All Health Service Journal articles in 1998-05-21 – Page 3

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    events

    1998-05-21T00:00:00Z

    INTERVIEWING TECHNIQUES

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    Spend more on services for severely mentally ill, experts tell ministers

    1998-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Ministers must spend more on developing mental health services, targeting severely mentally ill people in deprived urban areas for intensive help, leading professionals urged this week.

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    The human factor

    1998-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Trusts and HAs may not have the capacity to cope with the new human resources strategy. Mark Crail reports

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    monitor

    1998-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Now, this really must be the new, collaborative NHS in action. Barnet health authority chair Antony Jacobson is supporting his local community health council in a bid to recover £5,000 legal costs from the Department of Health. These were incurred. . .

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    Perfect specimen

    1998-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Botanist David Bellamy with Jessica Oxley (left) and Kathryn Bonner at Thackray Medical Museum, Leeds, where he opened a new gallery. It will house a collection of 600 earthenware drug jars which lined the shelves of pharmacies 200-300 years ago. The jars were used to boost an apothecary's status in ...

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    in person

    1998-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Rob Larkman (above) has been appointed chief executive of Camden and Islington Community Health Services trust. Mr Larkman has worked for the trust since its creation in 1993, initially as finance director and more recently as resources director.

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    politics

    1998-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Gosh, they don't miss a trick, these medical folk, do they? Did you notice that, no sooner had we all heard about Viagra, the new anti-impotence drug, than the Internet was reporting that what was described as 'a herbal rip-off' was being touted as an 'analog' with no side effects ...

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    Tiles R Us

    1998-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Mary Ward and Wayne Robins illustrate their memories of Ely Hospital in Cardiff.

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    on the record

    1998-05-21T00:00:00Z

    JANE KEEP is special projects adviser at the NHS Confederation and a fellow of Birmingham University's health services management centre. She has worked in the NHS for 18 years, including in acute units in Oxford and Bristol and at a nurse education college in Birmingham.

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    Slow-acting remedy

    1998-05-21T00:00:00Z

    A survey of community trusts found little movement towards evidence-based practice and considerable ignorance of the research and development strategy. Kimmy Eldridge and Nigel South report

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    US and them

    1998-05-21T00:00:00Z

    With the US pharmaceutical giants targeting the elusive UK market, the issue of whether drug companies should be able to advertise their wares direct to the public is more pertinent than ever. Caroline White reports

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    WEB WATCH

    1998-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Chief medical officers tend to be remembered, if they are remembered, for some concrete achievement. In the case of Sir Kenneth Calman, who retires later this year, either the Calman-Hines cancer framework or even his work on improving the lot of the junior doctor would be a fitting testament.