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Partnership bid to ensure children get healthy start
Community Health South London trust has teamed up with national parenting charity Newpin to launch one of the first Sure Start programmes in the country. The programme, aimed at improving the lives of families with children under four on an estate in Southwark, involves a partnership with parents, voluntary organisations ...
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Dramatic figures on obesity spark new action plan
A new action plan to tackle rising levels of obesity has been announced by public health minister Tessa Jowell following new figures showing dramatic increases in the last five years. The Health Survey for England: adult reference tables 1997 shows that 17 per cent of men and 20 per cent ...
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Grant aimed at helping mentally ill find employment
The National Schizophrenia Fellowship has been awarded £170,000 by the Department for Education and Employment to help people with severe mental illness into sustained employment in London and Essex. It is believed to be the first time money from employment - rather than social care - has been used to ...
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Breast screening halted in Cumbria
Health service managers were due to hold crisis talks this week after breast screening services in one of England's most sparsely populated counties collapsed.
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Writer's 'van' reference drove me to distraction
While I applaud Lynn Massey-Davis' desire to experience first-hand what happens on a night shift in Hull ('Siren voices', 18 March) and accept that she says she 'learned a great deal', it is a pity that she did not learn two fundamentals.
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Borough bidding to work its care plan into HImP
A London borough is planning to ditch its community care plan in order to incorporate it into the local health improvement plan in a bid to extend joint working between health and local authorities.
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Equal wage win opens floodgates
Two more NHS trusts face equal value claims following the victory last week of more than 200 female domestic and catering workers granted parity with male porters at Hartlepool General Hospital.
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Decision on 2000 pay shocks managers
Hospitals could face a staffing crisis over the millennium weekend as a result of the government's decision to turn down a national deal on premium pay.
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Outside the NHS
BT: flat rate of £280 a day for staff on call on 31 December or 1 January plus £55 hourly bonuses, on top of existing bank holiday premiums.
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IHSM calls for a 'more explicit' political direction on rationing
Rationing will become more explicit because of the cash limits on primary care groups, according to an Institute of Health Services Management discussion paper.
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The age of consent
The NHS will soon have to ask patients before sharing their medical records, this year's Healthcare Computing conference heard. Peter Mitchell reports
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Deprivation blackspot
Norbiton ward is the most deprived ward in the area of Kingston and Richmond HA, with a Jarman deprivation score of 29 - nearly double that of the next worst ward and nearly seven times the average for the area.
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Secret service
The NHS Executive is to set up a special national authority for security and confidentiality, says its new head of information management and technology policy, Dr Peter Drury.
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Read between the lines
The NHS's Read codes clinical vocabulary is to be gradually merged into the US-developed SNOMED vocabulary.