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Trust chair steps down in row over merger plan
A trust chair has quit in a row over 'supertrust' merger plans. Michael Welsh announced his decision at a Chorley and South Ribble trust board meeting last week.
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Document leak fuels CHC row
A row has erupted between Barnet community health council and North Thames regional office over a memo accidentally issued to local health organisations.
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Lacklustre Maples for the chop?
Westminster gossip has fingered shadow health secretary John Maples as a potential reshuffle victim when William Hague attempts to sharpen up the Conservatives' 'lacklustre' performance in opposition.
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Let the people come
The long-term care royal commission roadshow is on its way, giving commissioners valuable insight into the public's views on service reorganisation. Barbara Millar reports
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The cultivated commissioner
Only exacting recruitment and training will ensure health professionals can make a success of primary care groups, say Darrin Baines and Nigel Couper
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Package deals for the home market
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Mac the knife reveals his operation desert storm
Guy's Hospital legend has it that in the 1970s surgeon Ian McColl, flew out to Libya, trekked on camel-back deep into the desert where, in a nomad's tent, he ministered to the ulcers and bunions of the infamous dictator, Colonel Ghaddafi.
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Mental health organisations disagree on use of suicide as target measure
Consultation on the government's public health green paper closed today with mental health organisations deeply divided over proposals to use suicides as a measure of mental illness.
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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
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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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Failure to thrive
The Journal has seen the government's long awaited new mental health policy. Mark Crail reports
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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.