All Health Service Journal articles in 1999-10-21
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Short cuts: Hutt announces £1m anti-smoking drive for Wales
Welsh health and social services minister Jane Hutt has announced a £1m programme to implement the policies set out in the Smoking Kills white paper. A 'smokebusters' club for 9 to 11-year-olds will be set up as part of initiatives to curb smoking among children and young people. New smoking ...
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NI fundholding to continue until 2001
GP fundholding is to be extended in Northern Ireland 'at least until April 2001' because of the political vacuum caused by the failure to set up a devolved assembly.
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Short cuts: Sickness absence problems at 60 per cent of trusts
Sixty per cent of trusts see the level of sickness absence among staff as a problem and 86 per cent are running, or plan to run, some sort of initiative to reduce it, according to a survey of all 402 trusts in England by the Government Statistical Service. The average ...
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You ain't seen nothing yet
Normal new year A&E preparations are small beer compared with this year's activity. But will it be enough? Laura Donnelly reports
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Short cuts: Cocaine death trend among employed cohabitants
A trend in cocaine-related deaths has been identified by the third report from the national programme on substance abuse deaths, run by St George's Hospital Medical School. Although only 18 deaths out of 695 reported by 96 coroners' jurisdictions in England and Wales involved cocaine, 'these cases differ from the ...
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Call for annual reports on Saving Lives white paper
The UK Public Health Association has called for annual public health reports on the strategy in the Saving Lives white paper.
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Round the baccy
A new centre will monitor the ways tobacco companies try to get round the ban on cigarette advertising. Barbara Millar reports
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Beds installed in boardroom as wards fill up
An unexplained jump in patient demand in west London has forced managers to commandeer the boardroom at Ealing Hospital as a ward for the next four weeks.
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Short cuts: Union seeks a 'beefed-up role' for school nurses
The Community Practitioners' and Health Visitors' Association has called for school nurses to be given a 'beefed-up role' in preventing teenage pregnancy and drug misuse. In a consultation document drawn up with the Queen's Nursing Institute, it proposes benchmarks for cover in schools, with a three-strong team led by a ...
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The importance of being Frank
When he was appointed, few expected the outgoing health secretary to make much of the job. By and large, he has proved his critics wrong, says Patrick Butler
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Trust's ex-chair rejects damning report as 'biased and inaccurate'
The former chair of Eastbourne Hospitals trust has launched a scathing counter-attack on a regional review that criticised the trust's 'autocratic, centralist and controlling' management style.
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Board officials face calls to stand down
Tayside health board officials are facing calls for their resignation from campaigners opposed to the closure of Stracathro Hospital in Brechin.
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The bottom line
Should the UK undertake a national screening programme for colorectal cancer? A new study suggests that the benefits outweigh the risks. Adam Legge investigates