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Holy alliance:
Holy alliance: Reverend John Palin, chaplain for Doncaster Healthcare trust, in front of one of six new hand-crafted stained glass windows in St Catherine's chapel at the multi-faith Spiritual Care Centre, which recently opened in Tickhill Road Hospital's former Oak ward. Local artist Alan Moston created the windows, which depict ...
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Ministers move cautiously on pooled budgets
Pooled budgets for health and social services will eventually be introduced but they are not a 'magic wand' for breaking down inter-agency barriers, MPs heard last week.
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IN BRIEF
The British Medical Association's council has voted unanimously to join the Jubilee 2000 campaign, which is calling for a 'once and for all' cancellation of third world debt. Council chair Sandy Macara has already written to the prime minister and senior government figures urging them to take a lead on ...
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MPs 'shocked' at wait for cataract ops in Scotland
The NHS in Scotland has come under fire from MPs for a failure to achieve targets for cataract surgery and so realise annual savings of pounds1.5m.
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Bona Lisa:
Bona Lisa: one of the 20 images on show at the Wellcome Trust's Two10 gallery in the sixth of a series of exhibitions 'exploring the relationship between contemporary medical science and art'. This picture shows a 2.8mm sample of bone from an 89-year-old woman with osteoporosis.The biomedical image awards - ...
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Row over cause of ambulance response rate fall
Managers have disputed claims of a sharp decline in ambulance response rates in south-west London following the reduction of accident and emergency services.
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This time next year, a new UK association for public health could be up and running.
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What's in a name?
PHA was set up in 1987, as part of the resistance to the developing agenda of the Conservative government, by a group of people who met at the Health Education Council.
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Target practice
Though recognising their health-promotion role, even GPs in one fairly affluent area are unsure of how to work across agencies to meet targets, reveals a survey by Thoreya Swage and Judi Linney
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POPULATION PROJECTIONS
Predicting demographic change is a tricky business. The one thing certain, says John Appleby, is that people will live longer and this will have a considerable impact on healthcare costs
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on the record
JUNE McKERROW has been director of the Mental Health Foundation since 1992. She previously worked for 25 years in housing and homelessness, most recently at Stonham establishing community-based alternatives to institutional living for people with special needs.
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Mental health groups accuse Labour of going back on election promises
Mental health groups reacted with dismay this week to the government's asyet still-secret plans for a shift in policy on community care backed by £50m a year investment in NHS mental health services.
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Looking into the future
Dr Hywel Lloyd demonstrates equipment from Telediab, a project that uses eye examinations to check for signs of diabetes, at the Wales telemedicine conference in Cardiff.
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Blair picks 'list buster' to crack down on waiting
Prime Minister Tony Blair marked his first year in office last week by stepping up action on hospital waiting lists, which he said were still 'unacceptably high'.
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In Brief: Hospital porters ballot on industrial action
Hospital porters at Leicester Royal Infirmary are threatening to hold a ballot on industrial action following the breakdown of talks over plans by private contractor Serco, which provides portering services at the hospital, to scrap their bonus payments.
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In Brief: Former nurse Gloria Justice
Former nurse Gloria Justice, whose career ended when she injured her back lifting a patient at Newcastle's Walkergate Hospital eight years ago, has been awarded £90,000. Ms Justice claimed she had not been trained in safe lifting techniques.