All Health Service Journal articles in 1 September 2008 – Page 2

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    WHO report on suicide prevention

    2008-09-01T14:38:00Z

    Poor countries can considerably improve prevention of repeated attempts at suicide by providing an information session and supportive ongoing counselling, says a new report.

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    Sacked nurse begins claim for unfair dismissal

    2008-09-01T14:31:00Z

    A nurse who was sacked for speaking out about spending cuts takes her case for unfair dismissal to a tribunal today.

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    Pressure group warns on nurse shortage

    2008-09-01T14:25:00Z

    Pressure group Health Emergency warned today that London is facing a looming shortage of qualified nursing staff in key areas, after in emerged that £39m was diverted from the NHS London training budget in 2007-08 to meet a government demand to declare a financial surplus at the end of the ...

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    NICE guidance could revolutionise diabetes care

    2008-09-01T14:16:00Z

    New guidance from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence looks set to revolutionise the way children manage their diabetes by offering greater access to insulin pump therapy, says drugs firm Roche.

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    IT plans 'hopelessly flawed', says shadow health secretary

    2008-09-01T14:01:00Z

    The £12.7bn national IT programme is a 'hopelessly flawed, centrally imposed project that has not been properly thought through from the start and was never subjected to a proper cost benefit analysis,' Liberal Democrat shadow health secretary Norman Lamb has said.He was responding to reports that the NHS is facing ...