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Key implications
Cholesterol screening programmes are unlikely to reduce mortality and can be misleading or harmful.
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on the record
SIMON STEVENS, 31, is health secretary Frank Dobson's special adviser for policy. He has previously worked as a health authority director, at London teaching hospitals, in mental health in the North East, and in Guyana and New York. He went to Oxford and Strathclyde universities.
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In person
John James has been appointed director of community and specialist health services at Hounslow and Spelthorne Community and Mental Health trust. He joins from King's Healthcare trust, where he was clinical services manager for two-and-a-half years. Previously he was chief executive of the former Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster family ...
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LibDems call in safe-sex guide academic to rewrite manifesto
A former chief executive of the Health Education Authority, who quit after falling out with Conservative government ministers over a 'smutty' safe sex guide for children, is to help the Liberal Democrats overhaul their health policy.
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Earthbound and liable to erupt
Health secretary Frank Dobson and the cerebral MP for York Hugh Bayley are old friends; together with public health minister Tessa Jowell, they form a trio of ex-Camden councillors who have become key players in New Labour's health agenda.
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Clark sets up public services panel
Focus groups are the flavour of the month in government circles. The latest - dubbed, inevitably, 'the People's Panel' - has been set up by public services minister David Clark.
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Hansard
The government is 'deeply concerned about the possibility of unfairness in the distinction awards scheme' for consultants, and is 'considering what further action might be taken', said health minister Alan Milburn in response to High Peak Labour MP Tom Levitt, who asked if merit awards would be investigated.
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Key Points
Employing an extra social worker at a 600-bed acute hospital over three winter months (January to March 1997) and extending the opening hours of the medical assessment unit reduced delayed discharges.
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Total commitment
GPs and senior managers in a deprived locality tested GP commissioning with successful outcomes. Roger Levesley describes the project
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A special dispensation
A scheme allowing hospital patients to administer their own drugs has been well received and has brought substantial savings.
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Key points
A pilot scheme allowing hospital inpatients to take responsibility for administering their own drugs has been well received by patients and nurses.
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Five key questions are asked during the assessment
Does the patient want to take part in the self-medication scheme?
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References
1 Wood S et al. A self-medication scheme for elderly patients improves compliance with their medication regimes. International J of Pharmacy Practice 1992; 1: 240-1.
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When the going gets tough
One in four nurses will be eligible for retirement in the next two years and places out number applicants for nurse training.
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Takers and leavers - recruitment facts
The Royal College of Nursing puts current nurse turnover at 21 per cent (compared with 14 per cent in 1987 and 12 per cent in 1992).
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A question of image
The government is spending pounds1.2m on a national recruitment campaign aimed at 'blowing away the cobwebs of old-fashioned perceptions of nurses and midwives'. After phase one of 'Nursing, Have You Got What it Takes?' was launched at the start of last year there were 16,000 enquires about a nursing career, ...
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key points
Employing an extra social worker at a 600-bed acute hospital over three winter months (January to March 1997) and extending the opening hours of the medical assessment unit reduced delayed discharges.