All Health Service Journal articles in 1998-12-03 – Page 2
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Deliberate self-harm
If the NHS is to achieve the targets for suicide reduction in The Health of the Nation1 and the green paper Our Healthier Nation, the problems that lead people to harm themselves must be addressed.
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Short cuts Midwives recommend HIV test for pregnant women
The Royal College of Midwives has recommended that all pregnant women should be offered HIV testing and that testing should be recommended in areas where rates of infection are high. The recommendations are made in a leaflet produced with the Department of Health, launched by the RCM and public health ...
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Holidays at risk in millennium staff crisis
Trusts have been urged to consider cancelling leave and asking retiring staff to stay on to cope with the 'unprecedented pressures' of the millennium celebrations.
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More ideas for coping with the millennium crisis.
'Front load' elective activity to the first six months of 1999 to allow for lower levels of planned activity in January 1999 and December 2000.
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Heading to come
For some of us old enough to remember the suppression of the Black report on inequalities in health back in 1980, the publication of former chief medical officer Sir Donald Acheson's son of Black report felt a bit like the arrest of General Pinochet - long overdue revenge on behalf ...
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Dorrell had 'time of stress' over CJD
Former Conservative health secretary Stephen Dorrell told the BSE inquiry this week that he experienced a 'time of stress' during intense media speculation about new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
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Complaints convenors are strictly impartial - despite what CHCs say
Wendy Goodwin and Tracy Steward (Letters, 5 November) would have us believe that the vast bulk of people who resort to the NHS complaints procedures are disillusioned about getting an impartial hearing.
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Fund urges realism on revamped charter
The Patient's Charter is 'flawed and constraining', and the government should consider carefully what it aims to achieve with a replacement, a King's Fund report has concluded.
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Report urges caution on revamped charter
The patient's charter is 'flawed and constraining' and the government should consider carefully what it aims to achieve with a replacement, a King's Fund report has concluded.
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Short cuts Scottish residential care still moving to community
Scottish office statistics published last week show a continued move away from hospital to community-based residential care. The number of places for geriatric assessment and long-stay care, people with learning disabilities, mental health patients and psychogeriatric patients in NHS hospitals decreased by 1,500 in 1997 to 21,000, while the number ...
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IT bug delays continue
A significant proportion of NHS organisations are still behind schedule with their year 2000 computer compliance programmes, according to the latest quarterly report from trusts and health authorities.
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Bridge over troubled waters
Relations between the NHS and the local council in Solihull were difficult - but the borough now has a joint public health director. Laura Donnelly reports
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Head to come This blurb
All leave is hereby cancelled, Territorial Army and Red Cross members are urged to contact their organisations, triage centres are to be set up at known trouble spots, and routine work will be wound down to cope with an anticipated three or fourfold increase in casualties. As the millennium approaches, ...
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Short cuts Widdecombe makes waves over Blair 'turbulence'
Shadow health secretary Ann Widdecombe has accused prime minister Tony Blair of breaking a pre-election promise to managers that Labour would not cause major upheavals in the NHS. In a debate on the Queen's speech, she said the government's health proposals would cause 'top to bottom turbulence in our health ...
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The Road Traffic (NHS Charges) Bill,
The Road Traffic (NHS Charges) Bill, designed to make it easier for hospitals to recover charges for treating road accident victims from insurance companies, has been published. It would also abolish the rarely collected £21.30 emergency treatment fee and replace other levies with a £354 charge for accident and emergency ...
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Therapeutic communities offer a philosophy for those with untreatable behavioural problems
In response to Dr Griffiths' letter on treating personality disorder (12 November), it is all too easy to blame politicians.
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Short cuts Scope backs disablement services authority call
One of the UK's largest disability organisations has backed a disability consortium calling for the government to establish a disablement services authority. Scope has supported a campaign run by emPOWER, which says an authority would 'address significant and expensive variations in the quality and distribution of NHS disablement services', such ...
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'A sad attitude to part-time workers'
Introducing more flexible work arrangements is recognised as an important step to tackle recruitment and retention problems.
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Racist attack leaves GP shaken
Sajal Sengupta is 60 and a GP in Ferndale, Mid Glamorgan. His story is typical of many Asian doctors who arrived in Britain as part of the
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