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Mutual benefits
Providing advice on benefit entitlements and debt in a primary care setting can help people who might not otherwise have sought advice. Richard Bundy reports
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monitor
Monitor has been watching the appointment of our new top nurse - a lady and an American! - with excitement. Those RCN members not mutinously muttering 'who she?' about their new American general secretary Beverly Malone seem keen to offer themselves as her new best friend. The RCN's website discussion ...
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Dear Mel. . .
What exactly is this Nyebevan thing people keep talking about in the NHS ? What did it do and why is it important ?
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Trusts' debts threaten Scottish acute review
Implementation of reviews of acute services across Scotland may be threatened by the escalating debt faced by many trusts.
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Bill 'should increase openness'
Local government scrutiny of the NHS is set to bring more health service information into the public domain, MPs heard last week.
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Days like this
The future of the government's waiting-list initiative is in doubt because of a row over how the £35m for 1991-92 is to be spent. Crisis talks are taking place between health minister Virginia Bottomley and John Yates of Birmingham University, who heads a project targeting the NHS's worst lists. He ...
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The age of consent
How well-founded are fears that the Redfern report on Alder Hey will produce a raft of new procedures and regulations that will hamper vital clinical research? Thelma Agnew reports
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Join the club
Doctors agree that the GMC's old-boy network image must go. But they are arguing about how to achieve this, as Mark Gould explains
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Ill effects
Software for the NHS's new integrated payroll and human resources system is set to include a controversial 'scoring'system that some say drives staff to work when they are ill. Chris Gallagher reports
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Hic hic hooray
The government may at last be getting somewhere with its national strategy on alcohol misuse - but what are A&E staff already doing to manage the problems they encounter? Lynn Eaton reports
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Over the threshold
Bradford combines measures of both frequency and duration of absence, with a greater weighting placed on frequency. The formula S2D, or S x S x D, is used to calculate a 'score'or 'index'for a given period, usually a rolling year, where S is the number of spells of absence, and ...
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Drinking-up time: how one hospital tackles alcohol-related attendances
At the top of every accident and emergency form at London's St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London, is a checklist of 10 conditions most likely to be alcoholrelated. These include a fall, collapse, fits, head injury, assault, self-neglect, feeling unwell, non-specific gastro-intestinal complaints, psychiatric problems, cardiac problems and just being a ...
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Borderline case
The long-awaited Welsh answer to England's NHS plan calls for a complete reorganisation - beginning with the abolition of health authorities. Tash Shifrin reports
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Keeping a sense of the whole as the parts diverge
Devolution may lead to glaring disparities in provision of care
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Democracy stripped by a layer
Abolition of Welsh HAs has thrown their staff 's lives into uncertainty
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Admissions of difficulty
The history of law in general, and the Mental Health Act in particular, tells us a lot about changing attitudes towards society's most vulnerable.
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Grim reading of Redfern encourages pathological fear of organ donation
As I type I am listening to Professor Dick van Velzen of Alder Hey Hospital fame explaining to Radio 4's To d a y that the organ donor scandal which gripped the country for much of last week was not really his fault.
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THE PERSUADERS
Name: Elizabeth Manero Job: Chair, London Health Link - the umbrella body for the capital's community health councils.