All Health Service Journal articles in 1998-05-07
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JUNE McKERROW has been director of the Mental Health Foundation since 1992. She previously worked for 25 years in housing and homelessness, most recently at Stonham establishing community-based alternatives to institutional living for people with special needs.
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Target practice
Though recognising their health-promotion role, even GPs in one fairly affluent area are unsure of how to work across agencies to meet targets, reveals a survey by Thoreya Swage and Judi Linney
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POPULATION PROJECTIONS
Predicting demographic change is a tricky business. The one thing certain, says John Appleby, is that people will live longer and this will have a considerable impact on healthcare costs
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Talking points
Good communications are crucial if the NHS is to meet government goals of forging links with other agencies. Yet many trusts or health authorities have no communications staff - and where they do have, they usually work alone
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Turf wars at the grass roots
As work gathers pace to develop primary care groups, tribalism is rife, says health minister Alan Milburn, who talks to Peter Davies
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Nursing goes out to tender
A health authority is to put a town's community nursing service out to tender despite claims by the current provider that it will cost managers £2.2m to shift the £6m contract.
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Getting into a pickle over a red herring
Ann Dix fails to find a champagne drip at Damien Hirst's restaurant
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Trafford General Hospital
Prime minister Tony Blair at Trafford General Hospital, which as Park Hospital was the site from which Aneurin Bevan launched the NHS 50 years ago. The hospital keeps an extensive archive from the period and is still in contact with many of the original patients and staff.
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Looking into the future
Dr Hywel Lloyd demonstrates equipment from Telediab, a project that uses eye examinations to check for signs of diabetes, at the Wales telemedicine conference in Cardiff.
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Managers are 'national force' says Milburn
Health minister Alan Milburn wants to see 'a new sense of self-confidence' among NHS managers.
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Double duty in mental health
'Health minister Paul Boateng faces a dilemma in attempting to balance the first duty of mental health services to their users and the public protection which any government must ensure'