All Health Service Journal articles in 1998-07-30 – Page 3

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    Monitor

    1998-07-30T00:00:00Z

    Monitor is concerned for the health of cycling aficionados Lord Hunt, Peter Homa and Bob Abberley. But how to raise it with them (if that's not an unhappy turn of phrase)? The summer issue of One in Ten, the Impotence Association newsletter, arrives with a warning that riding a bicycle ...

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    Take your partners

    1998-07-30T00:00:00Z

    Health action zones have begun to set up partnerships in their local communities. Mark Gould finds out who is doing what

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    Worth preserving?

    1998-07-30T00:00:00Z

    When Wexham Park Hospital (above) was proposed for grade two listing, hospital managers were not the only ones to react with horror. 'Gems or carbuncles?' screamed the Daily Express in February 1996 when the proposed post-war listings were announced: 'Concrete from 60s on list of treasures.' And under a photo ...

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    Protocol progress

    1998-07-30T00:00:00Z

    Littlehay Prison, Cambridgeshire, is one example of good practice. It has had an HIV policy committee for two years, with local clinical nurse specialist and communicable diseases specialist representatives. Chair is Stuart Copping, a senior healthcare officer at the prison. It has drawn up a protocol to ensure that any ...

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    On the record

    1998-07-30T00:00:00Z

    Roger Kline is national secretary (health) for the MSF trade union, which has 65,000 members in the NHS. He is also head of labour relations for the union's community practitioners and health visitors' association.

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    Written off 'Rolls-Royce'

    1998-07-30T00:00:00Z

    In the mid-1980s, Greenwich District Hospital looked as if it had a future. The 1960s building was due to be redeveloped, allowing specialist services to move from neighbouring hospitals. Plans included a tunnel link to new buildings over the road, moving car parking to the roof and reducing reliance on ...

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    WEB WATCH

    1998-07-30T00:00:00Z

    It has probably already become inevitable that the new National Institute for Clinical Excellence will have its own website on which to set out all the good things that people can and should be doing. But what about the Commission for Health Improvement? Will it engage in virtual naming and ...