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Last chance to resuscitate IHSM
Radical action is only hope institute has of seeing in its 100th birthday
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WEB WATCH MARK CRAIL
When the Foreign Office barred diplomats from attending beanos and booze-ups sponsored by the tobacco industry earlier this month, noted anti-smoker and health secretary Frank Dobson was naturally on hand to welcome the move as 'yet another example of us translating words into action'.
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Paid cover for union reps has worked for us
We read with interest the news item about paid cover for union reps being considered by the government (page 2, 6 May).
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Only 60 new jobs as counter-fraud unit starts
I read with interest your news story 'Counter-fraud teams bring hundreds of jobs' (news, page 5, 29 April).
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Advice from rich man in Roller is not welcome
Don't trust a man who drives a Roller to advise how to make a Morris Minor go faster. Roy Lilley (letters, 13 May) has ideas which are both good and original, 'but those which are good are not original, and those which are original are not good'.
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How can podiatrists be regulated by other professions?
Carol Harris's article, 'Toeing the line', (pages 24-25, 15 April) failed to express the concerns of the individual professions allied to medicine about the Health Bill. Current ministerial assurances to PAMs on retaining self-regulation are disinformation: self-regulation of the individual professions is not being proposed. State-registered professions that are currently ...
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We're no HAS beens - we're here and busy
David Hunter makes reference to 'the Health Advisory Service' in terms which could be interpreted as critical and convey an impression that the organisation is no longer active or influential ('Live from Leeds', 6 May).
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Research aims to define equity and where the worst inequities apply
It is interesting to read of progress with health improvement initiatives and health action zones.
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Key points
High-quality, dedicated management support was crucial to the GP commissioning pilots.
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Rating of IT arrangements (August to October 1998)
Interviewees were asked to rate IT arrangements using a 1-5 scale.
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Key points
A system for calculating the cost of clinical audits in terms of money and staff time has been in operation at Brighton Health Care trust since 1995.
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Money talks: the price of a clinical audit department
To calculate the hourly cost per person in the clinical audit department, we divide the total pay and non-pay annual cost of running the department (£156,878 in 1997-98) by the total person hours available each year (12,316 in 1997-98) to provide an hourly cost per person (£12.74 for 1997-98).