All News articles – Page 2340

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    Box 2. Contents of literature assessment

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    Writing style: questions about the way the information is written - for example, print size and layout.

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    HA's pounds4.3m cuts will tackle pounds7.2m debt

    1998-01-29T00:00:00Z

    A health authority has agreed a pounds4.3m package of cuts to tackle a pounds7.2m deficit next year. South Essex HA hopes the remaining pounds2.9m deficit can be closed through further efficiency savings.

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    1948 and all that

    1998-01-29T00:00:00Z

    Managers, doctors, nurses, unions, patients - you couldn't get a white paper cover between their leaders when they got together to give the NHS 50th anniversary celebrations their official send-off. An incredulous Mark Crail joined in the fun

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    University cries foul in pounds12m tender

    1998-01-29T00:00:00Z

    A university has threatened legal action against the NHS Executive after losing a pounds12m nurse education contract.

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    VOL 108 NO 5589 THURSDAY 29 JANUARY 1998

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    SUBSCRIPTION DEPARTMENT ONLY

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    This week

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    'Drugs czar' Keith Hellawell holds up a new drugs guide for 14- 16-year-olds during a press call at Haverstock school, London. Mr Hellawell, UK anti-drugs co-ordinator, said The Score: facts about drugs was designed to combat 'the huge amount of misinformation and myths' circulating among young people. The Health Education ...

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    WEB WATCH

    1998-01-22T00:00:00Z

    Our Victorian ancestors were obsessed with public health. But then, few things concentrate the mind quite as much as the prospect of regular and deadly outbreaks of contagious disease. And unlike the health scares of the 1990s, those of the 1830s and 1840s were particularly real in nature.

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    TELEMEDICINE

    1998-01-22T00:00:00Z

    5 February, Manchester

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    REFERENCES

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    1 Ooi R. The Guardian, 2 July 1997.

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    REFERENCES

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    1 The New NHS: modern, dependable. The Stationery Office, 1997.

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    REFERENCES

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    1 Adshead H, Nelson H, Gooderally V, Gollogly P. Guidelines for successful relocation. Nursing Standard 1995; 5: 32-35.

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    In person

    1998-01-22T00:00:00Z

    Parkside Health trust has appointed Michael Attwood (above) operations director with responsibility for services in Brent. He joins from Pathfinder trust, where he was manager of specialist mental health services.

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    Moving targets

    1998-01-22T00:00:00Z

    Why wait another week to read the public health green paper when The Journal can reveal all?

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    A moving story

    1998-01-22T00:00:00Z

    Deaths among frail, elderly mentally ill patients following their transfer from hospital to the community are not inevitable. Kenneth Bledin and John Riordan explain

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    Monitor

    1998-01-22T00:00:00Z

    Always happy to give a fellow hack down on his luck a break, Monitor had been hoping to get former health minister and two-time election loser Gerry Malone into the Journal for a few shifts on the newsdesk. Happily that won't now be necessary, for Gerry has found a niche ...

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    Milburn orders publication of Read report

    1998-01-22T00:00:00Z

    Health minister Alan Milburn has ordered the speedy publication of an allegedly damning report on a crisis-hit NHS computer project amid reports of a cover-up.

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    Tell it like it is

    1998-01-22T00:00:00Z

    Despite the rhetoric, carers are often required to look after sick and disabled people with a lack of information no professional would tolerate.

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    Key Points

    1998-01-22T00:00:00Z

    Employing nurses on annual-hours contracts which include on-call and stand-down duties has led to more efficient deployment of staff in relation to workload.

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    Key Points

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    Common misconceptions that people with severe personality disorders are 'undeserving and untreatable' often prevent them getting specialist treatment.

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    Key Points

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    DGHs are faced with a choice between restricting their focus to intensive surgical and medical services or building up alliances with other agencies, including GPs.