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Who's sorry now?
If Frank Dobson went down badly at the RCN congress, his Tory counterpart did even worse. Lyn Whitfield reports
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monitor
Monitor was intrigued to hear of further changes at the Patients Association. First, general manager Cathy Gritzner cut in half the amount of time she spent there, while rejecting any suggestions of a putsch. Now it emerges she has left the association altogether. She is considering a job offer in ...
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Make the young pay for the old
Thinking the unthinkable is a New Labour buzz phrase, particularly in relation to the welfare state and its flagship, the NHS. But how unthinkable? How courageous are our politicians prepared to be in formulating policy? How much imagination will managers be allowed to show, and health professionals and patients be ...
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Pre-school hearing, speech, language and vision screening
Significant variations in child health screening programmes are undermining the efficacy of the programme, says Mary Turner-Boutle
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Hansard
The government is 'shortly' to publish a consultation document on the future organisation of health and personal social services in Northern Ireland. It will contain proposals for the abolition of the internal market and is likely to herald higher levels of management cost savings than the current target of £2m ...
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Government speeds up on proposed single regional office for London
The government is to speed up the proposed single regional office for London, health secretary Frank Dobson announced this week.
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Northern Ireland HAZs set to get green light
Health action zones and healthy living centres are about to be extended to Northern Ireland.
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Failure to thrive
The Journal has seen the government's long awaited new mental health policy. Mark Crail reports
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Triumph of hope over experience?
The years of trouble in Northern Ireland have given it some of the worst health statistics in Europe. But if the peace agreement succeeds, all that could change. Pat Healy reports from a health and regeneration conference in Belfast
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Greater expectations
Managers & MedicineTreatment advances have greatly increased life expectancy for cystic fibrosis sufferers. But, says Steven Conway, no plans were made for these people and the care system for adults with the disease is in deep crisis