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    THE FUTURE WILL TEST HA COMMUNICATIONS

    1998-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    Trust in the community

    1998-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Management support is crucial to the success of primary care groups. Heather Sim suggests how to bring everyone on board

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    Primary concerns

    1998-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Academics are warning that the shift to primary care groups is fraught with dangers. Mark Crail reports

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    Conduct unbecoming

    1998-05-21T00:00:00Z

    opinion

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    'Confusion' follows Dobson directive to redesign planned psychiatric unit

    1998-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Mental health campaigners accused the government last week of creating policy confusion in a row over mixed-sex wards.

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    Court out

    1998-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Criminal negligence cases cost the NHS more than £200m last year and the health secretary is determined to tackle the problem. Jo Carlowe reports

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    It's not a letter of credit

    1998-05-21T00:00:00Z

    At a stroke, health secretary Frank Dobson has removed the right of trusts to determine the pay and rations of their top teams.

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    Dobson spends on 'rebuttal officer' as waiting lists soar

    1998-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Health ministers have come under attack for spending thousands of pounds on a unit to defend government policy as waiting lists head for another record high.

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    Dobson gives go-ahead to regional shake-up

    1998-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Health secretary Frank Dobson gave the go-ahead this week for a shake-up of NHS regions in London and the south of England.

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    Don't stop praying

    1998-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Rarely has mental health been more in the political eye; rarely has there been greater potential to improve mental health services.

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    events

    1998-05-21T00:00:00Z

    INTERVIEWING TECHNIQUES

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    Spend more on services for severely mentally ill, experts tell ministers

    1998-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Ministers must spend more on developing mental health services, targeting severely mentally ill people in deprived urban areas for intensive help, leading professionals urged this week.

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    The human factor

    1998-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Trusts and HAs may not have the capacity to cope with the new human resources strategy. Mark Crail reports

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    monitor

    1998-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Now, this really must be the new, collaborative NHS in action. Barnet health authority chair Antony Jacobson is supporting his local community health council in a bid to recover £5,000 legal costs from the Department of Health. These were incurred. . .

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    Perfect specimen

    1998-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Botanist David Bellamy with Jessica Oxley (left) and Kathryn Bonner at Thackray Medical Museum, Leeds, where he opened a new gallery. It will house a collection of 600 earthenware drug jars which lined the shelves of pharmacies 200-300 years ago. The jars were used to boost an apothecary's status in ...

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    in person

    1998-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Rob Larkman (above) has been appointed chief executive of Camden and Islington Community Health Services trust. Mr Larkman has worked for the trust since its creation in 1993, initially as finance director and more recently as resources director.

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    politics

    1998-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Gosh, they don't miss a trick, these medical folk, do they? Did you notice that, no sooner had we all heard about Viagra, the new anti-impotence drug, than the Internet was reporting that what was described as 'a herbal rip-off' was being touted as an 'analog' with no side effects ...

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    Tiles R Us

    1998-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Mary Ward and Wayne Robins illustrate their memories of Ely Hospital in Cardiff.