All News articles – Page 2340
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Box 2. Contents of literature assessment
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
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
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
A university has threatened legal action against the NHS Executive after losing a pounds12m nurse education contract.
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This week
'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
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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REFERENCES
1 Adshead H, Nelson H, Gooderally V, Gollogly P. Guidelines for successful relocation. Nursing Standard 1995; 5: 32-35.
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Moving targets
Why wait another week to read the public health green paper when The Journal can reveal all?
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A moving story
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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Milburn orders publication of Read report
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
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
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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Common misconceptions that people with severe personality disorders are 'undeserving and untreatable' often prevent them getting specialist treatment.
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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.