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DOCTORS AND NURSES ARE NOT THE ONLY CARERS
While recognising that Royal College of Nursing general secretary Christine Hancock is by necessity an advocate of the role of nurses (Observations, 14 May), it is nevertheless frustrating once again to read that doctors and nurses run the health service between them, and that nurses are the only professionals in ...
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A CULTURE THAT KNOWS HOW BEST TO NETWORK
David Hunter (Live from Leeds, 7 May) raised interesting issues about the co-ordination and networking requirements of health action zones and health improvement programmes.
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THE VOICE OF APH SPEAKS OUT LOUD AND CLEAR
Following Barbara Millar's report (News focus, page 9, 14 May) on the prospect of a new organisation for public health emerging from the alliance of the Association for Public Health and the Public Health Alliance, I'd like to point out that I am now co-chair of the APH.
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BY HOWARD BERLINER Anti-tax sentiment in ashes
The debate over the responsibility of tobacco companies for the medical costs of illness related to smoking still rages in the US. Most recently, the tobacco industry agreed to pay $6bn to the state of Minnesota, just as a jury was about to begin final deliberations. This action has given ...
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Branding those who bury their mistakes BY MICHAEL WHITE
I did a little survey the other day and found that there are now 34 Labour doctors in the House, seven Tories and just one Liberal Democrat - Twickenham's Vince Cable. Doctors in the sense of PhDs and DPhils, of course. New Labour retains a touching Old Labour faith in ...
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monitor
The snazzy new NHS Primary Care Group Alliance is a lobby group in tune with the times. Picking up the government's new emphasis on health promotion, its press launch eschewed the wine, nibbles and danish pastries that often feature at such events. Instead, hacks were offered mineral water. And just ...
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Models of perfection
Small general hospitals will have to adapt and change if they are to survive.
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Key Points
Small general hospitals can adapt to changing demands in a number of ways. These include expanding day-case work and increasing outpatient services.
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Close call
When a health authority is looking for revenue savings, sooner or later its glance will fall on the local cottage hospital. But few such closure plans have been successfully completed, and some have caused HAs more time and effort than the savings justify. In almost every case, the HA has ...
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in person
Mark Taylor (above) has been appointed chief executive of Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospital trust. Mr Taylor was formerly chief executive of the Royal Brompton before its merger with Harefield. Former Harefield chief executive John Hunt becomes deputy chief executive and corporate management director of the new trust. Other appointments ...
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Income and health
INEQUALITIES ARE AT THE CENTRE OF LABOUR'S HEALTH AGENDA, BUT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HEALTH AND WEALTH IS NOT STRAIGHTFORWARD, ARGUES JOHN APPLEBY
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this week
Sylvia Diggory, the first ever NHS patient, shares a 1948 leaflet introducing the new service with Terry Waite at a 50th anniversary concert in Manchester. Ms Diggory was a 13-year-old patient at Park Hospital, Trafford, where Aneurin Bevan launched the NHS, and was picked to be part of the occasion. ...
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Confederation top team quits en bloc to leave Thornton alone at the helm
NHS Confederation chief executive Stephen Thornton appeared to be isolated at the head of the organisation this week after it emerged that the entire top management team he inherited just six months ago is quitting.
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CHCs' chief goes in job showdown
Community health councils' chief Toby Harris has resigned after a fierce row within the organisation over 'conflicts of interest'.