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1948 and all that
Managers, doctors, nurses, unions, patients - you couldn't get a white paper cover between their leaders when they got together to give the NHS 50th anniversary celebrations their official send-off. An incredulous Mark Crail joined in the fun
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You'd better believe it
Coins and stamps aside, anniversary organisers are promising a cornucopia of ideas to celebrate the NHS's half-century, including a series of big- name lectures, debates on mental health services, and a travelling photo exhibition.
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Reel lives
Was an NHS trust right to allow TV cameras onto a psychiatric ward? Lynn Eaton reports on the row
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When it's time to call in CID
Trials of an American initiative dealing with stress and post-traumatic stress have proved successful, despite initial scepticism. Dolly Chadda reports
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Time to turn the tables
'But do the panoply of indicators and league tables, together with the ritual of public scrutiny and humiliation for the laggards, actually improve performance? Where is the evidence?'
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SELF-HELP BOOKLET SHOWS TRUST IN THE PUBLIC
It is good to know that 50 years on we have at least learned to trust the public and place some confidence in their ability to make sensible use of information and take some decisions of their own about the management of their ailments.
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CAN SCOTLAND GO ALL THE WAY?
Who said Scotland couldn't win the World Cup under a Labour government? (Comment, 15 January).
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PUBLIC HEALTH GREEN PAPER SHOULD PUT ITS WEIGHT BEHIND A NEW TARGET
Congratulations to the Journal for its early publication and analysis of Our Healthier Nation (News, News Focus, Comment, 22 January). Even in your concise summary, the central conceptual flaw in the public health strategy is obvious.
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ARACHNOPHOBIA THE MOVIE? NO, ARACHNOPHOBIA THE JOURNAL
I find the Journal interesting and informative - all but one page, which I cannot read.
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A SIMPLE SOLUTION FOR THE STUDENT SHORTAGE
The Medical Workforce Standing Advisory Committee says the annual intake of medical students should be increased by about 1,000 as soon as possible (News Focus, page 13, 8 January).
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LONDON'S 24-HOUR HELPLINE IS OLD NEWS IN OLDHAM
You stated that a London health authority is using pounds195,000 of winter pressures money to launch what might be the first 24-hour nurse- led helpline to direct patients from casualty wards (News, page 6, 15 January).
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A BEACON FOR THE REST OF THE HEALTH SERVICE?
You are right that not everyone was idle over the holiday period in Hampshire (News, page 5; Comment, 8 January) as not only was normal business being carried out by social services and the local NHS trust, but also programmed meetings were being held between those organisations and Test Valley ...
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PRO-SMOKING LOBBY IS ONLY SCORING OWN GOALS
Martin Ball, spokesman for a tobacco industry-funded pressure group (Letters, 15 January), claims that under-age smoking would increase if the legal age for selling cigarettes was raised from 16 to 18. If this is true - which is most unlikely - why does he object, given that the tobacco industry ...
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THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PHARMACISTS AND VETS
Unison's Karen Jennings (News Focus, page 13, 15 January) should read the Medicines Act again and more carefully. Not only can pharmacists prescribe according to their own judgement, but what they prescribe does not even have to be licensed by the Medicines Control Agency.
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GETTING THE FIGURES STRAIGHTENED OUT
An error crept into my article 'Home truths' (pages 30-31, 15 January). It should read:
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BY ALAN MAYNARD Happy days are here again
'Many GPs seem to see the white paper as a triumph of primary care over the rest of the NHS and the creation of a new nirvana for them. Sorry comrades - this is the beginning of the management of primary care within a cash-limited budget'
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Brown bides his time as Hancock stakes her claim BY MICHAEL WHITE
Right. Before we start on real life, what do Bill Clinton's Zippergate problems have to do with America's recurring healthcare crisis? A great deal, according to Gore Vidal, novelist, East Coast grandee and critic of what he tends to see as the new Roman Empire.
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WEB WATCH
With the Devolution Bill now through its second reading and a site chosen for the Scottish Parliament, progress towards self rule is advancing apace. And nowhere more so than in the health service, for which the Designed to Care white paper maps out a future very different from that south ...