All Health Service Journal articles in 2002-01-31
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Ready and waiting
The enthusiasm of those who this year completed the NHS graduate training scheme must surely give heart to even the most unimaginative of the health service's critics. Paul Smith was caught up in the feel-good mood
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Largeing it
news focus - Around 8 million adults in the UK are classified as obese.Of particular concern is the rising incidence in children.Now, the National Audit Office is stepping in. Ann McGauran reports
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Halfway home
intermediate care - Short-term intermediate care in nursing homes can prove popular with patients, despite initial doubts about suitability. Ali Zaatar reports on a pilot scheme
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Go with the flow
hospital activity - GP referral patterns are not the only important influence on hospital activity. Ann Mitchell explains
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Nurse staffing at risk from plan for expansionof NHS Direct
Published: 31/01/2002, Volume II2, No. 5790 Page 8
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Days like this
First steps to end RHAs. . MoD rejects waiting-list option. . Plastic surgery row. . Report urges HA link with councils. . Bad food lengthens stay
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Seasonal cycles
winter planning - Capacity planning is challenging enough without the apparently random variables of winter.But a new model suggests changes are more predictable than we realise.Nathan Proudlove and Chris Brown report