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HAs turn to private sector for mental health services
Health authorities frustrated by the way mental health services are provided are increasingly turning to the private sector for solutions, a nationwide survey shows.
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Getting the needle
Getting the needle: West Lancashire teenage school students use word games and puzzles in a project aimed at persuading them to be immunised against tetanus, diphtheria and polio. The project was set up after research by West Lancashire trust senior lecturer Lily Batteson and school nurses Wendy Burchett and Dorothy ...
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University cries foul in pounds12m tender
A university has threatened legal action against the NHS Executive after losing a pounds12m nurse education contract.
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Sacked trust chair with Tor y links is reappointed
Health secretary Frank Dobson has been forced to reappoint a trust chair with Conservative Party connections less than two months after he sacked her.
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Hardy annuals
A trust's experiment with annual-hours working has reduced reliance on agency staff, saved thousands of pounds and proved popular with staff. Ed Rennie and Hazel Allanach explain
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Key Points
Employing nurses on annual-hours contracts which include on-call and stand-down duties has led to more efficient deployment of staff in relation to workload.
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Suitable cases for treatment?
Last year, a newspaper article by a public health consultant carelessly used the terms 'severe personality disorder' and 'psychopath' synonymously, stating that only 20 per cent of this group will improve with therapy and describing them as an 'impossible financial burden' on the NHS.1
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Key Points
Common misconceptions that people with severe personality disorders are 'undeserving and untreatable' often prevent them getting specialist treatment.
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IN BRIEF
Government policies are in danger of increasing children's vulnerability to mental health problems, the director of the Mental Health Foundation said at a conference in Sheffield last week. June McKerrow criticised the Department of Social Security's plans to end single-parent benefits before putting in place other supports, such as assistance ...
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Managers slam 10% union pay claim as 'catastrophic'
Managers' leaders have slammed as 'catastrophic' the 10 per cent pay claim by Unison on behalf of 256,000 NHS staff not covered by pay review bodies.
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Cerebral palsy
Cerebral palsy sufferer Hannah Davies receives encouragement from her mother (left) and conductor during a walking exercise at the National Institute of Conductive Education at Birmingham. Hannah is among those participating in a new kindergarten group for children aged three to seven, which focuses on teaching them practical daily-living skills, ...
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Ex-estates chief jailed for stealing
A health service manager convicted of pilfering nearly pounds40,000 from a health authority to help buy a Spanish holiday villa has been jailed for two-and-half years.
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Moving targets
Why wait another week to read the public health green paper when The Journal can reveal all?
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Heart murmurs
Doctors and the government are at loggerheads over the best way to tackle coronary heart disease in Scotland.
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Using their initiative
Tomorrow is the deadline for health action zone applications. Dolly Chadda looks at one project which claims to exemplify just what the government is looking for
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Action stations
Never mind the rhetoric, Labour must do something about health inequalities, the Public Health Alliance conference was told.
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The same, but different
The NHS white paper for Wales emerged only after a process of negotiation between government departments,