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Crunch issue: the role of the NHS
What part will the NHS have to play in improved access to shopping?
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Out in front
Out in front Just 13 primary care trusts will be launched in the first wave, but guidance only increases speculation over who will control whom.
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Puff daddies
David Hinchliffe was in his usual forthright mood as he faced five of the tobacco industrys biggest players across committee room 15 of the Commons last week.
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Decline and Fall
Decline and fall Despite recruitment drives, figures show the numbers of nurses, midwives and health visitors are still falling. And they're getting older, writes Barbara Millar
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Misconduct proved: 93 axed from register
The UKCC'; professional conduct statistics show that 93 nurses, midwives or health visitors were removed from the register in 1998-99, and a further 34 were cautioned about their conduct.
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Blairs pledge rests soundly on funding through taxation
But many questions remain about when and what extra cash will appear
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Vaccine and not heard
Some claim the shortage of childhood vaccines is due to the drug companies monopoly. The real reason is lack of political priority
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Its a case of Come round to my gaffe
For a bumbling amateur politician, Robert Winston seems to have done remarkably well in persuading Gordon Brown to open his cheque book. Indeed, his performance reminded me of one of those pre-war cartoons by Bateman.
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Room for improvement
Patients treated in good surroundings rate their treatment and staff more highly than those seen in old buidlings. Bryan Lawson and Michael Phiri report
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Design counsel
When I was an art student in the early 1960s, I fell ill with meningitis which developed into ME, and I was admitted to my local hospital for several weeks. The ward was a Nightingale design in a wartime hut and the regime represented excellent care. The responsibility for this ...
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The deals on the bus go round and round
Fifteen trusts co-operated in an imaginative attempt to encourage former NHS nurses to return to work, and the results exceeded organisers expectations. Bernadette Duguid explains