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Short Cuts: HEA launches anti-smoking manual for schools
The Health Education Authority has launched a manual to help schools create a plan of action to educate young people about tobacco and reduce smoking on their own premises. It follows research showing that 91 per cent of schools have a smoking policy, but 63 per cent allow adults to ...
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Short Cuts: Merseyside sets up initiative against violence
Home secretary Jack Straw has launched the Merseyside zero-tolerance initiative, which aims to increase awareness of violence against women and children, a week after helping to launch the government's own initiative, Living Without Fear. The major funders of the initiative are the Merseyside health action zone and Safer Merseyside Partnership. ...
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Short Cuts: Poor people more likely to suffer mental illness
A study of mental illness in Glasgow has found a strong link with poverty. The Greater Glasgow health board study says poorer people are almost three times as likely to commit suicide and six times as likely to be committed to hospital for schizophrenia as people from more affluent areas.
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Managers warn on PCT funding
Managers have warned that funding to smooth the development of primary care trusts must be pledged in the next batch of guidance on the reforms, due out later this month.
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Health inequalities inquiry to regather
Sir Donald Acheson has announced plans to call the members of his inquiry into health inequalities back together in the wake of an official response to his report last week.
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Dentists hold clients 'to ransom'
Dentists who accept children as NHS patients only if their parents register as private patients are to be 'named and shamed' by the Association of Community Health Councils for England and Wales.
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As you were
Staff nurse John Briggs relaxes in a reminiscence room created at Whitby Hospital's Spinnaker Lodge to stimulate the memories of older patients.
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Watching expiry dates
The public health white paper sets out ambitious targets for reducing deaths by 2010. Mark Crail canvassed responses to it and found widespread scepticism that it would reduce health inequalities
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Missing the connection
Clinical evidence is being undermined by inadequate access to the Internet and by poor training. Barbara Millar reports
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Last of the summer whines?
Now the whole medical profession is alienated. And it's all Tony Blair's fault. Joanna Lyall reports from the BMA's annual conference
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Here's looking at you
Primary care groups and other players in the new NHS should be watched carefully, the community health councils' annual conference heard. Pat Healy reports
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Mental health experts greet merger plans with scepticism
Guidance fleshing out plans to merge Britain's high-security hospitals with NHS trusts will do little to tackle 'entrenched problems' of recruitment, size and morale, according to mental health experts.
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Seven teaching hospitals will battle over defence medicine centre
The Ministry of Defence has short listed seven trusts in a competition to develop a national centre for defence medicine.
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Days like this
MORI poll finds huge majority against trust plan. . . Reforms compromise rumoured. . . Labour councils urge managers' trust boycott. . .