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CHC attacks HA over cuts report
Patient representatives have hit out at a cash-strapped health authority for spending £48,000 on a report from management consultants proposing radical service changes.
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Identity crises
Imposters posing as nurses or other professionals put patients at risk, but trusts have a poor record of checking job applicants' registrations. Pat Healy reports
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The unequal struggle
Tessa Jowell still has doubts about setting targets on health inequalities, as she told a Manchester conference. Mark Crail joined her on a trip to the North-West frontier
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Don't tell a soul
IT staff will have their work cut out tightening up patient confidentiality measures. Peter Mitchell reports
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This time it's for real
Joint working has been on the health policy agenda for decades. Now, at last, it is being put into practice. Barbara Millar reports
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Cruel illusions of progress
The reception given to the government's public health strategy green paper has, in marked contrast to The New NHS white paper, been rather muted. Perhaps things would have been different if, as originally intended, the green paper had preceded the white. As it is, the NHS agenda has assumed supremacy. ...
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The chance we've been waiting for
Last week the government announced a £500m Budget increase aimed at cutting NHS waiting lists to below 1.16 million by April 1999. Both prime minister Tony Blair and health secretary Frank Dobson have made clear this is the NHS's highest priority for the coming year.