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HAs turn to private sector for mental health services
Health authorities frustrated by the way mental health services are provided are increasingly turning to the private sector for solutions, a nationwide survey shows.
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Half a league onward
Not everyone welcomes government plans to compare hospitals' performance. Lyn Whitfield reports
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PRO-SMOKING LOBBY IS ONLY SCORING OWN GOALS
Martin Ball, spokesman for a tobacco industry-funded pressure group (Letters, 15 January), claims that under-age smoking would increase if the legal age for selling cigarettes was raised from 16 to 18. If this is true - which is most unlikely - why does he object, given that the tobacco industry ...
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Getting physical:
Getting physical: Aberdare GP Shesh Sahai leads by example with a work-out on a rowing machine. He was among doctors from across south Wales who took part in an 'Are You Fit for Work?' event last week held at a Cardiff fitness centre. Its aim was to encourage doctors to ...
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Getting the needle
Getting the needle: West Lancashire teenage school students use word games and puzzles in a project aimed at persuading them to be immunised against tetanus, diphtheria and polio. The project was set up after research by West Lancashire trust senior lecturer Lily Batteson and school nurses Wendy Burchett and Dorothy ...
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Fund GPs pull out in protest at Labour plan
A Berkshire practice is thought to be the first to pull out of the fundholding scheme in protest at the Labour government's health reforms.
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View finders
Involving users in decisions about rationing drug treatments can bring a qualitative perspective to approving new drugs.
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GETTING THE FIGURES STRAIGHTENED OUT
An error crept into my article 'Home truths' (pages 30-31, 15 January). It should read:
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Nurses' fears for patient safet y - inquiry ordered
Hospital managers have launched an inquiry after nurses claimed they were so overworked that patient safety was at risk.
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Milburn gets new 'eyes and ears'
Salford people are blessed with 'courage, determination, wit and compassion, and... an unrivalled ability to see through falseness and to expose insincerity', said the city's Labour MP, Hazel Blears, in her maiden speech last May.
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Frank Dobson
One of health secretary Frank Dobson's special advisers has been involved in developing computer systems that will help ministers manage news more effectively. According to press reports, Joe McCrae has been working on a Department of Health system which analyses government activity constituency by constituency. It should allow Mr Dobson ...
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Clinicians will get a major role in Scot tish reforms
Clinicians are to be given a major role in reshaping health services in the first detailed plan implementing the government's white paper reforms in Scotland.
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In the clear
Giving patients clear and comprehensible information is crucial. Jane Beenstock and colleagues explain how their hospital has gone about ensuring the information they provide is jargon-free and written in plain English
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Sing le-trust consultation process condemned by CHCs
Critics of plans to create a single ambulance trust in Wales have issued a declaration of no confidence in the consultation process, which ended this week.
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Sacked trust chair with Tor y links is reappointed
Health secretary Frank Dobson has been forced to reappoint a trust chair with Conservative Party connections less than two months after he sacked her.
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When it's time to call in CID
Trials of an American initiative dealing with stress and post-traumatic stress have proved successful, despite initial scepticism. Dolly Chadda reports
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Bristol doctors fail to get charges dropped
Three doctors accused of misconduct over the high infant mortality rate at Bristol Royal Infirmary last week lost an eight-day legal battle to have the charges against them thrown out on the basis that they had no case to answer.