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Our growing inequalities
THE PUBLIC HEALTH GREEN PAPER ACKNOWLEDGES THE LINK BETWEEN POVERTY AND ILL HEALTH - SO SHOULD WEALTH REDISTRIBUTION BE VIEWED AS A HEALTH TARGET FOR THE FUTURE WHITE PAPER, ASKS JOHN APPLEBY
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Barbara Kennedy
Barbara Kennedy (above), previously chief executive of Leicestershire Mental Health Service trust, has been appointed chief executive of North West Anglia Healthcare trust, where she first worked as a director in 1990.
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Harry Keen Pocket profile:
Genial academic medic and doughty campaigner. Distinguished career at St Mary's, Paddington, and Guy's hospitals. World expert
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Calling a bed a bed
When patients, carers and the secretary of state all plead for plain English why does the NHS insist on incomprehensible
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What they said - NHS gobbledygook
The most frequently quoted example came from the value-for-money unit of the NHS directorate at the Welsh Office. It described a bed as 'a device or arrangement that may be used to permit a patient to lie down when the need to do so is a consequence of the patient's ...
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Plain English Crystal Mark holders include:
Argyll and Bute trust, Central Middlesex Hospital trust, Derbyshire Royal Infirmary, Dumfries and Galloway health board, East and Midlothian trust, Fife health board, Gloucestershire Royal trust, Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster health authority, Lifespan Healthcare trust (Cambridge), Borders General Hospital, Cental Manchester Healthcare trust, Down Lisburn Health and Social Services trust, ...
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Clarity begins at home
Presenting health service information in the language ordinary people speak and listening to public feedback will do much to improve communication, says Hilary Spiers reports
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Key Points
The NHS's failure to use plain English is a long-standing and widely acknowledged problem.
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The home team
A trust's reorganisation of mental health services for elderly people led to a dramatic decrease in
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Key Points
Reorganising a mental health service for elderly people to ensure most care can be given in the client's home has led to a dramatic decrease in admissions.
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REFERENCES
1 Goudie F, Stokes G. The Community Assessment Project. Unpublished report for Coventry Health Authority, 1990.
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IN BRIEF
A report of an inquiry into allegations that senior managers at Tayside health board made 'irregular and possibly unlawful payments' of more than pounds200,000 has been passed to the Procurator Fiscal and the Crown Office. They are expected to decide within two weeks whether to start legal proceedings against individuals. ...
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Expert tells GPs to recruit high-paid chiefs for PCGs
GPs must recruit high-paid, high-powered chief executives to run primary care groups or watch them founder, a top health policy analyst warned last week.
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Officials accused over complaint
Two Scottish trust officials have been accused of pressurising a patient to withdraw a complaint of sexual malpractice against a consultant gynaecologist.
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Police surgeon service needs 'urgent' updating
The Audit Commission has called for 'urgent modernisation' of the police surgeon service.
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London Ambulance suspends two managers after sackings tribunal
London Ambulance Service trust has suspended two managers following an industrial tribunal finding in favour of two workers sacked after a damning report by the managers into their conduct.
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Health secretary Frank Dobson
Health secretary Frank Dobson, addressing the annual dinner of the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee this week, was apparently stung by criticism by one of the guests that he was boring. The committee named West Sussex health authority non-executive Knighton Berry as the culprit. He was unavailable for comment as the ...
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Scots doctors divided on centralisation
Scottish doctors' views about whether services should be concentrated into bigger hospitals vary according to the type of hospital they work in and where they are based.