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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.
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We won't lie back and accept this 'hypothetical' argument: where's the data on buying beds?
I was concerned to read Peter Cave and Leonora Descombe's article ('Slow on the uptake', pages 30-31, 30 April), and even more so when they claimed it to be hypothetical.
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Ministers double cash in sop to mental health policy critics
Ministers moved to head off further criticism of their controversial policy of ending care in the community this week by doubling the money on offer to create alternative services.
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Purchasers and providers in battle for 'unified' Confederation chair
Senior figures from both sides of the health service's purchaser- provider divide are set to contest next month's election to appoint
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Lighthouse wins fight for building
The London Lighthouse charity for people with HIV and AIDS has won its battle to stay in its purpose-built premises in Notting Hill, west London. But its residential services will close at the end of September.
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HA chief executives will be given tough powers to ensure PCGs keep in line
Health authority chief executives are to have tough powers to hold primary care groups to account, according to draft guidance seen by HSJ.
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Concrete issues
Gems or carbuncles? In the second of three articles, Ann Dix reports on the rise and fall of some of the pioneering hospital buildings of the 1960s and 1970s
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Worth preserving?
When Wexham Park Hospital (above) was proposed for grade two listing, hospital managers were not the only ones to react with horror. 'Gems or carbuncles?' screamed the Daily Express in February 1996 when the proposed post-war listings were announced: 'Concrete from 60s on list of treasures.' And under a photo ...
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'It was the wrong time for beautiful architecture'
Completed in 1970, Northwick Park Hospital (above) was too late to be included in English Heritage's listing proposals, but it may be singled out next time. If so, it is bound to cause consternation. For the building is universally regarded as an ugly concrete sprawl, even though it has proved ...
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Written off 'Rolls-Royce'
In the mid-1980s, Greenwich District Hospital looked as if it had a future. The 1960s building was due to be redeveloped, allowing specialist services to move from neighbouring hospitals. Plans included a tunnel link to new buildings over the road, moving car parking to the roof and reducing reliance on ...