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BY HOWARD BERLINER Anti-tax sentiment in ashes
The debate over the responsibility of tobacco companies for the medical costs of illness related to smoking still rages in the US. Most recently, the tobacco industry agreed to pay $6bn to the state of Minnesota, just as a jury was about to begin final deliberations. This action has given ...
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THE VOICE OF APH SPEAKS OUT LOUD AND CLEAR
Following Barbara Millar's report (News focus, page 9, 14 May) on the prospect of a new organisation for public health emerging from the alliance of the Association for Public Health and the Public Health Alliance, I'd like to point out that I am now co-chair of the APH.
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HOW TO IDENTIFY A LACK OF READING AROUND
Rowena Barnes' and Karen Hansed's article about the effectiveness of clinical audit ('Check-up time', pages 26-27, 21 May) showed such a breathtaking ignorance of both the literature on and the practice of clinical audit and quality improvement in healthcare, it is hard to know how to begin to respond.
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Human resources strategy delayed until the autumn
The government's promised new human resources strategy for the NHS has been delayed until the autumn, the Journal has learned.
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A CULTURE THAT KNOWS HOW BEST TO NETWORK
David Hunter (Live from Leeds, 7 May) raised interesting issues about the co-ordination and networking requirements of health action zones and health improvement programmes.
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Two cheers for Better Wales
Academics have raised 'two cheers' for the government's 'new approach' to tackling health problems in Wales.
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Warming up for the big fight
Campaigners fighting to 'save' Wallingford Hospital like to draw attention to its pioneering history.
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A share of the blame
How much responsibility should commissioning authorities bear for detecting the kind of problems uncovered at Bristol Royal Infirmary's paediatric cardiac surgery unit?
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Trust blames HA for deficit in discharges row
A feud has broken out over allegations that a health authority has pushed one of its local trusts into the red.
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Union blasts Scottish blood service shake-up that mirrors English move
Union leaders have condemned the biggest shake-up of Scotland's blood transfusion service in 50 years.
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BMA to rewrite clinical competence guidance
Doctors' leaders are to issue new guidance to medical directors in a bid to ensure whistleblowers can take their fears about senior colleagues' clinical competence to managers working outside the trust concerned.
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It cuts both ways
John Maples' list of '101 hospital cuts and closures' must have seemed like such a good idea. Labour made great capital out of dossiers of cuts while it was in opposition and for a day or so the new shadow health secretary seemed bound for similar success.
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Branding those who bury their mistakes BY MICHAEL WHITE
I did a little survey the other day and found that there are now 34 Labour doctors in the House, seven Tories and just one Liberal Democrat - Twickenham's Vince Cable. Doctors in the sense of PhDs and DPhils, of course. New Labour retains a touching Old Labour faith in ...
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IN BRIEF
An acute services review of the NHS in Scotland was due on ministers' desks this week. The review is expected to place special emphasis on specialist services in rural areas, addressing what Sir David Carter, chief medical officer for Scotland, called the 'tyranny of distance imposed by Scotland's geography'. The ...
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Bristol - the turning point
'The relationship between doctors and their patients, and between doctors and the health service, must change, for the haunting demeanour of the bereaved parents will have a profound impact'
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Close call
When a health authority is looking for revenue savings, sooner or later its glance will fall on the local cottage hospital. But few such closure plans have been successfully completed, and some have caused HAs more time and effort than the savings justify. In almost every case, the HA has ...
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Juniors to call for New Deal rethink
Junior hospital doctors look set to call for a rethink of the New Deal on working hours this week as the British Medical Association's annual round of specialist group conferences gets underway.