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Budding relationship
Assertive outreach has been touted as the saviour of community care. Dolly Chadda visited the Tulip project to find out how it works
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In Brief: Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis is out of control in at least 20 countries and poor management programmes are allowing drug-resistant forms of the disease to emerge, the World Health Organisation warned last week. Cases have risen by 13 per cent worldwide since WHO declared TB a 'global emergency' in 1993.
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In Brief: Medact
The lives of 21 million African children could be saved by the year 2000 if developing world debt was cancelled and the money diverted to healthcare and poverty reduction, campaigning organisation Medact has claimed. It is now urging health professionals to support a campaign to get unpayable debt cancelled, focusing ...
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In Brief: The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy has appointed a new chief executive. Phil Gray, labour relations director at the Royal College of Nursing, will take up the post left vacant when Paul Lambden resigned amid controversy about an after dinner speech he gave in October. Mr Gray was CSP industrial relations ...
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In Brief: Central Council for Nursing
The United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting is to launch a study into the demands placed on nurses in the prison and secure mental health services .
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In Brief: Medical Defence Union
The number of claims against the Medical Defence Union rose by 15 per cent last year. The largest award paid out by the MDU on behalf of a GP was £1.15m, compared with £2.4m the previous year, according to MDU figures released last week.
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Langlands blames Nichol for Read codes fiasco
Appointing James Read head of an NHS computer centre while his company had monopoly rights to distribute the centre's products was 'a mistake', NHS chief executive Alan Langlands said this week.
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The chance we've been waiting for
Last week the government announced a £500m Budget increase aimed at cutting NHS waiting lists to below 1.16 million by April 1999. Both prime minister Tony Blair and health secretary Frank Dobson have made clear this is the NHS's highest priority for the coming year.
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CHC attacks HA over cuts report
Patient representatives have hit out at a cash-strapped health authority for spending £48,000 on a report from management consultants proposing radical service changes.
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More art than science?
Can management decision-making emulate the model of evidence-based medicine? To do so will mean fostering a research culture, says Rosemary Stewart
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Anaesthetist wins backing for equal status
A US-trained anaesthetist fighting for consultant status in Britain has claimed to have won the backing of a prominent US doctor in a case which could have implications for medical workforce planning.
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In Brief: 'epidemic' of alcohol-related problems
Casualty departments are having to cope with an 'epidemic' of alcohol-related problems, says the Health Education Authority. Such problems affect up to eight out of 10 people needing treatment in accident and emergency at peak times, a survey of 224 A&E department shows. Staff say a third of all alcohol-related ...
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Now ain't that squeak
Ron Green of Wolverhampton uses a squeaky toy to summon a nurse on a ward for elderly people recovering from strokes at West Park Hospital. Staff bought 30 toys for the ward after its 17-year-old nurse-call system broke down. Hospital general manager Christine Irwin said: 'They are not ideal, but ...
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In Brief: Age Concern
Trusts are rationing chiropody by the back door, according to pressure group Age Concern. A survey shows that trusts deter elderly people from obtaining services by introducing complicated self-referral systems which increase waiting times.