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Over the threshold
Bradford combines measures of both frequency and duration of absence, with a greater weighting placed on frequency. The formula S2D, or S x S x D, is used to calculate a 'score'or 'index'for a given period, usually a rolling year, where S is the number of spells of absence, and ...
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Drinking-up time: how one hospital tackles alcohol-related attendances
At the top of every accident and emergency form at London's St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London, is a checklist of 10 conditions most likely to be alcoholrelated. These include a fall, collapse, fits, head injury, assault, self-neglect, feeling unwell, non-specific gastro-intestinal complaints, psychiatric problems, cardiac problems and just being a ...
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Borderline case
The long-awaited Welsh answer to England's NHS plan calls for a complete reorganisation - beginning with the abolition of health authorities. Tash Shifrin reports
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Keeping a sense of the whole as the parts diverge
Devolution may lead to glaring disparities in provision of care
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Democracy stripped by a layer
Abolition of Welsh HAs has thrown their staff 's lives into uncertainty
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Admissions of difficulty
The history of law in general, and the Mental Health Act in particular, tells us a lot about changing attitudes towards society's most vulnerable.
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Grim reading of Redfern encourages pathological fear of organ donation
As I type I am listening to Professor Dick van Velzen of Alder Hey Hospital fame explaining to Radio 4's To d a y that the organ donor scandal which gripped the country for much of last week was not really his fault.
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THE PERSUADERS
Name: Elizabeth Manero Job: Chair, London Health Link - the umbrella body for the capital's community health councils.
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Here's looking at you, kid
The NHS should welcome local authority scrutiny committees monitoring its services. Only politics and ignorance are preventing it from doing so, says Paul Corrigan
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Who wants to know?
Do primary care groups and trusts have the resources and opportunities to commission research? And if they do, should they, asks Bonnie Sibbald