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A world of experience
NHS managers who break their careers to work abroad benefit enormously but may experience problems on their return - and find that employers are less enthusiastic. Barbara Millar reports
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Mental health experts greet merger plans with scepticism
Guidance fleshing out plans to merge Britain's high-security hospitals with NHS trusts will do little to tackle 'entrenched problems' of recruitment, size and morale, according to mental health experts.
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Managers warn on PCT funding
Managers have warned that funding to smooth the development of primary care trusts must be pledged in the next batch of guidance on the reforms, due out later this month.
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Hard graft
Patients with end-stage renal failure may be overjoyed to receive a donor kidney - but it is only the start of the battle to prevent rejection and keep the patient well. Jenny Bryan looks at drug treatments that can help
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'People power' halts PFI projects
Local campaign groups have claimed that the failure of two major hospital projects to win private finance initiative approval as a victory for 'people power'.
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Health inequalities inquiry to regather
Sir Donald Acheson has announced plans to call the members of his inquiry into health inequalities back together in the wake of an official response to his report last week.
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Here's looking at you
Primary care groups and other players in the new NHS should be watched carefully, the community health councils' annual conference heard. Pat Healy reports
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Medical staff slate hospital's management
Doctors at a psychiatric hospital in Cumbria have claimed that services are being seriously damaged by mismanagement.
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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
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Sugar refiner
A landmark study shows that the life-threatening complications of the most common form of diabetes can be substantially reduced by more intensive management of existing treatments. But what are the cost and service implications for the NHS? Rhonda Siddall