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Northern Ireland HAZs set to get green light
Health action zones and healthy living centres are about to be extended to Northern Ireland.
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Government speeds up on proposed single regional office for London
The government is to speed up the proposed single regional office for London, health secretary Frank Dobson announced this week.
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Hansard
The government is 'shortly' to publish a consultation document on the future organisation of health and personal social services in Northern Ireland. It will contain proposals for the abolition of the internal market and is likely to herald higher levels of management cost savings than the current target of £2m ...
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Pre-school hearing, speech, language and vision screening
Significant variations in child health screening programmes are undermining the efficacy of the programme, says Mary Turner-Boutle
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Make the young pay for the old
Thinking the unthinkable is a New Labour buzz phrase, particularly in relation to the welfare state and its flagship, the NHS. But how unthinkable? How courageous are our politicians prepared to be in formulating policy? How much imagination will managers be allowed to show, and health professionals and patients be ...
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monitor
Monitor was intrigued to hear of further changes at the Patients Association. First, general manager Cathy Gritzner cut in half the amount of time she spent there, while rejecting any suggestions of a putsch. Now it emerges she has left the association altogether. She is considering a job offer in ...
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Who's sorry now?
If Frank Dobson went down badly at the RCN congress, his Tory counterpart did even worse. Lyn Whitfield reports
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Screen performance
Some health authorities are failing to meet their cervical screening targets. MarkCrail reports on the best and worst
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Showing the way
Drugs czar Keith Hellawell sits in front of the giant IMAX cinema screen at the Trocadero Centre in London during the launch of the government's 10year strategy to tackle drug misuse in Britain.
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Slow on the uptake
Managers' slothful practices in costing hospital equipment are wasting millions of pounds of NHS money every year, say Peter Cave and Leonora Descombes. And they don't even know they're doing it
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13 HAs fail to reach targets for screening
Thirteen health authorities failed to screen sufficient women to reach the national target for cervical screening in 1996-97, the National Audit Office said this week.
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In Brief: Work-related accidents
The Health and Safety Executive has issued guidance to employers on the reporting of work-related accidents and occupational ill health in hospitals, nursing homes and general practice. It said that figures suggest only 37 per cent of accidents affecting employees in health and social work were reported to HSE in ...