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    Commissioning must be flexible to achieve targets, research suggests

    1998-02-12T00:00:00Z

    Ministers may have to adopt a more 'flexible' approach to GP commissioning if they want it to deliver all their objectives for the NHS, research suggests.

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    Executive halts ACHCEW legal service tender bids

    1998-02-12T00:00:00Z

    Health officials have abandoned moves to find new lawyers for a national patients' group.

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    Tyne & Wear reveals HAZ potential to save pounds80m

    1998-02-12T00:00:00Z

    Health and local government leaders predict they can squeeze pounds80m a year more out of existing resources under ambitious plans to pilot new models of care in Tyne & Wear.

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    This week

    1998-02-05T00:00:00Z

    Pay-off time: Unison deputy head of health Malcolm Wing and Royal College of Nursing general secretary Christine Hancock, pictured outside the Department of Health's headquarters in Whitehall after receiving news of this year's pay awards for health service staff. See news, page 7.

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    WEB WATCH

    1998-02-05T00:00:00Z

    What with Dobbo riding paramedic motorcycles, and eye-aching yoof- culture videos, the NHS looks set to celebrate its half-century in some technological style. So what better way to show you're bang up to date than to have a web site - complete with 50th birthday cake?

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    Survivors

    1998-02-05T00:00:00Z

    Survivors: health secretary Frank Dobson meets Minnie Hodges, aged 107, during a visit to Moseley Hall Hospital, Birmingham. Mrs Hodges was in hospital after a fall, and was preparing to return home at the time of Mr Dobson's visit. She told reporters afterwards that she believed John Major was Britain's ...

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    STEPPING UP

    1998-02-05T00:00:00Z

    24 February, London

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    Stage struck

    1998-02-05T00:00:00Z

    Doctors can hardly conceal their glee, the unions are furious, and managers have been warned that their pay rises

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    REFERENCES

    1998-02-05T00:00:00Z

    1 The New NHS: modern, dependable. London: The Stationery Office, 1997.

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    REFERENCES

    1998-02-05T00:00:00Z

    1 The New NHS: modern, dependable. The Stationery Office, 1997.

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    There is scope for Powys-like protest

    1998-02-05T00:00:00Z

    There is scope for Powys-like protest in its decision since the project group reports: 'The one trust option is greatly feared in the north of the country' and there is 'cohesive opposition from the local trust, GPs and local councillors'.

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    In person

    1998-02-05T00:00:00Z

    David Black has been appointed medical director of Queen Mary's Sidcup trust, where he has been a consultant physician and geriatrician for the past 10 years. Dr Black was also previously clinical director of the adult medicine directorate and a part-time operations manager at the trust.

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    Take your partners

    1998-02-05T00:00:00Z

    The white paper emphasises collaboration and puts forward a range of proposals. But is there a

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    The woman WHO's taking over

    1998-02-05T00:00:00Z

    The election of Gro Harlem Brundtland as director-general of the World Health Organisation will provide it with a new lease of life and open doors to world leaders.

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    Where are they now?

    1998-02-05T00:00:00Z

    Pocket profile:

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    PROBLEMS NEED SOLVING

    1998-02-05T00:00:00Z

    Further to Lee Whitehead's response (Letters, 15 January) to Michael Howlett (Letters, 27 November), I endorse the view that the 'care continuum' of supported housing should be available in every locality. I also suggest that today's solution is tomorrow's problem: once the housing needs of people suffering mental ill health ...

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    Monitor

    1998-02-05T00:00:00Z

    It's all very embarrassing when you give someone the boot and are then forced to give them their job back. Which must explain why South Thames regional office has insisted on saying that Lady Helen Gardiner has had her appointment as chair of Surrey Ambulance trust 'extended'. 'It's an extension ...

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    MERGING MANAGEMENT WOULD REDUCE WASTE

    1998-02-05T00:00:00Z

    As another ex-nurse, I write in response to N Brown's letter (22 January) about the amount of money spent on chief executives.

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    Key Points

    1998-02-05T00:00:00Z

    The white paper proposals for partnerships in the NHS of the future are much less developed than those for performance.

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    Key Points

    1998-02-05T00:00:00Z

    The white paper proposal to fund primary care groups according to a set formula is beset with difficulties.