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ACCESS TO GOOD QUALITY INFORMATION IS CRUCIAL - TRY A LIBRARY
As the white paper proposals are increasing the involvement of primary care staff in planning and managing healthcare for their local populations, it is important that their access to good quality published information is improved.
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50TH ANNIVERSARY SHOULD SEE A RENEWED AND TRULY NATIONAL NHS
Kieran Walshe is right to welcome the new emphasis on quality in The New NHS: modern, dependable (Open Space, 18 December). But his suggestion that the recommendations on the use of new medicines and technologies from the new National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) should have statutory force sits uncomfortably ...
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CLOSING THE ASYLUM The mental patient in modern society (2nd edition) By Peter Barham Penguin 214 pages pounds7.99
The central question of this important book is best expressed in Barham's own words: 'The question to pose today, therefore, is whether we are in a position to resolve the historical problems of the marginalised and excluded mental patient... to provide a systematic revaluation of mentally disturbed people and their ...
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Managers slam 10% union pay claim as 'catastrophic'
Managers' leaders have slammed as 'catastrophic' the 10 per cent pay claim by Unison on behalf of 256,000 NHS staff not covered by pay review bodies.
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Bristol heart surgeon received pounds150,000 in 'distinction awards'
Bristol heart surgeon James Wisheart has received almost pounds150,000 in 'distinction awards' since concerns were raised about his performance in complex operations on small babies, it has emerged.
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REFERENCES
1 Hobart A. Report on hours of work and medical staffing. JDC Annual Report 1997. BMA.
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REFERENCES
1 Butler R. Report of the Committee on Mentally Abnormal Offenders. London: HMSO, 1975.
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On the record
JUDY WILSON became the first director of the Long-Term Medical Conditions Alliance in September 1996. Previously she led the Nottingham self-help team, wrote books about self-help groups and was a non-executive director of Nottingham health authority. She is an NHS Charter adviser.
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Survival practice
A former contracts manager for a health authority, Murray King finds his current job as manager of a
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In person
Leicestershire Mental Health Service trust has appointed John Boyington (above) as chief executive. A general and psychiatric nurse, he has been on secondment to the top post at the trust for the past six months and has been formally appointed to take charge until decisions are made about a merger ...
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Nursing regulations 'must protect the public'
Radical suggestions for changing the way in which nurses, midwives and health visitors are regulated have been set out in a report commissioned by the four UK health departments.
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Monitor
It's the Patients Association wot tells it how it is, apparently. Or at least, Monitor assumes, the organisation led by novelist and agony aunt Claire Rayner was aiming to reflect the language of the street when it put out a press release about a conference encouraging people to make better ...
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Safety measures
A survey of medium-secure units for mentally disordered patients reveals wide variations in staff-to-patient ratios. James Rooney considers the implications
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Pilots need a soft landing
'There is now an enthusiasm in the NHS for joint work with other agencies where at times in the past there was little more than trepidation and distrust'
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Key Points
By establishing separate timetables for senior house officers and registrars, an obstetrics and gynaecology department has been able to reduce out-of-hours work while offering training relevant to the doctors' proposed careers.
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Key Points
More than 20 years after the publication of the Butler report which led to the establishment of medium-secure units, many of its recommendations have not been implemented.