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Doorstep delivery
A home care service for people with severe mental illness has reduced costs and proved popular with users.
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Monitor
Summer brings so many health risks that Monitor hardly dares get out of bed these days. What with public health and photo-opportunities minister Tessa Jowell's brave crusade against deadly cheeses, and chief medical officer Sir Kenneth Calman's wholly unexpected warning that 'consumers cooking burgers and similar minced meat products should ...
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Voices of dissent
Community health councils keep managers on their toes, says Steve Ainsworth, and should not be resented by health authorities
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Every step of the way
When poliomyelitis struck teenager Gordon Palmer in 1950, the two- year-old NHS was there to see him through, and he remains a loyal supporter
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'Iron law' of wealth
A better state of health A prescription for the NHS By John Willman Profile Books 297 pages 8.99
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Unhealthy fears from the 1950s to the 1990s
Moral panics By Kenneth Thompson Routledge 142 pages 10.99
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Advice on unravelling primary care funding
Practice finance Your questions answered By John Dean Radcliffe 145 pages 16.50
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Scots information strategy due in September
The Scottish NHS information strategy will be published in mid- September, the same month as those for England and Wales - if current deadlines hold.
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Cash for online booking trials
The Department of Health has allocated 5m to piloting an online hospital appointment booking system for GPs in England and Wales. The aim is for patients to know their appointment date before they leave the GP surgery.
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Suppliers to NHS Direct's telephone triage pilot likely to win many of its second-wave contracts
The 35m worth of contracts announced this month for the second wave of the NHS Direct telephone helpline are likely to go to many of the suppliers who provided the initial pilot telephone triage systems.
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In brief
Guidelines for setting up primary care groups contain virtually no recommendations on information technology solutions, or money to build them, according to GP computing experts.'There is not and will not be an IT solution or detailed specifications for primary care groups,' said a regional GP computer adviser. Part of the ...
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Dobson launches new HAZs with 15m cash
A second wave of health action zones has been given the go-ahead by health secretary Frank Dobson.
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Milburn announces move to clean up merit awards system for top doctors
Campaigners want to see a revamped merit award system for senior doctors which would place greater emphasis on discretionary awards at local level.
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Test scandal trust 'unduly litigious'
A hospital facing legal action by 89 women affected by a cervical smear test scandal has been accused of being 'unduly litigious' in settling some cases.
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Calls to put managers on to staff pay system
Health service unions and managers' groups this week joined forces to call for the inclusion of senior managers in a new pay determination system covering all NHS staff.
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Work assaults dog health staff
Healthcare staff are four times more likely to suffer violent assault than workers in general, a study has found.
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Cash for HIV prevention 'misses gay men'
Money allocated for HIV prevention work among the groups most at risk is being diverted to other uses, according to two surveys from the National Aids Trust.
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'No confidence' vote over two ward closures
Staff at Llandough Hospital in South Wales have passed a unanimous vote of no confidence in its managers after a decision to close two wards.
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Nurse recruitment hits an all-time low
Managers' leaders have expressed alarm about two sets of figures showing that the NHS is facing a nursing recruitment crisis.