All Health Service Journal articles in 1999-07-29
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Short Cuts: Half of Britain's wealth held by richest 10 per cent
Inequalities in wealth in Britain are 'extreme', with 10 per cent of the population owning half of all wealth, according to a report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. It shows that young, single people and lone parents have little wealth, but half of all households in Britain have savings, pensions ...
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Cash injection for Welsh NHS includes £5m in capital funding
Extra cash has been found for the NHS in Wales, including a small amount for capital investment.
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2000 throws up PR nightmares
Tales of millennium revellers 'vomiting to death' make 'bad PR', a year 2000 communications workshop heard last week.
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Short Cuts: Academic appointed to lead sexual health strategy
Public health minister Tessa Jowell has announced that Michael Adler, professor of genitourinary medicine/sexually transmitted diseases at Royal Free and University College Medical School, will lead the development of a sexual health strategy for England. The strategy, announced in March, will aim to improve access to services, spread good practice, ...
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Short Cuts: UKCC prepares ethnicity survey across register
The UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting is preparing to issue forms to all 637,000 people on its register, asking them about their ethnic origin in an attempt to compile a comprehensive picture of the ethnic breakdown of its professions across the UK. The exercise has been ...
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Balancing act
Campaigners are launching a CD-ROM and website to help the media provide more balanced coverage of mental health issues. Laura Donnelly reports
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Dobson dithers as RCN acts on long-term care
The government is unlikely to issue its response to the Royal Commission on Long-Term Care before the autumn - and may only issue an 'early response' then, health secretary Frank Dobson said last week.
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Deficit grows after finance chief quits
A London trust that saw the abrupt departure of its finance director at the end of May has admitted that it is facing much 'worse than anticipated' financial problems.
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Short Cuts: Hutton agrees East Yorks community trust merger
Junior health minister John Hutton has approved the merger of two community and mental health trusts in East Yorkshire. East Yorkshire Community trust and Hull and Holderness Community trust will combine on 1 October to form Hull and East Riding Community Health trust. The decision follows an earlier move to ...
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Security review for all three special hospitals
The government has announced a review of security at all three special hospitals as part of its response to the Fallon inquiry into Ashworth Special Hospital's personality disorder unit.
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Pally at the Ally
Teenies' delight Richard Blackwood put some rare glamour into health management at a HImP launch. Kaye McIntosh looked on in disbelief
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In Brief: Almost one in three pregnant women smokes
Almost one in three pregnant women smokes, and the number has shown no sign of falling for eight years, according to research for the Health Education Authority to coincide with the government's 'No Tar! Mum' campaign, launched on Tuesday. The HEA says it is vital for health professionals to raise ...
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'There's such a push for creativity, it's almost frightening'
Janet Snell canvassed opinion on how chief executives see their new roles progressing
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Ambulance dispute taken to Assembly
Former chief ambulance officer John Beecher, who won more than £200,000 in an out of court settlement from Welsh Ambulance Services trust last week, is planning to raise issues about his case with the Welsh Assembly.
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Heart surgery audit hit by lack of resources as units drop out
Ten cardiac units which failed to take part in 'the first comprehensive audit of heart surgery' have blamed lack of resources and facilities for their absence from the data.