All Health Service Journal articles in 1999-10-21
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WEB WATCH
So you want to undertake a systematic review of discharge planning to find out what really works. But how do you know someone else isn't already doing the same thing? In fact, they are: details are on the National Research Register along with information about 42,000 other research projects of ...
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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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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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Staff views on old-age services are 'negative'
Front-line staff working with older people would not like to rely on the services they provide in their own old age, King's Fund research has found.
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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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Yule remember HA's message
Cambridgeshire health authority is planning to send out 300,000 Christmas cards bearing such seasonal messages as how to cook safely, cope with a hangover and decide whether to call out an ambulance.
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Kids' stuff
Children watch as a section of a new nursery arrives at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel.
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Hear here
visitor Mrs Blake has a hearing test during an open afternoon at Royal Hampshire County Hospital's audiology department. Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare trust audiology services manager Helen Martin said the event was organised as part of deaf awareness week to' provide an opportunity to see what we do and increase ...
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I've started so I'll finish
He's back. The architect of the New NHS, Alan Milburn, steps into Frank Dobson's shoes as health secretary just as pressure to deliver on pledges mounts. Patrick Butler reports
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Schizophrenia patients face denial of new drug treatments
People with schizophrenia could be denied modern drugs as a first-line treatment under controversial draft guidelines commissioned by the Department of Health.
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Milburn summit delays heart strategy
Health secretary Alan Milburn has ordered a sharper focus on cutting waiting times for heart disease and cancer patients, but insists that he is not abandoning the government's commitment to hitting its general election waiting-list pledge.
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Pay deal 'is key to keeping nurses in NHS'
Nurses need a 'substantial' pay rise if the NHS is to retain the experienced staff needed to carry out the government's modernisation programme, the Royal College of Nursing said this week.
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Days like this
HAs demand emergency cash. . . Clarke hints at cash deal. . .Complaints system slammed. . . Private hospital 'would hit NHS recruitment'. . .
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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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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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Super Cooper
A rising star, with a political CV to kill for and a very New Labour marriage, Yvette Cooper has the perfect background for Blair's ministerial team. But the public health remit may not be easy, writes Mark Crail