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On best behaviour
The full force of the Human Rights Act is about to hit health service employers with a sledgehammer. Colin Wright reports
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The three degrees
As the submissions were handed in, health authority senior managers learnt that they can expect a 3. 25 per cent pay rise.
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Germ warfare
Public health professionals need to regain the public confidence lost in the BSE crisis. Claire Laurent reports
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Lassa fever: diagnosis in hours
Developments in molecular diagnostics led to a swift diagnosis of Lassa fever in a 52-year-old British aid worker in March. Treatment has to be within six days of onset if the prognosis is to be good, so speed of diagnosis is vital.
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Give them a medal if they stick to poverty initiative
Preventing 10,000 premature deaths a year is surely an Olympian feat
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NHS can deliver second term
Beware ever-increasing interest in its progress by anxious Blairites
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Social care: the vicious circle
So, the secretary of state didn't really mean it. Social care is ostensibly reprieved from an NHS takeover, even though the Health Act flexibilities are to become compulsory and the threat of care trust status looms for poorly performing social care partners.
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Charlie takes it easy and waits for poll position
I must confess that I was called out of the NHS debate at the Liberal Democrat conference by an MP who wanted to talk about the chances of introducing proportional representation for Westminster elections.
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Taken short: the digital approach
The current shortage of nursing staff willing to take up an NHS contract has firmly shifted the balance of power away from trusts and towards the agencies, contributing to the rapid increase in agency costs since the mid-1990s. But one company claims it can reverse this trend.
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Minus sign
The NHS plan envisages autonomy for primary care trusts and multiagency providers. But is the data available adequate for monitoring whether these agencies are operating according to the plan's principles for providing a public service?