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Fast off the blocks
Making sense of the new NHS white paper By Mark Baker Radcliffe 143 pages 15
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Choice of controlling, caring or changing
Mental health nursing and social control By Peter Morrall Whurr 164 pages 16.50
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A look at litigation fair and square
General practice employment handbook By Norman Ellis Radcliffe 184 pages 16.50
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Monitor
Monitor is concerned for the health of cycling aficionados Lord Hunt, Peter Homa and Bob Abberley. But how to raise it with them (if that's not an unhappy turn of phrase)? The summer issue of One in Ten, the Impotence Association newsletter, arrives with a warning that riding a bicycle ...
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Take your partners
Health action zones have begun to set up partnerships in their local communities. Mark Gould finds out who is doing what
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Who's who in health action zones
Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham Has appointed Liz Sayce from Mind as HAZ director. 'Her experience in mental health will be invaluable in helping solve some of the most pressing social exclusion problems.'
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Share and share alike
Money for tackling waiting lists was supposed to be targeted only at 'imaginative and effective' schemes. Patrick Butler queries the methodology
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Walls of ignorance?
Without national guidelines for the treatment of prisoners with HIV/AIDS, many are not receiving, or not complying with, combination drug therapy. Barbara Millar reports
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Protocol progress
Littlehay Prison, Cambridgeshire, is one example of good practice. It has had an HIV policy committee for two years, with local clinical nurse specialist and communicable diseases specialist representatives. Chair is Stuart Copping, a senior healthcare officer at the prison. It has drawn up a protocol to ensure that any ...
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Answers that give rise to another set of questions Despite forthcoming guidance on primary care groups, anomalies remain
The greater detail due to be set out in guidance on primary care groups within a matter of weeks - and reported in HSJ's news pages this week - suggests that ministers and civil servants have listened and taken on board many of the concerns voiced by the NHS (see ...
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Which way lies the third way?
Musings about the 'third way' fill the pages of practically every publication that regards itself as a serious shaper of political debate and public policy. Similarly, the websites of the newish, brash centre- left think tanks are bloated with postings on the third way, accumulated through e-mail policy seminars. The ...
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WEB WATCH
It has probably already become inevitable that the new National Institute for Clinical Excellence will have its own website on which to set out all the good things that people can and should be doing. But what about the Commission for Health Improvement? Will it engage in virtual naming and ...
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Young Lochinvar holds firm in reshuffle outreach
Saturday night was better than Sunday night last weekend. I spent Sunday (lovely weather, so they tell me) in the dark and windowless room I share with eight others in the Palace of Westminster, trying to predict Tony Blair's reshuffle.
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Monitoring quality and clinical performance Whistleblowers must make approach to regulatory bodies themselves
You reported my recent appearance before the House of Commons public administration committee (News Focus, page 12-13, 16 July). It must have been in a parallel universe: the meeting I attended was very different.
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Audit Commission considers quality and patient's view as well as efficiency
Kieran Walshe's thought-provoking piece on the NHS Executive consultation paper on quality (Open Space, pages 18-19, 9 July) states that 'the establishment of the Commission for Health Improvement can also be seen as an implicit criticism of the Audit Commission for failing to tackle issues of clinical performance and sticking ...
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Police, not hospitals, should press charges in cases of attacks on staff
You report the Lord Chancellor's recommendation that magistrates should impose appropriately tough sentences on people found guilty of attacking health workers (News, page 6, 25 June).
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Armless amusement
With reference to Monitor's comment on the King's Fund's 'dead sloth' logo (page 64, 25 June), the creature is obviously trying to puzzle out why it has three legs and one arm, and wondering how this can be part of a quality service.
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Complementary care is rising in the health service on a tide of half truths
It appears from your News Focus on 'integrated health care' (page 16, 4 June) that this term is being advanced to cover a concoction of orthodox and complementary medicine.