All Health Service Journal articles in 1998-10-15 – Page 4

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    Poll shows over-55s miss out on hearing tests

    1998-10-15T00:00:00Z

    A MORI poll for the Royal National Institute for Deaf People has found that only 22 per cent of people aged 55 and over have had a hearing test in the past 10 years, compared with 87 per cent who had taken an eye test. RNID chief executive James Strachan ...

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    SHOs from overseas number 38 per cent

    1998-10-15T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    NHS scoops £2m for treatment of drugs misuse

    1998-10-15T00:00:00Z

    The Scottish Office has announced an extra £5m to tackle drugs-related crime and increase the availability of treatment for drug misusers. The NHS will receive £2m for treatment programmes. Other measures include a £700,000 national drug prevention team, plans for increased multi-agency working and a Health Education Board drive against ...

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    15 October 1948

    1998-10-15T00:00:00Z

    The divorce between hospitals and the authorities concerned with public and social medicine has already been noticed and deplored. The issue now is to organise practical means of bridging the gap. There is great opportunity for closely integrating local authorities' preventive, after-care and social medicine services within the structure of ...