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Future of health promotion specialists lies in passing on our expertise to professional groups
Jeff French's optimistic enthusiasm for health promotion in the current NHS environment is to be welcomed (Career Profile, 19 November). However, we must be cautious about what can be done via the health promotion specialist. I have no doubt about our skill-mix and professional competence, but we are few in ...
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Making a drama out of a crisis
A dedicated band of volunteers is prepared to put itself through everything from a suicide attempt to a bus crash to help first-aiders and hospitals hone their skills.
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From the Blitz to peace time: victim culture
The Casualties Union was founded during the second world war by Eric Claxton, an engineer involved in civil defence. He set up a training centre in a bombed-out convent to enable rescue workers to practise on 'casualties' before being sent out to deal with real victims of the Blitz. After ...
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Nurse, the screens
The latest films could soon be showing at a hospital near you under a scheme to bring the silver screen into the health service. Barbara Millar asks what managers would recommend
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Classic clips: 'When I started, any film would do'
More than 50 years ago, Reginald Broom, group engineer at Salisbury Infirmary, was involved in hiring films, according to hospital archives. Cuttings from the time reveal that as far back as the late 1940s, Mr Broom was renting films from MGM to show to long-stay patients in hospital.
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Prescribing a touch of interdiscipline for GPs
Parliamentary attacks on the medical establishment are not rare these days. But few have the insight to berate the profession for its scientific ignorance as Ian Gibson, Labour MP for Norwich North and resident Commons medical science whizz, has done.
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Call to toughen up regulation of private sector
MPs have raised the prospect of changes to the way standards of healthcare in the private and independent sector are monitored, and complaints investigated.
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NHS bodies invited to bid for military centre of excellence
Defence secretary George Robertson is to ask health authorities and trusts to bid for a 'centre of excellence' in military medicine.
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Social exclusion challenge issued
The government has been challenged to adopt a set of 46 indicators as an independent means of monitoring progress in tackling social exclusion.
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Treasury unveils 'contract for renewal' details
Details of the 'contract for renewal' agreed with the Treasury in return for the NHS's comprehensive spending review settlement were due to be unveiled today.
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Fury over 'sectarian' PCG advice to GPs
Serious conflict has arisen between the NHS Confederation and the British Medical Association over a booklet telling GPs how to maximise their gain from primary care groups.
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Angry Milburn defends PFI from claims that it is causing bed cuts
Health minister Alan Milburn has angrily defended hospital building projects funded by the private finance initiative and told critics that the scheme is not the driving force behind bed cuts.
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Homeless using A&E due to poor GP access
Homeless people are turning to accident and emergency services because they have difficulty registering with GPs, according to a study by The Big Issue in the North.
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Fraud inquiry trust sets up hotline
A trust at the centre of a police fraud investigation has set up a confidential phoneline so staff can voice concerns to external auditors.
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Gloucestershire 'failed to learn' from West case
The health service in Gloucestershire has failed to learn the lessons of the Fred and Rosemary West case, according to an independent report commissioned by Gloucestershire health authority.
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Survey results: homelessness and ill-health
59 per cent of Big Issue vendors surveyed reported 'a long-term illness, health problem or handicap' limiting their daily activities or work. Of these, 31 per cent believed their problem to be drug-related.
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Scottish Office tells trusts to go it alone over millennium pay
The Scottish Office has told trusts they must make their own arrangements for dealing with millennium events in the face of union calls for a Scotland- wide agreement on pay.