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PROOF THAT THE GOVERNMENT IS LISTENING TO GRASS-ROOTS ON MENTAL HEALTH
The latest leaked mental health strategy continues to whet the appetite (News Focus, page 11, 30 April). Prioritising both intensive health-based services (assertive outreach and 24-hour nursed beds) and social care (supported housing, meaningful occupations) reflects a growing consensus on what a comprehensive locally based service should look like.
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PUBLIC AND MEDIA HYSTERIA PUTS MORE PEOPLE AT RISK OF HIV THAN ANYONE WHO IS HIV-POSITIVE
HIV voluntary organisations are sometimes asked why we keep going on about HIV. Isn't it all over? Haven't we been to the top of the hill and down again?
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CHANGE MUST COME, AND THE SOONER THE BETTER
The merger of acute and community trusts, the closure of 'cottage hospitals', the rights of healthcare 'consumers', and fears about primary care groups going the way of US managed care are all very closely linked to the thorny issue of accountability within the system for the integrated delivery of a ...
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QUERIES: JOINT WORKING, PLANNING, MENTAL HEALTH
I have recently been given the opportunity to act as elderly day care liaison nurse between day care services from health and social services. The people I will be involved with are over 65 and have a diagnosis of dementia.
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Magnetic attraction to nurses
One great story about Florence Nightingale is rarely told. It describes how the forthright Florence refused to work unless she was given control over the whole environment in which patients were nursed. She was confident they would get better more quickly if nurses were put in charge of their care. ...
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The People's Dobbo takes on the fat cats BY MICHAEL WHITE
By happy coincidence Lord Sainsbury of Turville, the grocery tycoon, chose to announce his imminent retirement from the board of the family firm in the very week that 'fat cat' rhetoric resurfaced in our great national press and, heaven help us, in the vocabulary of our great NHS as well.
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Monitor
First, his boss, Tony Blair, signalled he would like to see the health secretary enter the race to become mayor of London. Now other colleagues have followed suit. A poll of Labour MPs by market research group Opinion Leader Research found Dobbo to be the top choice among those mooted ...
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Meet the Aerospace Medical Association.
You've read all those stories about how, while 30,000ft up in a jumbo jet, a GP armed only with a small item of cutlery and a miniature bottle of whisky with which to sterilise it performs life-saving surgery on the pilot, allowing him to land the plane safely. Now meet ...
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Fair shares for all
The New NHS white paper and the recently published green paper, Our Healthier Nation, both place a heavy responsibility on health authorities to develop a public health strategy focused on multi-agency working. How to tackle poverty and its impact on health inequality will be a key issue for all HAs.
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Health authority principles on tackling poverty
Where services are resource-limited, they will be targeted at those in poverty.
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Time for a meeting of minds
A year into the current Labour administration we have policy initiatives that radically change the ideological basis of mental health services. Yet these initiatives have not been accompanied by clear thinking on the skills that managers will need to be able to deliver this new agenda or how organisations will ...
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Key Points
The policy agenda for mental health services requires managers to develop new skills.
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In person
John Mangan (above) has been appointed chief executive of the newly formed Thames Gateway trust. Mr Mangan was previously chief executive of North Kent Healthcare trust, which has merged with Thameslink Healthcare Services trust to form Thames Gateway. Mr Mangan qualified in psychiatric and general nursing and then took a ...
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Negligence actions at risk
How will medical negligence cases be conducted in the brave new world if legal aid is withdrawn? Health service managers will find much to chew on in a report just out from the Institute for the Study of the Legal Profession at Sheffield University.
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Appeal Court clarifies fixed-term contracts
The Court of Appeal has cleared up confusion over fixed-term contracts, though the case, Kelly-Phillips v the BBC, is likely to go to the House of Lords.
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Consent ruling on Caesarians
A long-awaited ruling last Thursday by the Court of Appeal will stem the tide of NHS trusts making pleas to the High Court to sanction emergency Caesareans on women who refuse consent.
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IN BRIEF
Barristers were up in arms when the top 40 legal aid earners were 'named and shamed' by the Lord Chancellor's Department. One QC, who often acts for plaintiffs in medical negligence cases, and was paid more than pounds300,000 from the legal aid fund in 1996-97, protested that he won 82 ...
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University challenge
Health service managers are moving into university research and development posts, bringing extra funds in their wake, and getting a chance to work more analytically and reflectively, reports Bernadette Friend