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Straw's soundbites on psychiatry don't distinguish the 'mad' from the 'bad'
Home secretary Jack Straw's pronouncements on the psychiatric profession should not be allowed to pass without significant public comment and debate.
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WHO study vindicates smokers - so can we be accommodated now?
The findings of the World Health Organisation's research into the alleged risk to non-smokers of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, recently published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, confirm what a wide range of reputable individuals and organisations have long maintained: that it in no way constitutes the ...
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The human cost of PFI
That unions have won rights to screen private finance initiative bidders' employment records is to be applauded, but what of patients?
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SNP: great intenders will produce policy, but after consultation
In her report on the Scottish National Party's People's assembly on health (News Focus, page 16, 15 October), headed 'SNP: still no policies', Barbara Millar lists SNP plans to establish an all-party Scottish healthcare commission including outsiders with expertise among its ranks, a democratic input into health boards and local ...
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Agencies should not pay for the working time directive
Your news story 'Agencies cash in on working time limit' (page 2, 22 October) misleads by using the wrong terminology. The split is not between full-time and part-time workers but between workers who are NHS employees and those who are agency employees.
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Community trusts are part of the solution for primary care in London
I congratulate Richard Lewis and the London Initiative Zone review steering group on compiling a clear and informative report on the complex LIZ programme ('LIZ: a legacy for London', pages 24-27, 1 October). The review helps redress an apparent cooling of commitment and interest by the centre towards the end ...
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monitor
A health authority chief executive who probably wishes to remain nameless reveals the latest government thinking on a new system of patient- centred PCGs. 'The core of the new system will be the establishment of patient consultative groups,' according to a secret document he has helpfully sent to Monitor. Every ...
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Professionals with a purpose
'Lengths of stay and waiting lists are ideal measurements, easy to count and to change; kindness and caring are virtually impossible to identify or to measure, so they have largely disappeared from the NHS lexicon'
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heading to come
We've got the picture now, thanks to a flood of reports from or about the government: children need looking after better than we've managed lately. Yet we're still in a terrible muddle. Like those harrowing photos we always see in Armistice Week, the victims often end up in hospital, jail ...
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Short cuts Patients bring in duvets as hospital bedding runs out
Stand clear: heart surgeon Francis Wells at work, pictured in one of a series of photographs taken during a single week. The pictures form one of three exhibitions linking art and medicine on show at Buckingham- shire Art Gallery until 6 December. Paintings depicting stages of breast cancer and work ...
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Short cuts Long-term conditions group wins £170,000 grant
The Long-term Medical Conditions Alliance has been awarded nearly £170,000 by the national lottery to support development work with member organisations, one third of whom rely on volunteers and trustees to keep running. The grant is for three years.
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Short cuts Community nurses can reach socially excluded
Community nurses can reach socially excluded people who can't be reached by other health services, according to King's Fund chief executive Rabbi Julia Neuberger. 'They can provide quality healthcare to homeless people, travelling families and refugees - many of whom have little contact with mainstream health services until they become ...
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Short cuts Hutchinson takes chair of fatigue syndrome group
Professor Allen Hutchinson, director of public health at Sheffield University's school of health, is to chair the government's working group on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, which was announced in July. It will produce advice on clinical management of the illness. There will also be a sub-group on children.
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Short cuts Nursing home set up to replace long-stay hospital
Edinburgh Healthcare trust is investing £1m in setting up a 16-bed nursing home in the grounds of Corstorphine Hospital. It will be run and staffed by the NHS and will provide accommodation for people with learning disabilities who are moving out of Gogarburn Hospital, which is due to close in ...
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Short cuts Pain federation highlights £193m back problems
Five million people suffer back pain in the UK, costing the NHS £193m a year to treat, members of the European Parliament heard at a launch by the European Federation of Pain Societies last week. The federation has drawn up guidelines for effective pain management and wants more statistics on ...
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Short cuts Food safety report recommends better surveillance
Improved surveillance and reporting of food-borne viral infection, and good hygiene practice, are recommended in a report from the Department of Health and Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food.
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Short cuts Coventry HA boosts health promotion pharmacists
Coventry health authority has launched a public awareness campaign on the health promotion role of community pharmacists. It will encourage the public to seek advice from pharmacists on a wide range of issues, including medicines, minor ailments, healthy eating, sexual health, physical activity and giving up smoking. The HA points ...
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Short cuts Travel bursary launched for trainee respiratory staff
Trainee respiratory staff are being offered bursaries of £750 towards the cost of attending next year's European Respiratory Society conference in Madrid, or the American Thoracic Society conference in California. Details from Sheila Edwards, chief executive, British Thoracic Society, 6th floor, North Wing, New Garden House, 78 Hatton Garden, London ...
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Short cuts Patients at a Scottish hospital
Patients at a Scottish hospital have been asked to bring in their own quilts and duvets during their stay after management admitted running out of bed linen. Staff at Hairmyres Hospital in East Kilbride had to phone patients who were about to be admitted and ask them if they could ...