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PALS will thrive in hard times
Most people, and certainly most journalists, assume that charities such as the College of Health and our national waiting list helpline (NWLH) love publicity. In theory, of course, we should because we can't help patients with problems unless they know we exist and we can't afford to advertise.
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Teething problems as maverick MPs get stuck into fluoride debate
'Keep it in the family, I say, ' quipped Alan Milburn as he fielded a question from Ann Winterton the other day. The Conservative MP for Congleton has been campaigning to save the heart transplant centre at Wythenshawe, Manchester, and doing it, she revealed, with the support of the MP ...
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Benefit of modifying fat consumption is 'limited'
Coincidence or a straw in the wind? In March, two of the world's leading research journals carried reports that make gloomy reading for anyone with an interest in public health. One was a systematic review of published research, the other a journalistic essay. But both pointed to quietly accumulating weaknesses ...
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The efficiency of waiting lists
'We have discovered that waiting lists to see hospital consultants are subject to the power laws of complexity. . . ' So begins a report in Nature (410: 652). For the odd reader who may, inexplicably, be unfamiliar with power laws in mathematics, they are used to describe the behaviour ...
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Golden Staph illnesses caused by resistant strains
Understanding a problem may help to solve it - but can also reveal it to be tougher than anticipated. So it is with Staphylococcus aureus, the Golden Staph: a never-ending headache for infection-control staff in hospitals, and responsible for the disruption caused by ward closures when it gets out of ...
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do not take it lying down
There is a general assumption that an 85 per cent occupancy rate represents the optimum use of NHS beds. But, says Rodney Jones, this could be the source of many a winter beds crisis
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Group dynamics
Are primary care groups and trusts doing the best they can to involve patients and the public in planning health services? Timothy Milewa and Stephen Harrison conducted a survey to find out
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Going public
From 'flower-power' to graphic design, health promotion to public health. . . Ann Dix charts a career that has been far from conventional in our new series on senior managers
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New leadership head to target stereotypes
The new head of the Leadership Centre for Health aims to 'break down the stereotypes' of different professional groups to link leadership development with improved patient care.
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PCGs confident of normal service despite calls for GPs to take action
Primary care organisations are not expecting any significant disruption to GP services next week or in the near future, despite calls for GPs to take action on 1 May and recent campaigning by the British Medical Association to cut GP workload.
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A question of style
Health secretary Alan Milburn was expected to launch theModernisation Agency this week with 'a tough speech on reform'.