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In sickness, not in health
Which NHS staff group smokes the most, and which drinks the least? And why are sickness absence rates so high? Mark Crail reports on a Health Education Authority survey
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Community spirit
One of the UK's smallest community trusts and its local GPs have set in motion a proposal to merge and create the UK's first primary care trust. Patrick Butler reports
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Share and share alike
Health workers in Glasgow are setting out to win a bigger share of NHS resources from richer areas. Barbara Millar investigates
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Head start
Pharmacists in one city are being allowed to prescribe head lice treatments. Pat Healy asks whether the idea will catch on
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Consuming passions
A Department of Health initiative could start a consumer revolution in healthcare research, claim its supporters. Annabelle May reports
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Aims and values
The aim of the standing advisory group is to ensure that consumer involvement in the NHS R&D programme improves the way research is prioritised, commissioned and disseminated.
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Pilots need a soft landing
'There is now an enthusiasm in the NHS for joint work with other agencies where at times in the past there was little more than trepidation and distrust'
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Keep your eye on the ball
So not only does England only ever win the World Cup under a Labour government, but the weather is better, too. Even under the present regime no spin doctor has yet had the brass neck to claim cause and effect. But it does seem that health secretary Frank Dobson and ...
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EMPLOYERS MUST PLAY A ROLE IN TRAINING
I read with interest Professor David Cox's letter (6 November). As vice-chair of the West Yorkshire education and training consortium, I am proud that it works extremely well in education commissioning and collaborative working.
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FIGURES FOR THE 'VICTIMS OF COMMUNITY CARE', AND HOW TO REDUCE THEM
There is little with which we would disagree in John Mahoney's analysis of community care services for severely mentally ill people (Letters, 18 December), the principal focus of the Zito Trust's campaign being precisely those areas and issues he describes.
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THOUGHTS ON THE REAL ANTI-SMOKING AGENDA
So public health minister Tessa Jowell wants to criminalise those smokers aged 16 and 17, who can presently be legally sold tobacco products (News Focus, page 10, 4 December).
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COMMON WAITING LISTS COULD MEAN MORE MONEY
Moves to establish common waiting lists could have positive financial implications for the NHS.
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WHY DIET IS A CRUCIAL BUT NEGLECTED PART IN NURSING PATIENTS BACK TO GOOD HEALTH
The views expressed by Patrick Duffy of NHS Supplies (Letters, 4 December) are endorsed and, indeed, voiced repeatedly by the state-registered dietitian. The evidence for the positive contribution of nutrition to clinical outcomes is well documented; however, patients still go hungry in hospital.
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IT'S HARD TO FIND, BUT INFORMATION FOR DEAF PEOPLE ABOUT HEALTHCARE SERVICES IS AVAILABLE
Nick Mears says that deaf people do not get equal opportunities in healthcare, especially information translated in sign language, which is almost nil (Letters, 6 November).
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YES, VAT IS A PROBLEM FOR PFI SCHEMES, BUT IS THERE A RISK OF THE TAIL WAGGING THE DOG?
Hugh Love (Letters, 4 December) is right to raise the problematic issue of VAT and its effect on affordability in private finance initiative schemes.
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BY CHRISTINE HANCOCK Party to a vision of the future
If nothing else, 1998 will be a landmark for the NHS. Its year- long 50th birthday party starts this month, even though the balloons and birthday cake will have to wait for the celebrations which will mark the first 'NHS Week' in July. The mood is deliberately upbeat, but for ...
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How Tony's welfare roadshow packs a punch BY MICHAEL WHITE
Shortly before Christmas I heard from a forceful woman lobbyist of my acquaintance for the first times in ages. She was outraged that Customs & Excise had quietly slipped VAT back on categories of incontinence products which had escaped from the taxman's grip via a court ruling under the wicked ...
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Monitor
It's the Patients Association wot tells it how it is, apparently. Or at least, Monitor assumes, the organisation led by novelist and agony aunt Claire Rayner was aiming to reflect the language of the street when it put out a press release about a conference encouraging people to make better ...