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Back to basics
As PCGs become PCTs, lay members are demanding higher pay. Without it, they say, the only people we'll see serving on these lynchipins of primary care reform are the 'usual suspects'. Claire Laurent reports
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A nation awaits
His appointment may not have captured the public imagination in quite the same way as the England football manager debate, but Nigel Crisp, too, will be judged by results. Ann McGauran and Laura Donnelly report
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Trial and error
A typicals for treating schizophrenia received the thumbs-up at an HSJ debate, but some condemned trials backing their use. Laura Donnelly was there
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Case the joint
Some may still feel uneasy about it, but it's now so fashionable no-one can ignore it. Tash Shifrin explores the under-reported world of joint working
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Gone in a puff of smoke
Health ministers thought they could get a European ban on cigarette advertising by adapting the EU directive on internal markets. They were wrong, but the anti-smoking lobby is not despondent. Tony Sheldon reports
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Greetings to a minister with a minty bit stronger chance
As a career health service manager takes top slot this is an NHS tribute
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Five million people can't be wrong
Health care communication using personality type Patients are different! By Judy Allen and Susan A Brock Routledge 213 pages £12.99 paperback
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Health care provision: Past, present and into the 21st century
By Audrey Leathard Nelson Thornes 351 pages £22.50 paperback
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Oh God, give them strength
What are you feeling, Doctor? Identifying and avoiding defensive patterns in the consultation By John Salinsky and Paul Sackin Radcliffe Medical Press 192 pages £19.95 paperback
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management education
Historically doctors and managers have undergone little joint training, at least until doctors become consultants.
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A question of trust
The NHS plan promises that powers to create new care trusts will be made available to primary care trusts and to local authorities with social services responsibilities.
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Better or worse?
The implications of the NHS plan for partnerships between health and local authorities have largely been assessed in personal social service terms. This perspective is understandable. Before the plan was published the NHS confederation proposed levels 5 and 6 primary care trusts to commission and provide social care the secretary ...
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Mental health 'czar'demands zero suicides on acute wards
National mental health director Professor Louis Appleby has ordered the NHS to take 'immediate action' to meet targets for zero suicides on acute psychiatric wards by the end of March 2002.
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Website to monitor flu outbreaks
An Internet scheme to monitor flu outbreaks and alert hospitals has been launched in the North West region.
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Days like this
A leaked Department of Health memo on the public spending talks has revealed that health secretary Kenneth Clarke has been advised to cut his bid to the Treasury for extra money by £431m, and that he is prepared to lose another £500m.Mr Clarke had originally asked for a £2.76bn increase ...
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PM stands firm over a public NHS
Tony Blair has restated his commitment to a centrally funded health service, pouring cold water on Conservative plans for an expansion of private healthcare and ruling out tax breaks for private policy-holders as a 'deadweight cost'.
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'No need to panic' over who will replace the London region 'hard hitter' says his stand-in
London regional chair Ian Mills says there is 'no need to panic' over the appointment of a permanent successor to the departing Nigel Crisp.
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Crisp takes reins with 'patient centred' vow
The new chief executive of the NHS has laid out his vision of a patient-centred service forged through links with key stakeholders.
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Three tipped for NHS Wales top job against background of 'low salary'
Three Welsh health service managers have been tipped as possible successors to former NHS Wales chief executive Peter Gregory.
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In Brief
The Scottish National Party will put health at the top of its agenda when it announces its latest policy strategy, newly elected leader John Swinney has said. It is thought he wants to publish the SNP's proposals before publication of the modernisation plan for the Scottish NHS, due to be ...