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Mental health organisations disagree on use of suicide as target measure
Consultation on the government's public health green paper closed today with mental health organisations deeply divided over proposals to use suicides as a measure of mental illness.
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Mac the knife reveals his operation desert storm
Guy's Hospital legend has it that in the 1970s surgeon Ian McColl, flew out to Libya, trekked on camel-back deep into the desert where, in a nomad's tent, he ministered to the ulcers and bunions of the infamous dictator, Colonel Ghaddafi.
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Package deals for the home market
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The cultivated commissioner
Only exacting recruitment and training will ensure health professionals can make a success of primary care groups, say Darrin Baines and Nigel Couper
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Let the people come
The long-term care royal commission roadshow is on its way, giving commissioners valuable insight into the public's views on service reorganisation. Barbara Millar reports
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Lacklustre Maples for the chop?
Westminster gossip has fingered shadow health secretary John Maples as a potential reshuffle victim when William Hague attempts to sharpen up the Conservatives' 'lacklustre' performance in opposition.
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Document leak fuels CHC row
A row has erupted between Barnet community health council and North Thames regional office over a memo accidentally issued to local health organisations.
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Trust chair steps down in row over merger plan
A trust chair has quit in a row over 'supertrust' merger plans. Michael Welsh announced his decision at a Chorley and South Ribble trust board meeting last week.
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Two primary care lobbies to vote on merger
Two primary care lobbies plan to merge into a single organisation.
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Confidential memo brings secrecy out into the open
Managers have been told to implement a new policy of openness about private finance initiative projects - in a confidential memo to regional offices.
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In Brief: Tony Hockley
Adviser to two Conservative health secretaries Tony Hockley argues that the last government was 'overly ambitious' about the state's role in improving public health. In a paper published with Nick Bosanquet, professor of health policy at Imperial College, London, he argues that Labour should involve the private sector and 'break' ...
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In Brief: Scottish Office-commissioned report
The Scottish health service needs to bring itself up to the level of its English counterpart in providing information to patients, says a Scottish Office-commissioned report.
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In Brief: Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
All pregnant women should be offered an HIV test and those living in high-risk areas, such as London, encouraged to take one, says a report from the Public Health Laboratory Service, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and five other royal colleges.