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19 March 1948
The National Association of Administrators of Local Government Establishments has circulated a memo on the NHS Act and draft National Assistance Bill, which make provision for the 'sick' and 'normally healthy aged', leaving a residue which will be the responsibility of local authorities. This consists of the following classes:
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EVALUATING HEALTH INTERVENTIONS An introduction to evaluation of health treatments, services, policies and organisational interventions By John 0vretveit Open University Press 324 pages pounds55/pound
There is increasing emphasis on the need to evaluate what we do and to ensure we do it in the most effective or cost-effective ways. Evidence- based healthcare has focused principally on clinical (especially medical) activities. But the way healthcare is organised, financed and managed may well have as much ...
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In person
The Royal Marsden trust has appointed Cally Palmer as chief executive. She joins from the Royal Free Hampstead trust, where she is currently deputy chief executive and director of services. Ms Palmer succeeds Phyllis Cunningham CBE, who is leaving at the end of May after 24 years at the hospital.
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Open to question
Health secretary Frank Dobson last year asked trust chairs to ensure their meetings were open to the public. He believed that the public would 'gain a wider understanding of the constraints and opportunities we face' and 'become more involved in their local health service and have a greater voice in ...
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High hopes
The need to modernise a dilapidated and obsolete hospital stock was a major problem facing the early NHS. In the first of three articles on the forces that shaped today's NHS estate, Ann Dix investigates the ups and downs of the post war years
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Memories of a rock musician
Rock musician Ian Dury is someone who knows all about the inside of hospitals. He contracted polio in 1949, aged seven, probably in the public swimming pool at Southend.
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Memories of a nurse
The scars of the second world war were still in evidence when Diana Vass, now principal nurse adviser at NHS Estates, joined London's St Thomas' Hospital in 1956 as a trainee nurse.
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From showpiece to scrap heap
When English Heritage paid a recent visit to St Margaret's Hospital, Swindon, they 'threw up their hands in horror', admits Ian Keeber, the trust's public relations officer.
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Cockroaches on the run
A pounds97m regeneration of a run-down east London estate looks set to transform the health prospects of its residents. Pictures by Jon Walter
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Putting paid to the past
MSF's equal-pay claim, based on a landmark ruling from the European Court, could make the NHS overhaul its pay structure, says Lyn Whitfield
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Dark days for the Lighthouse
Why has HIV and AIDs centre London Lighthouse fallen victim to funding cuts? Pat Healy reports
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Money on the move
Has Gordon Brown already been more generous towards the NHS than a Tory chancellor would have been? John Appleby assesses the background to this week's Budget
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Beyond a smoke
Raising tobacco tax may deter smoking but it's not as simple as that. Mark Crail reports on a Budget dilemma
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An early version of Welfare to Work, the government's flagship employment policy aimed at getting unemployed young people into work, was test-driven by St James's University Hospital trust, Leeds, a year ago.