All Health Service Journal articles in 1998-12-17

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    WEB WATCH

    1998-12-17T00:00:00Z

    Kim Dang went under the surgeon's knife last Wednesday. It was a routine cosmetic procedure. And it was broadcast in real time on the Internet.

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    In a spin

    1998-12-17T00:00:00Z

    Critics say the new mental health strategy fails to tackle the staffing crisis or caseload size and is wrong on the 'public safety' issue. Laura Donnelly reports

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    On the record

    1998-12-17T00:00:00Z

    What is the first thing you do when you arrive at work?

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    Nurse, the screens

    1998-12-17T00:00:00Z

    The latest films could soon be showing at a hospital near you under a scheme to bring the silver screen into the health service. Barbara Millar asks what managers would recommend

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    news

    1998-12-17T00:00:00Z

    in brief

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    Testing out a new set of teeth

    1998-12-17T00:00:00Z

    'PCGs will want to be sure the means to achieve quality and value for money exist, otherwise many will say they have lost their old teeth and the new set don't bite'

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    monitor

    1998-12-17T00:00:00Z

    Monitor was most impressed by the way the private Grovelands Priory Hospital dealt with our dear friend Augusto Pinochet. After all, not every bed blocker gets a blue-light London ambulance to take them home. But it did make Monitor wonder whether a similar facility was on offer to others in ...

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    millennium planning

    1998-12-17T00:00:00Z

    Expecting the unexpected: 'Major incidents are easy.'

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    The strategy's main points

    1998-12-17T00:00:00Z

    'Several hundred' new places in psychiatric wards.

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    Why resource 'winners' are really on to a loser

    1998-12-17T00:00:00Z

    In the irony of resource allocation, apparent 'winners' can be seen in a different perspective to be 'losers'. The News Focus, 'Last seen heading north', (19 November) may deserve to be renamed 'advantage stays in the south'.

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    It's a wrap

    1998-12-17T00:00:00Z

    news focus

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    How was it for you?

    1998-12-17T00:00:00Z

    January

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    Survey results: homelessness and ill-health

    1998-12-17T00:00:00Z

    59 per cent of Big Issue vendors surveyed reported 'a long-term illness, health problem or handicap' limiting their daily activities or work. Of these, 31 per cent believed their problem to be drug-related.

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    Mayor 'should be strong on health'

    1998-12-17T00:00:00Z

    The King's Fund has called for London's new mayor to be given a much stronger role in promoting health.

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    hansard

    1998-12-17T00:00:00Z

    A cross-party group of MPs has asked the government to establish a National Forum for Maternity Care to draw up a national maternity care strategy in the UK. Audrey

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    Prescribing a touch of interdiscipline for GPs

    1998-12-17T00:00:00Z

    Parliamentary attacks on the medical establishment are not rare these days. But few have the insight to berate the profession for its scientific ignorance as Ian Gibson, Labour MP for Norwich North and resident Commons medical science whizz, has done.

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    Fraud inquiry trust sets up hotline

    1998-12-17T00:00:00Z

    A trust at the centre of a police fraud investigation has set up a confidential phoneline so staff can voice concerns to external auditors.

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    By George, your knowledge of the UK is flagging

    1998-12-17T00:00:00Z

    With reference to your front cover (26 November), the UK minus Scotland and Wales does not leave England with the union flag, but with a St George's cross.

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    Head for figures

    1998-12-17T00:00:00Z

    Visitors to the body zone at the Dome will be able to explore the inside of a giant sculpture of two people embracing (see computer-generated image, left). The reclining figures - of indeterminate sex - will contain images and music focusing on the body. Outside will be an exploration area ...

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    Projected feelings

    1998-12-17T00:00:00Z

    Karen Caines, director, Institute of Health Services Management