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Emma Dent's Malawi diary - day 1
International overnight flights should have been banned under the Geneva Convention. The 15-hour journey from Heathrow to Kamuzu airport, with a dash across Johannesburg airport to catch a connecting flight, was my first flight either outside Europe or lasting more than four hours. Although the tiny time difference means that ...
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Emma Dent's Malawi diary - day 2
An early start today. Contrary to my preconceptions about laid back African living, Malawi seems to be an early to bed early to rise kind of place; perhaps not surprisingly when it goes dark (and by dark I mean pitch black as there are no street lights; even city dwellers ...
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Emma Dent's Malawi diary - day 3
At breakfast in the hotel we are joined by Alex, a freelance journalist who used to work as a media officer for Oxfam after being a journalist and returned to the third estate a few years ago. (He was once a war correspondent after starting out as an arts writer ...
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Emma Dent's Malawi diary - day 4
I am woken at dawn by the muezzin from the Lilongwe mosque and prevented from getting back to sleep by the cleaners, whose stockroom is on the same floor, not long after starting work with a great deal of bucket clattering..
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Emma Dent's Malawi diary - day 5
This morning we head in different directions; we say goodbye to Claire as she heads home and Alex and Abbey go back to Bwaila to sweet talk its management into letting them take photos there, Karen and I to meet the Water Employees Trade Union.
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Emma Dent's Malawi diary - day 6
Before the flight Karen and I have time to go for a walk into Lilongwe, round the central market (just as busy, noisy and chaotic as London's Petticoat Lane market and selling the same hotch potch of goods) and do some shopping. I buy wooden bowls, pottery made in Dedza, ...
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Heart surgery survival rates available online
Parents and carers of children with congenital heart disease can now access detailed information about the survival rates at every specialist heart centre in the UK via a website launched today.
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Former NHS chief heads disability inquiry
Former chief executive of Guy's and St Thomas' foundation trust Sir Jonathan Michael is to chair an independent inquiry into access to healthcare for people with learning disabilities, health secretary Patricia Hewitt has announced. The investigation follows charity Mencap's March report into the death of six people with learning disabilities.
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New guidance to support parents with learning disabilities
The Department of Health has today published good practice guidance on how children's and adults' services should improve joint working to deliver more support for parents with learning disabilities.
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NHS 'should be like the BBC'
The NHS should be run as an independent 'corporation', similar to the BBC, a former NHS chief executive has proposed. Brian Edwards, emeritus professor of healthcare development at Sheffield University, suggests seven options for removing the NHS from political control in the new Nuffield Trust report.
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Successful commissioning suppliers announced
The Department of Health is today due to publish the full list of suppliers eligible to provide primary care trusts' commissioning and managerial services under its framework for procuring external support for commissioners.
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Letter sets out ophthalmics' loss of earnings arrangements
The Department of Health has sent out a letter detailing payments for loss of earnings for optometrists and ophthalmic medical practitioners who have attended training.It also gives the 2006 level of payment, which is due to be handed out this year.Click here to read the letter
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Staff cuts in social care 'not affecting patients'
The overall number social services staff has dropped in England but care has not suffered, according to figures from researchers at the Information Centre for health and social care.However, the number of social workers employed by local councils increased in 2006, compared with 2005.
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Anti-smoking drug gains NICE backing
A drug that helps smokers quit their habit has been approved in draft guidelines by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence.Champix is recommended for people who have expressed a desire to quit smoking and should normally be prescribed alongside behavioural support.Click here for more details
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New details on one-stop-shop for health data
The Department of Health has issued more information on a new one-stop-shop for health data to professional executive committees.The letter to PEC chairs describes the new service, NHS Choices, as 'a dynamic web-based service using the latest technology'.It will be launched this summer and accessed via a website.Click here to ...
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Primary care trusts charged with rewriting £300m script
The National Audit Office has urged primary care trusts.to use generic medicines to save money. Oliver Evans hears from the leaders who will be expected to drive the savings in the milieu of restructuring and inform GP prescribing behaviour right down the line
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Guy's denies pathology plans go against guidance
Guy's and St Thomas' foundation trust has denied claims by the union Unite that it is attempting to privatise its pathology services against Department of Health guidance.
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Health secretary should not interfere in redesign decisions, report finds
The secretary of state for health should be removed from decisions about hospital reconfigurations, the Institute for Public Policy Research has said.
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Joint working is key to cash fight, says social care boss
Health and social care must work more closely together to provide a health service fit for the future, according to the president of the newly formed Association of Directors of Adult Social Services.
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Monitor takes tougher line to prepare for wave of FT plans
Applying for foundation trust status is to become tougher as regulator Monitor responds to an expected rise in acquisitions and mergers and deters 'overly ambitious applications'.