All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-01-27
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As if people mattered
A useful, wide-ranging, reference book, the emphasis here is on involvement in planning and improving standards of services. It will be especially useful in primary care.
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Growing pains
Life-expectancy for people with cystic fibrosis has doubled in the past 20 years, and there are now almost as many adults with the disease as children. The best results are achieved when CF patients are managed in specialised centres.
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Global warning
The flu epidemic has sparked concerns about how the health service would cope with a pandemic - and one may be imminent. Wendy Moore reports
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Getting the hump with HImPs
Most HAs are failing to prioritise the needs of children and young people in health improvement programmes, despite some good initiatives. Angela Underdown and Carol Sexty report on a nationwide survey
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Just good friends
It takes a certain sort of person to become an NHS board member: someone who cares passionately about the health service, someone who knows their local community and, ideally , someone who has some experience of picking their way through a political minefield.
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Have I got news for flu
The National Institute for Clinical Excellences decision to reject the new flu treatment Relenza is a move the drug companies are not taking lying down.
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Plans for Welsh taskforce under fire
Plans for a taskforce to look at NHS pressures in Wales look set to be revised in the wake of criticism from opposition parties.
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Funny money: figuring it out
With UK expenditure on health at 6.7 per cent of gross domestic product the consensus is that the Treasury will have to find £12bn over the next five years to match the EU average health spend of 8 per cent of GDP .
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Profile Fanatic who is pro-life and soul of the party
Maverick Conservative right-winger Ann Wintertons luck in winning first place in the recent private member's ballot allows her to lead a fresh charge on prevention of euthanasia - one of several medical ethics bees that have buzzed round her bonnet during her 17-year parliamentary career .
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The famous five
Tony Blair's bold talk in a TV interview of a 5 per cent spending increase for the NHS sparked much debate as to what he really meant. Patrick Butler sifts through the evidence
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GPs at the sharp end
Meningococcal meningitis deserves its sinister reputation. At the dawn of the 21st century , here we still are at the mercy of a bacterium able to invade the bloodstream and damage vital organs with devastating speed. Even with prompt diagnosis and expert treatment, the mortality rate is around 10 per ...
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Study doubts MS drug
Money would be better spent on alternative ways of improving quality of life in people with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis than on the drug beta interferon, according to research conducted in Scotland.
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Dissenting voices
Over the millennium celebration period the NHS Direct service in west London had a team of up to 30 nurses answering more than 1,800 calls a day.
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Heart disease on the increase
Smoking, drinking and poor diet are driving up levels of cardiovascular disease after recent falls in episodes of stroke and ischaemic heart disease.