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Co-operative society
Out-of-hours care has begun to involve not just doctors but the whole primary healthcare team. Jeremy Dale and Chris Salisbury argue that services need to change even more - but how?
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Social climbers
How effective are links between primary care groups and social services? Bob Hudson and Helen Lewis report on a national survey
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The young ones
For our occasional profiles of professionals in contrasting roles, Alison Moore meets two people promoting young people's health - one in a prison, the other an adviser on sexual health with a health authority
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In person
Dr Helen Matthews, a consultant old age psychiatrist at Western Community Hospital in Southampton, has become medical director of Southampton Community Health Services trust. She takes over from Dr Colin Godber, who has stepped down after three years in post, but will continue to work as a consultant. East London ...
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Monitor
Monitor is delighted to welcome back Alan Milburn to the fold, and to reassure readers that the alarming, shark-like grimace he affects in so many photos is not intended to be as threatening as it looks. Monitor's sources recall a conversation in which our new lord and master blamed former ...
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A dance to the music of time
The detox unit at Holloway women’s prison is offering dance therapy to women trying to withdraw from hard drugs or alcohol addiction. Lucy Goodison and Helen Schafer explain
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Standard issue
The new national service framework for mental health sets out standards without specifying in detail how they should be achieved. Is this a good or bad thing? Laura Donnelly encounters a mixed response
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Crash, bang, wallop
The NHS Primary Care Group Alliance has smashed through the credibility barrier and is now prepared to push its weight around. Mark Crail braved its conference
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Sly and the family Sloanes
Liam Fox's speech to the Conservative Party conference sought to explain the 'Common Sense Revolution' in health policy. Patrick Butler was there
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Cavity brawls
On the eve of a public poll over whether or not to treat Scottish water with fluoride, Barbara Millar revisits the debate over its safety
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Offensive weapons
The killing machines of modern warfare pose a host of ethical and political questions as well as medical ones, as Tash Shifrin observed at a BMA conference
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As the going gets tough the tough get reshuffled
Frank Dobson's Blairite successor will be no easy touch financially
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Private thoughts, public service
Towards the end of the last Conservative government it was a brave NHS manager who openly advocated doing business with the private sector.
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WEB WATCH
A tax on the poor, a tax on stupidity - the National Lottery has been called many things, lots of them uncomplimentary, and particularly so a few minutes after 8pm each Saturday. But with the New Opportunities Fund handing out used fivers by the wheelbarrow-load, could some in the NHS ...
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NHS beware Tory Foxtrot with a Trojan horse
It's hard to concentrate on, say, Tory conference health policy when there is so much distracting noise offstage. All last week in Blackpool we could hear Lady Thatcher, Ken Clarke and Co banging around on the conference fringe like ageing rock stars.