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    Medical devices in users' homes fall through year 2000 loophole

    1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

    Thousands of medical devices in patients' houses and nursing homes have slipped through a hole in the NHS Executive's year 2000 programme, it emerged last week.

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    Box 2. People in contact with mental health services (per cent)

    1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

    Camberwell West Birmingham*

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    Vroom with a view

    1999-03-25T00:00:00Z

    Look out at the car park adjoining the admin block of a typical trust and it should be possible to tell which car belongs to which manager. A VW Passat or Landrover Freelander - that will be the chief executive's. BMW 300 Series or Rover 620 - it must be ...

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    telephone services

    1999-03-25T00:00:00Z

    'It seemed a bit robotic, but you pick up vibes from the caller and use your clinical judgement'

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    telephone services

    1999-03-25T00:00:00Z

    Phone bills: costs and calls

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    REFERENCES

    1999-03-25T00:00:00Z

    1 Evaluation of NHS Direct First-wave Sites. First interim report to the Department of Health. School of health and related research, Sheffield University, 1998.

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    'Rethink suicide prevention' HAs urged

    1999-03-25T00:00:00Z

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    in person

    1999-03-25T00:00:00Z

    Greater Manchester Ambulance Service trust has appointed Allan Withers as emergency planning manager. Mr Withers, who joined GMAS in 1992, will also take charge of year 2000 preparations.

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    monitor

    1999-03-25T00:00:00Z

    Nurses' union boss Christine Hancock modestly confides to Monitor the story of a visit to a jazz club when she was 'shoved forward' to take care of a man who had a fit. It's a long time since she practised, so she was relieved to find some 'real nurses' already ...

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    NHSnet 'is not millennium-compliant'

    1999-03-25T00:00:00Z

    A key part of the NHS information strategy is not millennium-proof even though it was built less than five years ago, according to a report for the NHS Executive.

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    Some winners, some losers, some still waiting

    1999-03-25T00:00:00Z

    The distribution of a £60m 'award' for GPs has been agreed by health ministers and the British Medical Association.

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    Light touch

    1999-03-25T00:00:00Z

    Light touch: baby Zainab Bharwani and link worker Bimla Karra experience a multi-sensory room at Birmingham Community Children's Centre, while Zainab's mother, Shahnez Miah, looks on. The centre includes a clinic, therapy room, soft play area and facilities for local children and children with special needs.

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    Profile Veteran who knows how to PAC a punch

    1999-03-25T00:00:00Z

    westminster diary

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    It's jargon. Government jargon. Not plain jargon

    1999-03-25T00:00:00Z

    John Paton is not alone in finding the titles of government initiatives 'cloying, sentimental, inane and downright meaningless', with their 'mania for the colon followed by the apple-pie and motherhood adjectives' (letters, 25 February). Unfortunately, this style is not limited to the covers of documents, but extends to the text ...

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    Get the picture?

    1999-03-25T00:00:00Z

    Get the picture? motorcycle paramedic Andy Whatling puts a new lapel-mounted camera through its paces. The camera relays pictures to other system users via a belt-mounted computer.

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    GADFLY

    1999-03-25T00:00:00Z

    An everyday tale of trust folk, appearing fortnightly

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    Grappling with the F-word

    1999-03-25T00:00:00Z

    news focus

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    Pregnant with expectations

    1999-03-25T00:00:00Z

    opinion