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Decline and Fall
Decline and fall Despite recruitment drives, figures show the numbers of nurses, midwives and health visitors are still falling. And they're getting older, writes Barbara Millar
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Misconduct proved: 93 axed from register
The UKCC'; professional conduct statistics show that 93 nurses, midwives or health visitors were removed from the register in 1998-99, and a further 34 were cautioned about their conduct.
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Blairs pledge rests soundly on funding through taxation
But many questions remain about when and what extra cash will appear
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Vaccine and not heard
Some claim the shortage of childhood vaccines is due to the drug companies monopoly. The real reason is lack of political priority
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Its a case of Come round to my gaffe
For a bumbling amateur politician, Robert Winston seems to have done remarkably well in persuading Gordon Brown to open his cheque book. Indeed, his performance reminded me of one of those pre-war cartoons by Bateman.
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Room for improvement
Patients treated in good surroundings rate their treatment and staff more highly than those seen in old buidlings. Bryan Lawson and Michael Phiri report
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Design counsel
When I was an art student in the early 1960s, I fell ill with meningitis which developed into ME, and I was admitted to my local hospital for several weeks. The ward was a Nightingale design in a wartime hut and the regime represented excellent care. The responsibility for this ...
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The deals on the bus go round and round
Fifteen trusts co-operated in an imaginative attempt to encourage former NHS nurses to return to work, and the results exceeded organisers expectations. Bernadette Duguid explains
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Lotto bother
Launched in 1998, the healthy living centre is a government initiative designed to encourage health-promoting activities in disadvantaged communities. The definition of health here is broad and includes the wider determinants of health, such as social exclusion, quality of life, environment and access to services.