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Opponents fail to stop single Welsh trust
A single ambulance service trust is to be created in Wales next month despite vociferous opposition.
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Shenley Hospital pulled down its shutters and bolted its doors for good last month after saying goodbye to its final patient. In its heyday it had housed more than 2,000 mentally ill residents.
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What they said - NHS gobbledygook
The most frequently quoted example came from the value-for-money unit of the NHS directorate at the Welsh Office. It described a bed as 'a device or arrangement that may be used to permit a patient to lie down when the need to do so is a consequence of the patient's ...
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Going public
An interim report by Sir Kenneth Calman outlines proposals to bring public heath to the fore of the NHS in the longer term.
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Our growing inequalities
THE PUBLIC HEALTH GREEN PAPER ACKNOWLEDGES THE LINK BETWEEN POVERTY AND ILL HEALTH - SO SHOULD WEALTH REDISTRIBUTION BE VIEWED AS A HEALTH TARGET FOR THE FUTURE WHITE PAPER, ASKS JOHN APPLEBY
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Harry Keen Pocket profile:
Genial academic medic and doughty campaigner. Distinguished career at St Mary's, Paddington, and Guy's hospitals. World expert
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IT IS LEADERSHIP, NOT STRUCTURE, THAT MATTERS IN MENTAL HEALTH
Between them, Richard Higgins (Letters, 5 February) and Matt Muijen (Community Spirit, 22 January) pose the key questions for health service practitioners and managers. I hope some of the answers will be illuminated by direct experience of those caring for people with a mental illness.
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The home team
A trust's reorganisation of mental health services for elderly people led to a dramatic decrease in
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TRUST INTEGRATION IS OBVIOUS AND LOGICAL
Thanks, Alan Randall. 'Why not trust in integration?' (Open Space, 12 February) is a nicely argued article which suggests integrated trusts are the obvious and logical way to organise local secondary care. (I suppose that is why they are not favoured.)
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Key Points
The NHS's failure to use plain English is a long-standing and widely acknowledged problem.
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Key Points
Reorganising a mental health service for elderly people to ensure most care can be given in the client's home has led to a dramatic decrease in admissions.
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Reassure public over MMR, managers told
Matthew Poulter, who has autism, was 15 months old when he was vaccinated with MMR. His mother Rochelle, from Brighton, said: 'He had been a sociable child but his speech just stopped. He was not saying anything, just grunts and moans. I am convinced it was the MMR.' Matthew and ...
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Mergers must have meaning
We need to cure 'merger mania' - or more accurately, to take the mania out of mergers. In April, the first wave of trust mergers will kick- start radical change to the shape of acute services. Mergers have always been a political hot potato, causing local headaches for the government, ...
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Monitor
Monitor is delighted to see that the Institute of Health Services Managers is still at the cutting edge of research into management issues. To coincide with a 'merger mania' conference last week it issued a 'strictly embargoed' press statement detailing a survey of 'managers from across the NHS'. Its findings ...
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Police surgeon service needs 'urgent' updating
The Audit Commission has called for 'urgent modernisation' of the police surgeon service.
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REFERENCES
1 Goudie F, Stokes G. The Community Assessment Project. Unpublished report for Coventry Health Authority, 1990.
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Sleeping It Off
Sleeping It Off is one of 27 oil paintings by British artist Susan Macfarlane that seek to illustrate what it is like to live with childhood leukaemia. The paintings reveal a complex environment of laboratory testing and diagnosis, blood transfusion, the children's ward, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, bone marrow transplant and the ...
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LibDems call in safe-sex guide academic to rewrite manifesto
A former chief executive of the Health Education Authority, who quit after falling out with Conservative government ministers over a 'smutty' safe sex guide for children, is to help the Liberal Democrats overhaul their health policy.