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Unit pricing: public funding of genetics research
The Public Health Genetics Unit was established in Cambridge in 1997 because it was clear that, generally, public health doctors and policymakers were ignorant of the sciences of genetics and molecular biology, and their public health and policy implications.
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Taking aim: the PHGU
To keep abreast of developments in molecular and clinical genetics, and their ethical, legal, social and public health implications.
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REFERENCES
1 Genetics Research Advisory Group. A First Report to the NHS Central Research and Development Committee on the New Genetics. Department of Health, 1995.
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monitor
Monitor has been much struck of late by Joe McCrae's charming new persona. Whisper who dares, but sources (as we journos put it) suggest that Dobbo's formidable enforcer may have gone just a little bit native down in Whitehall. Perhaps he has been reading his job description. It is a ...
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'Astonished' MP pushes for cancer register
The government would regularly review NHS cancer care, and publish performance statistics for cancer centres - including survival rates - under a bill proposed by Labour backbencher Paul Marsden.
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in brief
The public sector ombudsman system is to be reviewed to examine the scope for a more 'joined-up' approach to dealing with complaints from the public, said Cabinet Office minister Jack Cunningham. It will consider whether current arrangements in England 'are in the best interests of complainants' and whether the service ...
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WEB WATCH MARK CRAIL
Whatever became of health action zones? Since most exist almost entirely in the collective imaginations of their partner organisations ('early days yet to see results... process of building partnerships takes time...'), they are perhaps the ultimate in NHS virtual reality - and therefore natural web entities.
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Carers' support for NICE should not be taken for granted
I agree with you that the National Institute for Clinical Excellence still has a long way to go before there can be real change (Comment, 8 April).
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'Smart card' security bid
Ten hospitals are piloting a 'smart card' that would allow NHS employers to check the complete occupational health history and any police record of potential employees.
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Residential homes to get regulatory body
The Welsh Office has announced the launch of a regulatory body for nursing and residential homes in a white paper on the future of social services.