All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-06-22 – Page 3
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In brief: National Institute for Clinical Excellence
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence has ruled that taxanes Taxotere and Taxol can be used to treat advanced breast cancer where other drugs have not worked or are unsuitable. The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry welcomed the decision , but said it should have been reached without the ...
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In brief: Dr Mo Mowlam
Cabinet Office minister Dr Mo Mowlam, who co-ordinates drug policy across the government, has announced that £1m from the confiscated assets fund will be used to finance research on drug misuse among women and ethnic minorities.
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In brief: Private finance initiative contract
Thirteen of Wales' 15 trusts are taking part in a single procurement exercise for replacement finance systems. The £20m private finance initiative contract is due to be signed in September. Project board chair Alan Brace, finance director at Pontypridd and Rhondda trust, said it offered 'big economies of scale' and ...
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In brief: Mancunian Community Health trust
Mancunian Community Health trust is providing staff who will act as one-to-one mentors for pupils at three Manchester schools. They will meet 15 to 16-year-old pupils regularly to advise on health service careers.
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In brief: Ministry of Defence
The Ministry of Defence has set up a system to monitor the health of troops deployed in Sierra Leone, describing this as a 'sensible precaution' because of the large number of personnel involved. Some arrived in West Africa without anti-malaria tablets or immunisations.
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Boost to medical training with go-ahead for schools
Two new medical schools have been approved. One will be based at the University of East Anglia and the other will be a joint development between Exeter and Plymouth universities.
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Report blames breech deaths on poor care
Late diagnosis and poor care during labour are putting breech birth babies at increased risk, the Confidential Enquiry into Stillbirths and Deaths in Infancy has found.
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Bark versus bite
As the media bays for the blood of incompetent medical staff, the Commission for Health Improvement took to the road and found itself under pressure to offer reassurance about its role. Seamus Ward reports
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Grants awarded to first healthy-living centres in NI
The New Opportunities Fund has given grants worth £500,000 to establish the first healthy living centres in Northern Ireland. The money is going to two centres. The Irvinestown Community Partnership will transform four run-down houses into a healthy-living centre providing employment skills and training programmes as well as health activities. ...
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'Whole-systems' approach urged to solve chaos in rehab services
Rehabilitation services for older people are patchy and poorly co-ordinated, even though they can cut costs and reduce the number of emergency admissions, the Audit Commission says in a report published yesterday.
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Ambulance head dismisses SMPs' criticism as 'unfair'
The head of Scotland's ambulance service has rejected sharp criticism from the Scottish Parliament's audit committee.
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A Rubicon a day keeps Al's problems at bay
Iwas talking the other evening to a friend who is taking a new interest in health politics. What about the NHS making more use of the private sector, he asked. 'That's a Rubicon which Blair and Milburn are not keen to cross unless they have to, ' I explained. 'It's ...
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In brief: Alan Milburn
Health secretary Alan Milburn has announced a further 91 nurse consultant posts, taking the total number of 'supernurses' to almost 200, a third of whom specialise in critical care. The Royal College of Nursing called for further expansion.
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Patient group urges action to stop prison suicides
The National Schizophrenia Fellowship has called on home secretary Jack Straw to take steps to cut 'the rising toll of prison suicides'. Chief inspector of prisons Sir David Ramsbotham has predicted there could be more than 100 suicides in prison this year. NSF chief executive Cliff Prior said there were ...
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Thousands from overseas accept UK job offers
The number of overseas-trained nurses and midwives coming to the UK to work has risen to record levels, according to figures from the UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting. Provisional statistics show 7,361 nurses and midwives from abroad registered with the UKCC in the year to 31 ...
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No two ways about it
Labour needs to balance the health outcome and service delivery agendas in spending the modernisation money, argues Adrian Towse
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Responses to NHS consultation average £2.38 each
The government's £500,000 public consultation scheme in advance of next month's national plan has netted 210,000 responses - 150,000 from leaflets distributed in public places and just under 50,000 from leaflets sent to staff. More than 12 million leaflets were issued. People were asked for three ways of improving the ...
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