All Health Service Journal articles in 1998-11-19 – Page 3

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    The price of false prophecy

    1998-11-19T00:00:00Z

    'Many cancer trials in recent decades have measured the end joint (the outcome) in terms of additional months or years of life. Trialists have been very reluctant to measure the quality of the additional time.'

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    The price of false prophecy

    1998-11-19T00:00:00Z

    'The cancer industry provides much advocacy and little evidence of cost-effectiveness...

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    'In many ways we are still trying to find our feet'

    1998-11-19T00:00:00Z

    Working in health promotion has given Trevor Lakey some of his biggest highs - but also some of his most devastating lows, 'particularly in terms of the battles you sometimes have to fight to achieve things', he says.

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    To have and to hold

    1998-11-19T00:00:00Z

    Delegates to last week's NHS Primary Care Group Alliance conference expressed their worry that plans to let individual practices keep half of any savings made under PCGs will recreate the inequalities of fundholding. Kaye McIntosh reports

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    Manager's merger lawsuit raises 'wider issues'

    1998-11-19T00:00:00Z

    The First Division Association has raised concerns about the treatment of managers involved in trust mergers after taking legal action on behalf of a former Welsh ambulance trust officer.

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    monitor

    1998-11-19T00:00:00Z

    More this week on secret plans for PCGs (that's the patient consultative groups revealed here last week). As you will recall, all patients are to be grouped into PCGs of roughly 500 people each. Our secret source reveals that practice budgets will be devolved to each PCG, whose duties will ...

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    Onus points

    1998-11-19T00:00:00Z

    clinical governance

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    Shift workers

    1998-11-19T00:00:00Z

    clinical governance

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    In tune with the times

    1998-11-19T00:00:00Z

    With health promotion high on the national agenda specialists find themselves in a positive stategic environment although much will depends on creative resource allocation. Barbara Millar looks at their expanding role

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    In tune with the times

    1998-11-19T00:00:00Z

    Name: Trevor Lakey

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    Worldwide wisdom

    1998-11-19T00:00:00Z

    information management