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Report made mischief out of reflections on the past
Your news story on In The Public Interest was at best mischievous, and at worst downright malevolent. The report rightly reflects on how community health councils need to look again at our role, and recognises that we need to be revitalised. Its suggestions are worthy of serious debate and discussion.
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Organ transplantation is a remarkable success story. An end-stage renal-failure patient lucky enough to receive a transplant can now anticipate many years of good-quality life.
Organ transplantation is a remarkable success story. An end-stage renal-failure patient lucky enough to receive a transplant can now anticipate many years of good-quality life, and the switch from dialysis will reduce NHS spending on them by well over 50,000.
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Planning for career change should be part of manager training
Christine Adams' article has a familiar ring. How many people finding themselves at the wrong end of any aspect of organisational change would share these emotions? And with all the NHS changes taking place, will our planning automatically cover all the issues that may be directly affecting individuals?
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Trauma without crisis
Reorganising consultant rotas has brought dramatic improvements to trauma management in one trust. Mark Gammage and Mike Taylor explain
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A breath of fresh air
More people working in healthcare are moving into the voluntary sector, where they are given more autonomy than in the NHS, writes Lynn Eaton
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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 ...