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Carrying on with continuity
Is 'continuity of care' an outmoded concept? While we still extol its virtues, the current reforms seem to threaten the whole idea. Whether the discussion is about GPs' out-of-hours co-operatives, walk-in centres, junior doctors and their shift systems, booked admissions or NHS Direct, all have an impact on continuity. Can ...
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Patients' Net gain, but docs need their wiring chequed
We had glandular fever, the student illness, in our house recently. Or, rather, we had it when the little chap came home to recuperate. So when I logged on to the NHS Direct Online website, as Tony Blair had instructed us all to do, I went hunting for it.
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WEB WATCH MARK CRAIL
As you contemplate the prospect of a Christmas and new year debauched like no other in history, pause a moment and consider the effect of your over-indulgence on the government's health targets. Consider, too, the effect on public health minister Yvette Cooper's blossoming career, and vow moderation in all things.
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Spin-doctor resigns over Deacon 'death threat' tale
Scottish first minister Donald Dewar has asked one of his senior advisers to resign over allegations that he fabricated stories about health minister Susan Deacon receiving a death threat.
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Experts condemn proposals to detain 'untreatable' people
Government proposals to lock up people with 'dangerous severe personality disorder' have come under renewed fire as consultation draws to a close this month.
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McKay will be Langlands' deputy
The NHS Executive has announced the appointment of a deputy for chief executive Sir Alan Langlands. Neil McKay, Trent regional director since 1996, will take up his new post on 17 January.
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Roylance in plea for future of high-risk ops
The former chief executive of United Bristol Healthcare trust has appealed to the Bristol Royal Infirmary inquiry to find a way of preventing similar tragedies without depriving high-risk patients of treatment.
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Inquiry seeks legal clarification on retention of human organs by hospitals
The inquiry is likely to press for clarification of the law on organ retention, chair Professor Ian Kennedy has announced. It asked for legal advice after witnesses revealed that UK hospitals hold more than 15,000 organs.
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PFI guidance holdup 'over by Christmas'
The NHS Executive's private finance initiative guidance is finally being published - about two years late.
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Going the whole Hogmanay
The contrast could hardly be greater. At the same time as tens of thousands of people prepare to hit the streets of Edinburgh to party into 2000 to the sounds of pop stars Texas, Del Amitri, The Mavericks and, especially for those with long memories, the Bay City Rollers, staff ...
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Death becomes her
Crime novelist PD James has spent her career writing about murder, but in her autobiography she reflects on her 19 years' work as an NHS administrator, and painful experiences of mental illness in the family. Joanna Lyall reports
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Jim'll fix it, but Mr Poplar he ain't
By strange coincidence, the previously little-known MP for Poplar and Canning Town, Jim Fitzpatrick, has been thrust into the limelight as a key aide to both the current health secretary, Alan Milburn, and former health secretary Frank Dobson.
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Euro food boss pledges legislation with bite
The prospect of a European food authority with independent powers to provide authoritative scientific advice to EU member states has been raised by the new commissioner for health and consumer protection, David Byrne.