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IN BRIEF
Government policies are in danger of increasing children's vulnerability to mental health problems, the director of the Mental Health Foundation said at a conference in Sheffield last week. June McKerrow criticised the Department of Social Security's plans to end single-parent benefits before putting in place other supports, such as assistance ...
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Private health insurer BUPA
Private health insurer BUPA has been invited to sponsor a review of the future of the NHS, looking at its likely development by 2020, as part of the NHS's 50th anniversary celebrations in July. NHS Confederation deputy chief executive Jean Trainor said, if it took part, the company would have ...
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Suitable cases for treatment?
Last year, a newspaper article by a public health consultant carelessly used the terms 'severe personality disorder' and 'psychopath' synonymously, stating that only 20 per cent of this group will improve with therapy and describing them as an 'impossible financial burden' on the NHS.1
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Cerebral palsy
Cerebral palsy sufferer Hannah Davies receives encouragement from her mother (left) and conductor during a walking exercise at the National Institute of Conductive Education at Birmingham. Hannah is among those participating in a new kindergarten group for children aged three to seven, which focuses on teaching them practical daily-living skills, ...
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Fundamental changes to NHS financing ruled out
Health secretary Frank Dobson this week ruled out any 'fundamental changes in the way the NHS is financed', and launched a vigorous defence of its role in making the British economy more competitive.
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CHARGES ARE THE TAX THAT DARE NOT SAY ITS NAME
I read with considerable interest that the Office of Health Economics has concluded that new NHS charges make 'little economic sense' (News, page 6, 8 January).
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Ex-estates chief jailed for stealing
A health service manager convicted of pilfering nearly pounds40,000 from a health authority to help buy a Spanish holiday villa has been jailed for two-and-half years.
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AN EX-NURSE WHO THINKS IT'S TIME TO TAKE A SWING AT CHIEF EXECUTIVES
A question has been bothering me, an ex-nurse, for some time. In these days of managerial cuts and general control on bureaucracy, what is the purpose of chief executives? They cost on average pounds70,000-pounds80,000 and additionally require the support of one, normally two, secretaries. So the cost of a chief ...
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Staff complain of exclusion from white paper
Professionals and trade unions representing a range of NHS staff this week warned the government its reforms are excluding them.
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Ministers set to concede defeat on inequality targets
Ministers are ready to concede defeat in their efforts to set national targets for the reduction of health inequalities.
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Papering over the cracks in the Daily Dobson BY MICHAEL WHITE
They say there's no such thing as bad publicity, but don't believe it. By coincidence I had just finished reading Wilkie Collins' great Victorian thriller, The Woman in White, when I flicked open Saturday's Telegraph to learn that 'Care in community is scrapped: Dobson pledges more secure units for mentally ...
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The same, but different
The NHS white paper for Wales emerged only after a process of negotiation between government departments,
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Director of DoH resources and services post goes to Straw's wife
Alice Perkins, a career civil servant and wife of home secretary Jack Straw, has been appointed to one of the top jobs at the Department of Health.
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Doctors' training to include management skills
Radical proposals to put management at the heart of junior doctors' training have been accepted by professional bodies.
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Mental health guidance 'will mean huge extra workload'
Tens of thousands of patients may need to be assessed to determine if they should be sectioned under the Mental Health Act, under new guidance issued by the NHS Executive. Managers fear a huge rise in workload in having to comply with the requirement.
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The regeneration game
A bastion of vested interests? Impersonal? Bureaucratic? The demise of the conventional district general hospital has been predicted for years. But Mike Pollard believes it can survive - and even prosper
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BY MATT MUIJEN Gently does it this time round
Many will remember the launch of the Tory white paper, Working for Patients, in 1989. Softened up by the razzmatazz more usually associated with boxing matches, everyone in the NHS was herded together in halls across the nation to watch a video of Maggie. Big reforms hit us with the ...