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EVALUATING HEALTH INTERVENTIONS An introduction to evaluation of health treatments, services, policies and organisational interventions By John 0vretveit Open University Press 324 pages pounds55/pound
There is increasing emphasis on the need to evaluate what we do and to ensure we do it in the most effective or cost-effective ways. Evidence- based healthcare has focused principally on clinical (especially medical) activities. But the way healthcare is organised, financed and managed may well have as much ...
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11th-hour attempts to save HIV/AIDS centre
Last-ditch attempts to save a purpose-built centre for people with HIV and AIDS from being sold were being mounted this week.
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19 March 1948
The National Association of Administrators of Local Government Establishments has circulated a memo on the NHS Act and draft National Assistance Bill, which make provision for the 'sick' and 'normally healthy aged', leaving a residue which will be the responsibility of local authorities. This consists of the following classes:
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pounds500m cash boost brings total to pounds2bn
Chancellor Gordon Brown this week announced a pounds500m budget boost for the NHS and said it brought Labour's extra investment in health to around pounds2bn since coming to power.
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Managers' leaders welcome pounds500m but warn of longer-term problems
Managers' leaders greeted the extra pounds500m for the NHS as a vital 'first instalment' that would help them to tackle long-term waiting list problems.
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Academic to replace Sir Duncan as head of HSMU
Former NHS chief executive Professor Sir Duncan Nichol is stepping down as director of a high-profile health services management unit - to be replaced by a more 'neutral' academic.
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Headline to come after cartoon in position BY MICHAEL WHITE
By now, you've seen the colour of the chancellor's NHS money, heard all about Welfare to Work initiatives in the service, even seen pre-Budget photos of Uncle Gordon playing with the kids. Someone else's kids to be sure (dammit, it's still someone else's upbeat economy too: Ken Clarke's), but they're ...
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...AND WHILE IT'S A STRUGGLE AGAINST NOTIONS OF 'PROPER' WRITING...
Hilary Spiers poses an important question: why can those working in the NHS not use simple English? Over the past few years I have taught about 400 effective writing courses in various parts of the health service, and I am constantly having to fight the notion that anyone who uses ...
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HA appoints public health director at last
A health authority without a public health director since 1995 has at last made an appointment.
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ORGANISING WORK TO KEEP STRESS AT BAY
Sue Parkyn-Smith of the Health and Safety Executive is right when she says ('Taking the strain', Special Report, 29 January) that it is how an organisation manages and how it uses staff - 'not too many or too few demands' - that have significant effects on stress and health at ...
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...THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES FOR TRUSTS TO RESEARCH BETTER COMMUNICATION
Your articles on communication and Jane Beenstock's feature ('In the clear', page 32, 12 February) are a timely reminder of the importance of this issue. There is far too little published work in this area.
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THERE IS A WAY BETWEEN DISTRICT GENERAL AND COTTAGE HOSPITAL...
I was interested to see the article on Kent and Canterbury Hospital (News, page 7, 26 February). Across the UK there are many proposals for reconfiguring acute services, and local communities are understandably concerned about the potential loss of their district general hospital. There are, however, successful and proven ways ...
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Beyond a smoke
Raising tobacco tax may deter smoking but it's not as simple as that. Mark Crail reports on a Budget dilemma
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Beyond a smoke
Raising tobacco tax may deter smoking but it's not as simple as that. Mark Crail reports on a Budget dilemma
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Member of 'Yorkshiregate' board to chair supertrust
A former Labour councillor and member of a regional health authority board which was collectively criticised by MPs over management failures has been appointed chair of the new pounds440m Leeds 'supertrust'.
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Professional bodies praise moves to tackle poverty and ill health
The Association of Public Health welcomed the introduction of the working families tax credit, guaranteeing a minimum income for low-paid families, and the increase in child benefit by pounds2.50 a week .
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IN BRIEF
The British Dental Association has condemned South Essex health authority's plan to cut pounds350,000 from its pounds1.3m community dental services budget. The HA argues that 10,000-12,000 children can be transferred to ordinary dentists, but the BDA claims most were referred to the CDS by family dentists or will be unable ...