All Health Service Journal articles in 1999-07-15 – Page 2
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Mental health experts greet merger plans with scepticism
Guidance fleshing out plans to merge Britain's high-security hospitals with NHS trusts will do little to tackle 'entrenched problems' of recruitment, size and morale, according to mental health experts.
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A world of experience
NHS managers who break their careers to work abroad benefit enormously but may experience problems on their return - and find that employers are less enthusiastic. Barbara Millar reports
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Injunction win for suspended doctor
A doctor has won a court injunction against a trust which suspended him after he carried out an unauthorised audit of cancer screening results.
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Days like this
MORI poll finds huge majority against trust plan. . . Reforms compromise rumoured. . . Labour councils urge managers' trust boycott. . .
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Watching expiry dates
The public health white paper sets out ambitious targets for reducing deaths by 2010. Mark Crail canvassed responses to it and found widespread scepticism that it would reduce health inequalities
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Cutting deaths from head injury
A major international trial has been launched to determine whether the delivery of corticosteroids shortly after head injury can reduce deaths and disability after accidents.
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Short Cuts: GMC widens doctor revalidation programme
The General Medical Council has launched a consultation exercise as part of its programme to develop a system for the revalidation of all registered doctors. Four groups involving a wide range of health organisations have been set up to look at junior doctors, GPs, specialists and public health doctors. Anybody ...
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Short Cuts: Poor people more likely to suffer mental illness
A study of mental illness in Glasgow has found a strong link with poverty. The Greater Glasgow health board study says poorer people are almost three times as likely to commit suicide and six times as likely to be committed to hospital for schizophrenia as people from more affluent areas.
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Counsel homes
Housebound patients offered home-based counselling services by a primary care team have reduced their need for other services. Paul Gurney explains
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Missing the connection
Clinical evidence is being undermined by inadequate access to the Internet and by poor training. Barbara Millar reports
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Dentists hold clients 'to ransom'
Dentists who accept children as NHS patients only if their parents register as private patients are to be 'named and shamed' by the Association of Community Health Councils for England and Wales.
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Short Cuts: Call to end uncertainty over long-term elderly care
The Continuing Care Conference has urged the government to act to end the 'uncertainty' faced by many older people over their long-term care in its response to the report of the Royal Commission on Long-term Care of the Elderly. CCC, a coalition of commercial, charitable and public service organisations, says ...
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Witness defends BRI's former chief
The management style of former United Bristol Healthcare trust chief executive Dr John Roylance has been defended at the Bristol Royal Infirmary Inquiry.
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Bring me sunshine
Prime minister Tony Blair and health secretary Frank Dobson tour Queen Elizabeth Hospital, under construction in Woolwich, south-east London. The visit coincided with government approval for a third wave of major NHS private finance initiative schemes (see left) and Mr Blair's attack on the British Medical Association's opposition to PFI ...
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