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    Steely determination: why ministers are resolved to make modernisation work

    1998-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Ministers have a 'steely determination' to make the NHS IM&T strategy succeed, its author, Frank Burns, said this week.

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    NHS dentistry up a gum tree

    1998-09-24T00:00:00Z

    We are living in a country where people travel 300 miles for dental care

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    Waiting list data plan rejected

    1998-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Categories for referral to a consultant:

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    Short cuts

    1998-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Vote on new management organisation

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    New TUC president is former COHSE leader and ex-nurse

    1998-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Hector MacKenzie, a qualified nurse and former leader of COHSE, has become president of the Trades Union Congress.

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    Changing paces

    1998-09-24T00:00:00Z

    HUMAN RESOURCES

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    Special cases

    1998-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Omagh health visitors have doubled their workloads to support people affected physically and mentally by the recent bomb explosion. And they will keep going as long as necessary, they tell Pat Healy

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    Career File

    1998-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Name: Helen Munro

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    The bruvvers are on the road to a good recovery

    1998-09-24T00:00:00Z

    POLITICS MICHAEL WHITE

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    Facing both ways at once

    1998-09-24T00:00:00Z

    The unions are opposed to PFI, but are also resigned to government enthusiasm for it. At Blackpool, the TUC resolved to fight to protect members from its 'perverse effects'. Patrick Butler listened in

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    To boldly go...

    1998-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Are the World Health Organisation's 21 Health For All European targets a Utopian dream for the 21st century? Wendy Moore talks to those who dare to believe they can be achieved

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    The Big Grapple

    1998-09-24T00:00:00Z

    It may be the world's richest city, but its huge homeless population lacks basic healthcare, and health workers struggle to cope with drug misuse, psychiatric illness, disease and an unforgiving political culture. Kate Adams reports on living and dying in

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    'We must get stronger at becoming facilitators of change'

    1998-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Helen Munro jokes that she first learnt negotiating skills in 1976 when she was doing voluntary work in Nigeria for a medical missionary organisation and a would-be suitor attempted to exchange her for a herd of cattle and some sheep.

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    No beauty in the eyes of Northwick's users

    1998-09-24T00:00:00Z

    John Weeks (Letters, 10 September) does indeed have a subjective view of Northwick Park Hospital. He seems to confuse good functional design with attraction.

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    Capital's health 'needs pan-London approach'

    1998-09-24T00:00:00Z

    The most comprehensive review ever attempted of public health in London has revealed stark variations in health and service provision between health authorities.

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    Annual 'waves' of 'five or six' PFI projects set to get go-ahead

    1998-09-24T00:00:00Z

    NHS finance director Colin Reeves has predicted that 'five or six' large private finance initiative projects are likely to be given the go- ahead each year.

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    Welsh trust consultation closes in face of local anger

    1998-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Public consultation on plans to halve the number of trusts in Wales has closed with a whistle-stop tour of areas opposed to the changes by Welsh health minister Jon Owen Jones.

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    Emergency ambulance services still poor, says Audit Commission

    1998-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Ambulance trusts which hit national targets are still offering a 'persistently poor' service to some people, says an Audit Commission study published today.

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    IHSM members need to know the truth about its troubled finances

    1998-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Recent correspondence on the subject of the Institute of Health Services Management has prompted me to go back over this summer's reporting of news from the institute in HSJ, now the institute's only source of regular media profile.

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    WEB WATCH

    1998-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Lightning may strike at any time. Capable of travelling almost horizontally for up to 10 kilometres from the storm cloud in which it originated, a thunderbolt may appear to come out of a clear blue sky, long before the storm rolls into view. The faster and