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In Brief: Health council directive to ban tobacco advertising
The European parliament last week voted through the health council directive to ban tobacco advertising without amendment. 'This is the most important step we have taken towards reducing tobacco consumption since tobacco advertising was banned from television, ' public health minister Tessa Jowell said.
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In Brief: Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
The government should set a national target to reduce work-related illness and injury, the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy says in its response to the public health green paper, Our Healthier Nation . The CSP recommends reducing the number of days' work lost due to sickness absence by one tenth by ...
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In Brief: Seventh child infected with E coli 0157
Dorset health authority confirmed last week that a seventh child in the Purbeck district of Dorset has become infected with E coli 0157 and is being cared for at home.
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In Brief: Royal National Institute for the Blind survey results
Blind and partially sighted people over 60 face 'isolation, poverty and loneliness' on a daily basis, according to a UK-wide survey of 500 people by the Royal National Institute for the Blind. More than one in five never had a visit from social services yet many of the daily hurdles ...
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Auditors argue for housing focus to beat bed blocking
Emergency hospital admissions and bed blocking could be reduced if health authorities and local authorities tackled basic housing issues, a spending watchdog has argued.
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Senior medics vote 'no confidence' in trust chief
Senior medical staff have passed a vote of no confidence in a trust chief executive.
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WEB WATCH
Chief medical officers tend to be remembered, if they are remembered, for some concrete achievement. In the case of Sir Kenneth Calman, who retires later this year, either the Calman-Hines cancer framework or even his work on improving the lot of the junior doctor would be a fitting testament.
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It's not a letter of credit
At a stroke, health secretary Frank Dobson has removed the right of trusts to determine the pay and rations of their top teams.
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Fax and figures
Just as a row over closures and cost savings was cooling down, a minor clerical error reignited it.
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Screen hero
Whistleblower Neil Woodward brought to light serious flaws in cervical screening at Kent and Canterbury trust, yet tells Mark Gould he feels his action has made him unemployable in the NHS
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Occupied territory
Good occupational health makes financial sense, but many trusts don't realise it. Mark Crail reports
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All quiet on the front line
Managers believe performance indicators have some - limited - value. But junior doctors and other frontline staff are often ignorant of their existence. Maria Goddard and colleagues report on a study of eight hospitals