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THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PHARMACISTS AND VETS
Unison's Karen Jennings (News Focus, page 13, 15 January) should read the Medicines Act again and more carefully. Not only can pharmacists prescribe according to their own judgement, but what they prescribe does not even have to be licensed by the Medicines Control Agency.
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GETTING THE FIGURES STRAIGHTENED OUT
An error crept into my article 'Home truths' (pages 30-31, 15 January). It should read:
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BY ALAN MAYNARD Happy days are here again
'Many GPs seem to see the white paper as a triumph of primary care over the rest of the NHS and the creation of a new nirvana for them. Sorry comrades - this is the beginning of the management of primary care within a cash-limited budget'
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Brown bides his time as Hancock stakes her claim BY MICHAEL WHITE
Right. Before we start on real life, what do Bill Clinton's Zippergate problems have to do with America's recurring healthcare crisis? A great deal, according to Gore Vidal, novelist, East Coast grandee and critic of what he tends to see as the new Roman Empire.
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WEB WATCH
With the Devolution Bill now through its second reading and a site chosen for the Scottish Parliament, progress towards self rule is advancing apace. And nowhere more so than in the health service, for which the Designed to Care white paper maps out a future very different from that south ...
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America on the line
Telephone advice lines run by nurses have long existed in the US, but the growing use of them is proving unpopular with patients.
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Key Points
The growth of telephone advice lines has been partly driven by managed care schemes, keen to reduce use of health services.
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Clinicians will get a major role in Scot tish reforms
Clinicians are to be given a major role in reshaping health services in the first detailed plan implementing the government's white paper reforms in Scotland.
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Fund GPs pull out in protest at Labour plan
A Berkshire practice is thought to be the first to pull out of the fundholding scheme in protest at the Labour government's health reforms.
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on the record
DONALD REID is the chief executive of the Association for Public Health. He was previously executive director of the Health Education Authority, specialising in programmes for youth and smoking prevention. He is an international consultant on tobacco control strategies.
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In person
London Ambulance Service trust has appointed its first medical director. Fionna Moore (above), an accident and emergency consultant at Charing Cross and Hammersmith hospitals, will be working for LAS two days a week and providing clinical guidance on patient care. LAS has also promoted Wendy Foers to the post of ...
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All-party group will promote primary care and public health
A 30-strong parliamentary group led by two GPs and a former NHS manager has been set up to promote the interests of primary care and public health.
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Milburn gets new 'eyes and ears'
Salford people are blessed with 'courage, determination, wit and compassion, and... an unrivalled ability to see through falseness and to expose insincerity', said the city's Labour MP, Hazel Blears, in her maiden speech last May.
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Jowell ministers to European agenda
Public health minister Tessa Jowell has outlined plans for taking forward Europe-wide public health issues as part of the UK's six-month presidency of the European Union.
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Sing le-trust consultation process condemned by CHCs
Critics of plans to create a single ambulance trust in Wales have issued a declaration of no confidence in the consultation process, which ended this week.