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Memories of a rock musician
Rock musician Ian Dury is someone who knows all about the inside of hospitals. He contracted polio in 1949, aged seven, probably in the public swimming pool at Southend.
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Memories of a nurse
The scars of the second world war were still in evidence when Diana Vass, now principal nurse adviser at NHS Estates, joined London's St Thomas' Hospital in 1956 as a trainee nurse.
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BY MATT MUIJEN Let's use it or lose it
What events in the 1990s will be considered significant when the history of mental healthcare is written? It is hard to tell because of so many false dawns. Responses to crises have often been little more than superficial public relations jobs coupled with a new tranche of guidance - some ...
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High hopes
The need to modernise a dilapidated and obsolete hospital stock was a major problem facing the early NHS. In the first of three articles on the forces that shaped today's NHS estate, Ann Dix investigates the ups and downs of the post war years
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From showpiece to scrap heap
When English Heritage paid a recent visit to St Margaret's Hospital, Swindon, they 'threw up their hands in horror', admits Ian Keeber, the trust's public relations officer.
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NURSES ARE TELLING US WHY THE GOING IS TOUGH
Two factors were missing from the otherwise excellent review of the current and predicted nursing shortage ('When the going gets tough', pages 28-31, 26 February).
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Forward to the past
Has Gordon Brown already been more generous towards the NHS than a Tory chancellor would have been? John Appleby assesses the background to this week's Budget
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Food scare?
Food scare? Not everyone takes willingly to eating greens so dieticians and nurses at Halifax General Hospital dressed up as fruit and vegetables to get children interested in healthy eating. They were helping to promote national food awareness week (9-15 March), masterminded by the British Dietetic Association. Putting the message ...
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An early version of Welfare to Work, the government's flagship employment policy aimed at getting unemployed young people into work, was test-driven by St James's University Hospital trust, Leeds, a year ago.
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An early version of Welfare to Work, the government's flagship employment policy aimed at getting unemployed young people into work, was test-driven by St James' and Seacroft University Hospital trust, Leeds, a year ago.
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Opposition parties are 'disappointed'
Shadow health secretary John Maples said the extra pounds500m for the health service announced by chancellor Gordon Brown was 'disappointing'.
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Mental health policy review details emerge
Details have emerged of the government's mental health policy review which suggest ministers are not turning their back on community care.
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Dark days for the Lighthouse
Why has HIV and AIDs centre London Lighthouse fallen victim to funding cuts? Pat Healy reports
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PLAIN ENGLISH ISN'T EASY WHEN JARGON SEEMS TO LEND CREDIBILITY...
Hilary Spiers is partly right ('Clarity begins at home', pages 28-30, 5 March). It is certainly a better solution to choose the right words from the beginning than translate from jargon. I am all for a culture that promotes this.
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COMMUNITY HEALTH COUNCILS STILL NEED TO RAISE THEIR POLITICAL PROFILE
I agree with Victoria West's letter (5 March). The Welsh white paper Putting Patients First, refers to community health councils a little more than the English version, but in no more positive terms.
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Cockroaches on the run
A pounds97m regeneration of a run-down east London estate looks set to transform the health prospects of its residents. Pictures by Jon Walter
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...BUT WE MUST EXPECT MAJOR CHANGES TO CREATE SOME LOCAL TENSION
As your news story and leader make clear, major reviews of hospital services do severely test the NHS's internal partnerships and do create tension between local NHS organisations.
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...BUT HELP IS ON THE WAY WITH A NEW CENTRE FOR INFORMATION QUALITY...
As Hilary Spiers points out, supporting provision of clear information for patients is an important part of the patient partnership strategy. As part of that, the NHS Executive is funding the Centre for Health Information Quality.