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Some like it hotter
Extremes of cold and heat have a deleterious effect on people's health, but climate change may bring healthier winters and more sickly summers. Dominique Florin takes the temperature
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All white on the night: but not without risk
This winter's unprecedented rains and flooding inevitably raise questions about the consequences of climate change on health.
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Christmas crackers
A quintessential part of the English landscape in any season, the eccentric is loved and teased in equal measure.But David Weeks says we have reason to envy them, too - they are happier and healthier than the rest of us
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The gnome service: a place to forget your cares
Ann Atkins, a painter, started the Gnome Reserve 21 years ago, with her husband Ron, on four acres in West Putford, North Devon, writes Joanna Lyall.
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Overview but no plan
Health Care UK Autumn 2000 The King's Fund Review of Health Policy Edited by John Appleby and Anthony Harrison King's Fund 72 pages £9.99
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More questions than answers
Analysing Health Policy Edited by Alison Hann Ashgate 206 pages £37.50
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Series debut with a bit of a buzz
HSJ Monographs Evidence-based Practice By Dr Martin Dawes To order call the hotline:01483-303017 22 pages £12.99
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Mental health white paper will target patient rights
The long-awaited white paper on the Mental Health Act, due to be published on 19 December, is likely to signal a significant improvement in patients' rights - including better access to an advocate.
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Moderniser Page faces tribunal showdown
A clinical director of Northumbria Healthcare trust, whose chief executive, Sue Page, is a member of the NHS modernisation board, has resigned and is taking the trust to an employment tribunal.
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Scottish NHS plan will abolish trusts
Scotland's 28 hospital and primary care trusts are to be brought under health board control in a radical reorganisation at the heart of the Scottish health plan launched today. The move will end the purchaser-provider split in the Scottish NHS.
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Framework 'signals end of ageism'
The national service framework for elderly people, due to be published within weeks, will require the NHS to offer equal access to treatments and drugs regardless of age.
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Extra £1bn will help fund key NHS objectives
The English health service will have around £1bn of extra cash to implement the NHS plan next year, according to NHS Executive finance director Colin Reeves.
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RCN believes staff crisis will result in big pay boost
Nurses and midwives' leaders are hoping for a significant pay rise for the professions to be announced next week, in the light of a report highlighting the crisis in NHS recruitment.
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Housing services 'may be run by care trusts'
Housing services could be run by the NHS under new powers to be allocated to care trusts, it emerged last week.
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Consultant at abuse scandal hospital in new probe
A consultant psychiatrist criticised for his 'passive' role in the Garlands Hospital patient abuse scandal in North Cumbria has been suspended from his management post.