All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-06-01
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WEB WATCH
You will be pleased to hear that the European Commission has clinical trials in its sites. Among other things, it wants to ensure that people involved in multi-centre trials are not subject to disproportionate risk, and that their treatment is properly assessed by an ethics committee before it gets the ...
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Spreading the word
The POPPi Guide Practicalities of producing patient information By Mark Duman and Christine Farrell The King's Fund 120 pages £10.99
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Watch this space
Kidderminster General Hospital's acute services have been 'sacrificed' to offset health authority and trust deficits, says a damning report on the political hot potato. James Garnett reports
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in person
Anne Walker has been appointed chief executive of Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Ambulance and Paramedic Service trust. She was previously director of commissioning (acute services) at West Herts health authority, although more recently she was acting chief executive of West Herts HA.
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Out of sight
Action to address the growing problem of female genital mutilation is being hampered by taboos and ignorance, writes Claire Laurent
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The wealth of nations
Exploring health policy development in Europe Edited by A Ritsatakis, R Barnes, E Dekker, P Harrington, S Kokko and P Makara. World Health Organisation Regional Publications, European series, No. 86 537 pages £80Distributed by the Stationery Office
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Number of people on Welsh lists rises substantially
Welsh waiting lists have risen again. Figures for April, released last week, show the number of people waiting for inpatient and day-case treatment rose by 800 over the month, to 80,603.Of these, 6 per cent - 4,593 - had been waiting for more than 18 months. Outpatient waiting lists also ...
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Injection of urgency
Are today's 13 to 14-year-olds to enter adulthood unimmunised against tuberculosis because manufacture of the BCG vaccine relies on the whim of the free market? Tash Shifrin reports
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Turning up the heat
Proposals from an expert group on critical care are already looking ahead to the service demands of next winter. And there's money available, too. Kaye McIntosh reports
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Sexual health and HIV plans to merge
Public health minister Yvette Cooper has announced that the long-delayed national HIV/AIDS strategy will be merged with the government's sexual health strategy.
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NHS workforce planning: the future
A Health Service of All the Talents proposes the following structure:
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The new funds
The government is to increase funding for the treatment and care of people with HIV and AIDS by more than 13 per cent.
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Nuffield Trust wants framework for genetic issues
Concerns that the revolution in medical genetics will be too costly for the NHS have been voiced in a report from the Nuffield Trust that also calls for a new regulatory framework for dealing with genetic technology issues and public education. Report co-author Dr Ron Zimmern said human genetics would ...
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Researcher says DoH figures are 'misleading'
Department of Health waiting lists are 'unrepresentative, invalid and misleading', a health services researcher has claimed. Dr Paul Armstrong, senior lecturer in health services research at East London University, has investigated figures showing the percentage of people treated within different lengths of time. He says the quoted percentages are based ...
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Harried, hounded - Gisela is left to her Owen devices
Iwas rung in advance to be tipped off that NHS waiting-list totals had finally fallen to 100,000 below the level inherited from the Tories and (like last week's HSJ editorial) was amused to notice what little media attention this long-awaited event generated. Nowadays, on-message folk think waiting times, not lists.