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Short cuts: Hutt announces £1m anti-smoking drive for Wales
Welsh health and social services minister Jane Hutt has announced a £1m programme to implement the policies set out in the Smoking Kills white paper. A 'smokebusters' club for 9 to 11-year-olds will be set up as part of initiatives to curb smoking among children and young people. New smoking ...
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Short cuts: Union seeks a 'beefed-up role' for school nurses
The Community Practitioners' and Health Visitors' Association has called for school nurses to be given a 'beefed-up role' in preventing teenage pregnancy and drug misuse. In a consultation document drawn up with the Queen's Nursing Institute, it proposes benchmarks for cover in schools, with a three-strong team led by a ...
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Short cuts: Cocaine death trend among employed cohabitants
A trend in cocaine-related deaths has been identified by the third report from the national programme on substance abuse deaths, run by St George's Hospital Medical School. Although only 18 deaths out of 695 reported by 96 coroners' jurisdictions in England and Wales involved cocaine, 'these cases differ from the ...
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Short cuts: Cash crisis looms for military hospital services
Military hospital services are facing a cash shortage against a 'background of current clinical manpower shortages and increasing operational demands', defence chiefs have warned. In its annual business plan, the Defence Secondary Care Agency admits it has overspent its £113m budget by £2.5m last year, while it is facing a ...
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Short cuts: Sickness absence problems at 60 per cent of trusts
Sixty per cent of trusts see the level of sickness absence among staff as a problem and 86 per cent are running, or plan to run, some sort of initiative to reduce it, according to a survey of all 402 trusts in England by the Government Statistical Service. The average ...
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Short cuts: Draft quality standards for carer support issued
The King's Fund is consulting on a draft set of quality standards for local carer support services, developed by a steering group to take forward one of the recommendations of the government's national strategy, Caring About Carers. The aim is to ensure a more consistent quality of services across the ...
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Schizophrenia patients face denial of new drug treatments
People with schizophrenia could be denied modern drugs as a first-line treatment under controversial draft guidelines commissioned by the Department of Health.
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Yule remember HA's message
Cambridgeshire health authority is planning to send out 300,000 Christmas cards bearing such seasonal messages as how to cook safely, cope with a hangover and decide whether to call out an ambulance.
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Days like this
HAs demand emergency cash. . . Clarke hints at cash deal. . .Complaints system slammed. . . Private hospital 'would hit NHS recruitment'. . .
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I've started so I'll finish
He's back. The architect of the New NHS, Alan Milburn, steps into Frank Dobson's shoes as health secretary just as pressure to deliver on pledges mounts. Patrick Butler reports
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Super Cooper
A rising star, with a political CV to kill for and a very New Labour marriage, Yvette Cooper has the perfect background for Blair's ministerial team. But the public health remit may not be easy, writes Mark Crail
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The importance of being Frank
When he was appointed, few expected the outgoing health secretary to make much of the job. By and large, he has proved his critics wrong, says Patrick Butler
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You ain't seen nothing yet
Normal new year A&E preparations are small beer compared with this year's activity. But will it be enough? Laura Donnelly reports
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Round the baccy
A new centre will monitor the ways tobacco companies try to get round the ban on cigarette advertising. Barbara Millar reports
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The bottom line
Should the UK undertake a national screening programme for colorectal cancer? A new study suggests that the benefits outweigh the risks. Adam Legge investigates
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WEB WATCH
So you want to undertake a systematic review of discharge planning to find out what really works. But how do you know someone else isn't already doing the same thing? In fact, they are: details are on the National Research Register along with information about 42,000 other research projects of ...