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We need action not words on rights and education for lesbians and gay men
The slogan for this year's World AIDS Day was 'Force for change, world AIDS campaign with young people'.
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Where there's a saving, there's also a loss
All this talk about general practices keeping savings seems a little out of touch (News Focus, pages 14-15, 19 November).
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GP fees for telephone advice Phoney argument militates against old- fashioned common sense...
Any system whereby we bring our services and advice nearer to the patient should be remunerated. In the near future, we will be having online consultations with specialists via electronic imaging.
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Sorry, got to go... I've run out of working time
I received the NHS circular about the European working- time directive on Monday morning.
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Even in the wonderful e-world of the NHS, technology can still go wrong. There was Big Al Langlands in Birmingham all set to deliver a Powerpoint presentation to the massed health authority and trust chairs when his laptop conked out. Not a bit dismayed, the resourceful Al had the NHS ...
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10 December 1948
An explosion in an operating theatre was the subject of a question in the House of Commons to health minister Aneurin Bevan. Was he aware of the incident, said to have been due to a defective anaesthetic machine, which caused the death of a patient?
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A lot on the Christmas plate Controversial announcements get wrapped up in the seasonal confusion
Keeping busy? This week sees not only the launch of the mental health strategy, but the latest NHS league-tables, the replacement for the Patient's Charter, the tobacco white paper, a major anti-fraud initiative and more guidance for primary care groups, while for good measure the public accounts committee released its ...
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WEB WATCH
As chair of the BSE Inquiry, Sir Nicholas Phillips has an illuminating final question he asks every official witness: 'As a result of what you have learned about BSE or CJD,' he inquires, 'have you stopped eating beef?' It may say something about former health ministers that so far none ...
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League tables omit half the clinical indicators promised by ministers
Fewer than half the clinical indicators promised by ministers last year have been included in revamped NHS league tables published this week.
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Strategy 'schizophrenic' over mentally ill
Government attempts to satisfy 'middle England' and health service staff have led it to create a 'schizophrenic' mental health strategy, according to a leading policy analyst.
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Anger marks charter update
The launch of much-delayed government plans for revamping the Patient's Charter has been marred by anger among advisers asked to help develop a new document.
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Thornicroft denies 'failure' of community care
Community care has not failed, the chair of a government group developing frameworks to support the mental health strategy insisted this week.