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Dear Mel. . .
What exactly is this Nyebevan thing people keep talking about in the NHS ? What did it do and why is it important ?
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Trusts' debts threaten Scottish acute review
Implementation of reviews of acute services across Scotland may be threatened by the escalating debt faced by many trusts.
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Bill 'should increase openness'
Local government scrutiny of the NHS is set to bring more health service information into the public domain, MPs heard last week.
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Days like this
The future of the government's waiting-list initiative is in doubt because of a row over how the £35m for 1991-92 is to be spent. Crisis talks are taking place between health minister Virginia Bottomley and John Yates of Birmingham University, who heads a project targeting the NHS's worst lists. He ...
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The age of consent
How well-founded are fears that the Redfern report on Alder Hey will produce a raft of new procedures and regulations that will hamper vital clinical research? Thelma Agnew reports
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Join the club
Doctors agree that the GMC's old-boy network image must go. But they are arguing about how to achieve this, as Mark Gould explains
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Ill effects
Software for the NHS's new integrated payroll and human resources system is set to include a controversial 'scoring'system that some say drives staff to work when they are ill. Chris Gallagher reports
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Hic hic hooray
The government may at last be getting somewhere with its national strategy on alcohol misuse - but what are A&E staff already doing to manage the problems they encounter? Lynn Eaton reports
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Over the threshold
Bradford combines measures of both frequency and duration of absence, with a greater weighting placed on frequency. The formula S2D, or S x S x D, is used to calculate a 'score'or 'index'for a given period, usually a rolling year, where S is the number of spells of absence, and ...
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Drinking-up time: how one hospital tackles alcohol-related attendances
At the top of every accident and emergency form at London's St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London, is a checklist of 10 conditions most likely to be alcoholrelated. These include a fall, collapse, fits, head injury, assault, self-neglect, feeling unwell, non-specific gastro-intestinal complaints, psychiatric problems, cardiac problems and just being a ...
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Borderline case
The long-awaited Welsh answer to England's NHS plan calls for a complete reorganisation - beginning with the abolition of health authorities. Tash Shifrin reports
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Keeping a sense of the whole as the parts diverge
Devolution may lead to glaring disparities in provision of care
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Democracy stripped by a layer
Abolition of Welsh HAs has thrown their staff 's lives into uncertainty
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Admissions of difficulty
The history of law in general, and the Mental Health Act in particular, tells us a lot about changing attitudes towards society's most vulnerable.
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Grim reading of Redfern encourages pathological fear of organ donation
As I type I am listening to Professor Dick van Velzen of Alder Hey Hospital fame explaining to Radio 4's To d a y that the organ donor scandal which gripped the country for much of last week was not really his fault.
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THE PERSUADERS
Name: Elizabeth Manero Job: Chair, London Health Link - the umbrella body for the capital's community health councils.