00:00:00Z

    The NHS Primary Care Group Alliance has smashed through the credibility barrier and is now prepared to push its weight around. Mark Crail braved its conference

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    Sly and the family Sloanes

    1999-10-14T00:00:00Z

    Liam Fox's speech to the Conservative Party conference sought to explain the 'Common Sense Revolution' in health policy. Patrick Butler was there

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    Cavity brawls

    1999-10-14T00:00:00Z

    On the eve of a public poll over whether or not to treat Scottish water with fluoride, Barbara Millar revisits the debate over its safety

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    Offensive weapons

    1999-10-14T00:00:00Z

    The killing machines of modern warfare pose a host of ethical and political questions as well as medical ones, as Tash Shifrin observed at a BMA conference

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    As the going gets tough the tough get reshuffled

    1999-10-14T00:00:00Z

    Frank Dobson's Blairite successor will be no easy touch financially

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    Private thoughts, public service

    1999-10-14T00:00:00Z

    Towards the end of the last Conservative government it was a brave NHS manager who openly advocated doing business with the private sector.

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    WEB WATCH

    1999-10-14T00:00:00Z

    A tax on the poor, a tax on stupidity - the National Lottery has been called many things, lots of them uncomplimentary, and particularly so a few minutes after 8pm each Saturday. But with the New Opportunities Fund handing out used fivers by the wheelbarrow-load, could some in the NHS ...

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    NHS beware Tory Foxtrot with a Trojan horse

    1999-10-14T00:00:00Z

    It's hard to concentrate on, say, Tory conference health policy when there is so much distracting noise offstage. All last week in Blackpool we could hear Lady Thatcher, Ken Clarke and Co banging around on the conference fringe like ageing rock stars.