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Commission impossible
Yet another significant NHS date is looming. On 1 April the first primary care trusts will go live, many combining the responsibility of commissioning around 80 per cent of the local NHS budget with delivering a range of community services.
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WEB WATCH
What do doctors get up to when no-one's looking? What do they wear beneath their trousers? It is in fearless search of the answers to these questions and more that Webwatch sets off this week for the darkest regions of Doctors.net.uk - a closed community for those initiated into the ...
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A patient address on code-breaking and LSD
I was surfing the web at my own sedate pace in search of wisdom about the beta interferon debate when the newspapers hit the mat on Monday morning. Usually I take their front pages in my stride.
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Wanted: feet to fill big shoes
Any structural shake-ups following Sir Alan Langlands' departure must get to grips with how the centre relates to local service providers, writes Stephen Thornton
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That was then. . .
The evolution of British general practice 18501948 By Anne Digby Oxford University Press 376 pages £48
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Childbearing witness
Race and childbirth By Savita Katbamna Open University Press 157 pages £18. 99 paperback
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Mind over a difficult matter
Practising evidence-based mental health By John Geddes, Andre Tomlin and Jonathan Price Edited by Sharon E Straus Radcliffe Medical Press 264 pages £30
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Winter of discontent thawed by promise of massive funds
Chancellor Gordon Brown's Budget was the government's first chance to respond with hard cash to three months of bad headlines about the NHS - and growing pressure to fund healthcare through private insurance.
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'No strings attached' funding plea
Health service managers issued a last minute pre-Budget plea to a government 'hooked on targets' to inject the NHS with 'cash without strings'.
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'Ethically wrong' to shift cigarette duties to NHS
Public health experts have condemned chancellor Gordon Brown's move to divert money from cigarette duties directly to the NHS as 'ethically wrong'.
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Budget's billions will push modernisation
Prime minister Tony Blair was yesterday due to announce a 'step change' in the government's modernisation of the NHS in the wake of chancellor Gordon Brown's decision to invest billions of pounds in the service.