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BY MATT MUIJEN Gently does it this time round
Many will remember the launch of the Tory white paper, Working for Patients, in 1989. Softened up by the razzmatazz more usually associated with boxing matches, everyone in the NHS was herded together in halls across the nation to watch a video of Maggie. Big reforms hit us with the ...
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Papering over the cracks in the Daily Dobson BY MICHAEL WHITE
They say there's no such thing as bad publicity, but don't believe it. By coincidence I had just finished reading Wilkie Collins' great Victorian thriller, The Woman in White, when I flicked open Saturday's Telegraph to learn that 'Care in community is scrapped: Dobson pledges more secure units for mentally ...
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WEB WATCH
Our Victorian ancestors were obsessed with public health. But then, few things concentrate the mind quite as much as the prospect of regular and deadly outbreaks of contagious disease. And unlike the health scares of the 1990s, those of the 1830s and 1840s were particularly real in nature.
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The regeneration game
A bastion of vested interests? Impersonal? Bureaucratic? The demise of the conventional district general hospital has been predicted for years. But Mike Pollard believes it can survive - and even prosper
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DGHs are faced with a choice between restricting their focus to intensive surgical and medical services or building up alliances with other agencies, including GPs.
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A moving story
Deaths among frail, elderly mentally ill patients following their transfer from hospital to the community are not inevitable. Kenneth Bledin and John Riordan explain
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The risk of death among elderly patients moved out of long-stay psychiatric hospitals can be minimised with careful preparation.
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REFERENCES
1 Adshead H, Nelson H, Gooderally V, Gollogly P. Guidelines for successful relocation. Nursing Standard 1995; 5: 32-35.
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Tell it like it is
Despite the rhetoric, carers are often required to look after sick and disabled people with a lack of information no professional would tolerate.
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Carers want a great deal more medical and practical information than they are given at present.
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CLOSING THE ASYLUM The mental patient in modern society (2nd edition) By Peter Barham Penguin 214 pages pounds7.99
The central question of this important book is best expressed in Barham's own words: 'The question to pose today, therefore, is whether we are in a position to resolve the historical problems of the marginalised and excluded mental patient... to provide a systematic revaluation of mentally disturbed people and their ...