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Benefit of modifying fat consumption is 'limited'
Coincidence or a straw in the wind? In March, two of the world's leading research journals carried reports that make gloomy reading for anyone with an interest in public health. One was a systematic review of published research, the other a journalistic essay. But both pointed to quietly accumulating weaknesses ...
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The efficiency of waiting lists
'We have discovered that waiting lists to see hospital consultants are subject to the power laws of complexity. . . ' So begins a report in Nature (410: 652). For the odd reader who may, inexplicably, be unfamiliar with power laws in mathematics, they are used to describe the behaviour ...
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Golden Staph illnesses caused by resistant strains
Understanding a problem may help to solve it - but can also reveal it to be tougher than anticipated. So it is with Staphylococcus aureus, the Golden Staph: a never-ending headache for infection-control staff in hospitals, and responsible for the disruption caused by ward closures when it gets out of ...
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do not take it lying down
There is a general assumption that an 85 per cent occupancy rate represents the optimum use of NHS beds. But, says Rodney Jones, this could be the source of many a winter beds crisis
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Group dynamics
Are primary care groups and trusts doing the best they can to involve patients and the public in planning health services? Timothy Milewa and Stephen Harrison conducted a survey to find out
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Going public
From 'flower-power' to graphic design, health promotion to public health. . . Ann Dix charts a career that has been far from conventional in our new series on senior managers
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New leadership head to target stereotypes
The new head of the Leadership Centre for Health aims to 'break down the stereotypes' of different professional groups to link leadership development with improved patient care.
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PCGs confident of normal service despite calls for GPs to take action
Primary care organisations are not expecting any significant disruption to GP services next week or in the near future, despite calls for GPs to take action on 1 May and recent campaigning by the British Medical Association to cut GP workload.
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A question of style
Health secretary Alan Milburn was expected to launch theModernisation Agency this week with 'a tough speech on reform'.
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Senior chief quits to escape NHS pressures
One of Scotland's most senior health service managers is the latest to quit the NHS front line in an attempt to get a better work-life balance.
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Fox pledge to banish 'postcode lottery'
Shadow health secretary Dr Liam Fox has described health authorites as a 'bureaucratic burden' - and promised an end to the 'postcode lottery' of treatment should his party win the election.
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The Department of Health aims to double the number of registered organ donors from 8 million to 16 million by 2010. A set of 'initial targets'out for wider consultation later this year also include increasing the kidney transplant rate by almost 100 per cent by 2005 and boosting heart and ...
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£1bn investment targets 'not achievable'
The government's £1bn investment plans for primary care premises are unworkable and cannot be achieved within the timescale set, according to a national survey of GPs and managers reported exclusively in HSJ.
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Wheels within wheels - the workings of NHS LIFT
The complex structure of the public-private company NHS LIFT became further confused this week when the Department of Health announced that it would form 'a joint-venture company, 'Natco', to deliver investment in the primary healthcare sector through NHS LIFT.
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Deputy's suspension 'linked to court case'
The suspension of the deputy chief executive of Ashworth highsecurity hospital is understood to relate to a forthcoming court case involving a former senior manager at the hospital, according to HSJ sources.