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America on the line
Telephone advice lines run by nurses have long existed in the US, but the growing use of them is proving unpopular with patients.
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Key Points
The growth of telephone advice lines has been partly driven by managed care schemes, keen to reduce use of health services.
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Clinicians will get a major role in Scot tish reforms
Clinicians are to be given a major role in reshaping health services in the first detailed plan implementing the government's white paper reforms in Scotland.
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Fund GPs pull out in protest at Labour plan
A Berkshire practice is thought to be the first to pull out of the fundholding scheme in protest at the Labour government's health reforms.
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on the record
DONALD REID is the chief executive of the Association for Public Health. He was previously executive director of the Health Education Authority, specialising in programmes for youth and smoking prevention. He is an international consultant on tobacco control strategies.
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In person
London Ambulance Service trust has appointed its first medical director. Fionna Moore (above), an accident and emergency consultant at Charing Cross and Hammersmith hospitals, will be working for LAS two days a week and providing clinical guidance on patient care. LAS has also promoted Wendy Foers to the post of ...
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All-party group will promote primary care and public health
A 30-strong parliamentary group led by two GPs and a former NHS manager has been set up to promote the interests of primary care and public health.
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Milburn gets new 'eyes and ears'
Salford people are blessed with 'courage, determination, wit and compassion, and... an unrivalled ability to see through falseness and to expose insincerity', said the city's Labour MP, Hazel Blears, in her maiden speech last May.
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Jowell ministers to European agenda
Public health minister Tessa Jowell has outlined plans for taking forward Europe-wide public health issues as part of the UK's six-month presidency of the European Union.
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Sing le-trust consultation process condemned by CHCs
Critics of plans to create a single ambulance trust in Wales have issued a declaration of no confidence in the consultation process, which ended this week.
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Ambulance forum tackles year 2000 problem
An Ambulance Service forum is being established to tackle the year 2000 IT problem, which one chief executive has estimated could cost pounds1m per trust to solve.
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350 complaints a day under new procedure
The NHS is receiving more than 350 written complaints a day, government statistics have shown.
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Shadow over Bart's as London review prepares to report findings to Dobson
Health secretary Frank Dobson has taken charge of the outcome of the London review, now expected to be published in the next couple of weeks.
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Getting physical:
Getting physical: Aberdare GP Shesh Sahai leads by example with a work-out on a rowing machine. He was among doctors from across south Wales who took part in an 'Are You Fit for Work?' event last week held at a Cardiff fitness centre. Its aim was to encourage doctors to ...
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Board recommends merger of three of region's ambulance services
A project board to consider the future of ambulance services in Trent has recommended that three of the region's five ambulance trusts should merge.
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Unions are united against attempt to phase pay rises
Health unions this week presented a united front against rumours that the government may phase this year's pay awards to keep public spending within limits set by the previous Conservative government.
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Frank Dobson
One of health secretary Frank Dobson's special advisers has been involved in developing computer systems that will help ministers manage news more effectively. According to press reports, Joe McCrae has been working on a Department of Health system which analyses government activity constituency by constituency. It should allow Mr Dobson ...