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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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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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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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Half a league onward
Not everyone welcomes government plans to compare hospitals' performance. Lyn Whitfield reports
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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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Send in the hit squad
Send in the hit squad: health minister Alan Milburn launches a consultation document on a performance framework for the NHS at an Adam Smith Institute seminar. Last Wednesday's seminar on raising standards in healthcare was one of a series of events organised by the right-wing think-tank on 'achieving Labour's aims'. ...
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Key Points
There is some evidence that the British public would like to see an expansion of telephone advice lines.
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Key Points
The growth of telephone advice lines has been partly driven by managed care schemes, keen to reduce use of health services.
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Reel lives
Was an NHS trust right to allow TV cameras onto a psychiatric ward? Lynn Eaton reports on the row
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In person
London Ambulance Service trust has appointed its first medical director. Fionna Moore (above), an accident and emergency consultant at Charing Cross and Hammersmith hospitals, will be working for LAS two days a week and providing clinical guidance on patient care. LAS has also promoted Wendy Foers to the post of ...
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on the record
DONALD REID is the chief executive of the Association for Public Health. He was previously executive director of the Health Education Authority, specialising in programmes for youth and smoking prevention. He is an international consultant on tobacco control strategies.
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REFERENCES
1 Law J, Lyall J. A touch of glasnost in the NHS. Health Service J 1988; 98(5091): 272-73.
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A SIMPLE SOLUTION FOR THE STUDENT SHORTAGE
The Medical Workforce Standing Advisory Committee says the annual intake of medical students should be increased by about 1,000 as soon as possible (News Focus, page 13, 8 January).
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Wired for sound
If the headlines are correct, NHS Direct, a nurse-led 24-hour advice and information helpline to be set up across the country by the year 2000, will transform access to healthcare in the UK. The New NHS white paper hailed NHS Direct as a key element in the modernisation of the ...
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Time to turn the tables
'But do the panoply of indicators and league tables, together with the ritual of public scrutiny and humiliation for the laggards, actually improve performance? Where is the evidence?'
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Wet ting the whistle
NHS employees who 'go public' on wrongdoing and malpractice are to get legal protection. Patrick Butler reports on the 'whistleblowers bill'