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Monitor
Monitor is delighted to bring news, not so much from the cutting edge as the ready-sliced front line of hospital catering: NHS Supplies has signed the 'first ever national contract for prepared sandwiches'. The health service spends £8m to £10m a year on its bagels, baps and bread rolls, and ...
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Unfortunate Manor
Manor House Hospital's close union links allowed it to stay independent when the NHS was formed. Now it may close. Barbara Millar reports
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The workers' friend
Manor House Healthcare can trace its roots back to September 1914, when a hospital was established in northern France to care for soldiers injured in the First World War.
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Milburn will rush in if Denham fears to tread
Long-awaited PFI guidance leaves knotty problems unresolved
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Loot is not the only route
'There is a risk that the case for pay increases will be accepted uncritically. What is needed is better management of human resources'
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WEB WATCH
When New York University chemistry professor Nadrian Seeman announced earlier this month that he had come up with a way to make a 'gene machine' out of DNA, his discovery conjured up images from the film Fantastic Voyage in which a miniaturised submarine was injected into a human body.
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Trying to stay calm in the face of an ill-informed attack on my profession
Public health specialists
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Three classic errors which serve to betray Ainsworth's ignorance
Steve Ainsworth questions the worth of public health physicians and offers us up to fill the growing gap of GPs. He makes three classic errors.
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Continuing role for us in the modernised NHS
I reject Steve Ainsworth's suggestion that there will be no role for public health doctors in the new NHS.
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Cancer and heart disease are preventable - and both are amenable to public health action
Cancer and heart disease are indeed diseases of old age, as Steve Ainsworth suggests, but he seems unaware they are both preventable and amenable to public health action. Such action is ultimately about political change outwith healthcare systems.
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Scary inaccuracy
In his frighteningly inaccurate portrayal of public health doctors, Steve Ainsworth refers to 'large numbers of full-time medics... so beloved by health authorities'. Authorities with that view no longer exist, if they ever did. Many have few, but very hard working, public health physicians providing effective medical and public health ...
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Keep your distance
Why do so many NHS staff address adult patients by their first names? Many patients do not like it, particularly elderly ones, and especially their relatives. It may be well-meaning to ask patients on admission to hospital, 'What do your friends call you?' or 'What do you like to be ...
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'Unproductive and unfulfilled'- but how nice to be the butt of management contempt at last
As I am one of his 'unproductive and unfulfilled' public health doctors, I was interested to read Steve Ainsworth's assessment of my competence.
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Water-tight debate '
Steve Ainsworth does his memory an injustice in assuming the risk of community-wide infection is past. He forgets the vital role that his public health colleagues took in publicising the health risks of water rationing proposed by Yorkshire Water when stocks ran alarmingly low a few years ago.
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Despair over cheap jibe at primary care cover during the festive season
Having been a GP in active practice for over 30 years and worked in various NHS structures trying to advance a needs-led service, I despaired at your article, 'There is a crisis. I'm not denying it' (news focus, 14 January).
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Key points
Health authorities are likely to emerge as the poor relations in the current NHS reorganisation, just as they did following the 1990 reforms.
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HAs beens?
The future for health authorities is unclear as primary care groups take on part of their role. But should they be changed or replaced? And with what?
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Panel games
The system of assessing people for long-term care homes is being subverted for financial reasons - and elderly people are suffering, says Tom Moody