All Health Service Journal articles in 1999-11-18 – Page 2
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Winning ways on show at HSJ awards night
Betty Boothroyd, speaker of the House of Commons, plays to the camera with David Low (left) and Bryan Knight of Sandwell Healthcare trust at HSJ 's health management awards presentation.
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Life's a beach
Eweka Azubuike tries out a sandpit at the New River Green Early Years Centre on the Marquess Estate in Islington, north London, watched by health minister John Hutton, her father Chieda Azubuike, and centre management committee chair Sandra Lawrence.
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Boyd Orr: campaigner of vision
John Boyd Orr has been described as 'one of the most influential campaigners for a more healthy diet'. A nutritional physicist, born in Ayrshire in 1880, he was awarded the Military Cross at the Somme in 1916, was knighted in 1935 and won the Nobel peace prize in 1949.
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In Brief: Health information website
The government has launched a health information website aimed at 14 to 16-yearolds with advice on topics ranging from drugs and alcohol to acne. The information also ties into the national curriculum.
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In Brief: Not recalling information pack
The NHS Executive is not recalling an information pack for potential NHS board members (news, page 2, 11 November) that includes incorrect job descriptions for primary care trust board members. It will be issuing corrective guidance in December.
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Heat is on government over long-term care
The chair of the Royal Commission on Long-Term Care is to meet health secretary Alan Milburn to press for an urgent answer to its call for free personal care for elderly people.
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Quality of life 'central'
The Long-term Medical Conditions Alliance has called for quality of life for people with long-term conditions to be a 'central plank' of the government's work on greater social inclusion.
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HEA urges youths to 'be prepared' for millennium sexual climax
The Health Education Authority has launched a campaign to try to persuade young people to stock up on contraceptives ahead of the millennium.
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Conservatives' favourite wants to 'reinvent internal market' in health service
The US academic credited with thinking up the ideas behind the Conservative reforms has suggested 'one good way forward' for the NHS would be to 'reinvent the internal market'.
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Results of public consultation are widely ignored
Few public bodies actually use the results of public consultation to inform decisions about changing services, according to a study published yesterday by the Audit Commission.
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Short Cuts: Lib Dems hit out over 'sneaking rationing into NICE'
The government has been accused of 'sneaking rationing' into the remit of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence. Liberal Democrat MP Dr Evan Harris condemned the government's 'dishonesty' in amending the statutory instrument establishing NICE. The first draft of the instrument says NICE 'shall perform such functions in accordance with ...
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Days like this
NHS HQ moves to Leeds. . . Concerns at timetable for reform. . .RCN tells managers to mind their language. . . AIDS campaign delay. . .
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Inquiry finds elderly people need surgery without delays
The NHS should offer a 24-hour guarantee to elderly patients needing urgent surgery, national watchdogs have warned.
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Slow digestion
It has taken half a century, but insights into mortality from a survey on health and nutrition are finally bearing fruit, writes Barbara Millar
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