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Dear Mel. . .
Our practice has gone completely paperless. When we tried to run our Grand National sweepstake using the computer, all the details got eaten by a virus. What should we do now?
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Watch this space
Kidderminster General Hospital's acute services have been 'sacrificed' to offset health authority and trust deficits, says a damning report on the political hot potato. James Garnett reports
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Out of sight
Action to address the growing problem of female genital mutilation is being hampered by taboos and ignorance, writes Claire Laurent
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Injection of urgency
Are today's 13 to 14-year-olds to enter adulthood unimmunised against tuberculosis because manufacture of the BCG vaccine relies on the whim of the free market? Tash Shifrin reports
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The state we're in - is all really as it seems?
Flu-fuelled winter 'crisis' was a figment of the media's imagination
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Constructing a bright future
Good estate management is a vital building block for modernising the NHS
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Time to stop horsing around
Much has been made of the rise of the 'bidding culture', where developments are allocated funding after competitive bids.Most comment has been negative: why should funds be apportioned on the basis of bidwriting skills? Where does the concept of need fit? Why introduce money this way when there is so ...
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WEB WATCH
You will be pleased to hear that the European Commission has clinical trials in its sites. Among other things, it wants to ensure that people involved in multi-centre trials are not subject to disproportionate risk, and that their treatment is properly assessed by an ethics committee before it gets the ...
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Harried, hounded - Gisela is left to her Owen devices
Iwas rung in advance to be tipped off that NHS waiting-list totals had finally fallen to 100,000 below the level inherited from the Tories and (like last week's HSJ editorial) was amused to notice what little media attention this long-awaited event generated. Nowadays, on-message folk think waiting times, not lists.
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The devil is in the detail
Workforce planning in the NHS has always lacked cohesion and been dominated by sectional interests. Now the government plans a complete overhaul, writes Jeremy Davies