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Short Cuts: Adult smoking levels down over two decades
Public health minister Yvette Cooper has welcomed a compilation of statistics on smoking from 1978 onwards that show it has dropped among adults. The figures show that in 1998, 27 per cent of adults aged 16 and over smoked cigarettes, a drop from 40 per cent in 1978.But the prevalence ...
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Surgeons admit no evidence of value for money in trauma plans
The Royal College of Surgeons has demanded a major re-organisation of trauma services, while admitting there is no evidence this would be costeffective.
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Heard the one about. . .
. . . a national plan to resolve the problems of the NHS? A laudable concept but plagued with pitfalls for politicians. Rudolf Klein has heard it all before
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In Brief: The Department of Health commissioned 42 pieces of market and opinion research
The Department of Health commissioned 42 pieces of market and opinion research during 1999-2000, of which 11 involved focus groups, and 12 involved 'other market research' (the remainder are 'quantitative surveys'). Some 31 are listed as 'not published'. (Hansard , 17 July, col 65w)
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In Brief: The NHS has built 87 major hospitals between 1980 and 1999
The NHS has built 87 major hospitals between 1980 and 1999, with the most productive years being 1988 and 1991, when nine hospitals with a capital value of over £25m (at today's prices) went up in each year. Not included in the figures were the 38 major hospitals that have ...
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PFI projects ring up £52.7m in consultant bills
The full scale of expenditure on financial advisers, lawyers and other consultants in the 18 major private finance initiative hospital schemes that have so far gone ahead has been revealed in the Commons - a cool £52.7m.
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WEB WATCH
If you want to know whether the porters at Huddersfield trust have been trained in safe ways to lift and handle patients or equipment (they have), or whether Royal West Sussex trust can claim that its discharge care planning documents are an integral part of its clinical records (not yet ...
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In the wars
After a growing number of horrifying attacks on hospital staff, trusts are getting tough with their assailants. Phil Coleman reports
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Troubleshooters sent in to sort 'red-hot' pressure trust
London regional office has sent a troubleshooting team into Barts and the London trust to tackle performance in a month in which the trust has lost its chair and admitted 'red-hot pressures' in intensive care.
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Picking up the pieces
A jointly funded residential service accepts 'difficult-to-place' mental patients, whose care in the community has previously failed. Andy Ward and Jon Woolmore explain
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Shape up or ship out
More people are heading overseas for non-urgent treatment, many in response to long waiting lists at home. But should the NHS foot the bill? Seamus Ward reports
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Regular consumers of this page may remember one Dr Tara Fields, a lady doctor and Yankee to boot. (In the interests of Monitor's continued fight against institutional jokes about people not from round here, it should be noted that violence against Americans is reckless and not much fun. ) But ...
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'Matron' to return with revamped role
Health secretary Alan Milburn is to use the NHS national plan - set to be unveiled next week - to push the concept of a return to 'matron', HSJ has learned.