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Moving targets
Why wait another week to read the public health green paper when The Journal can reveal all?
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Heart murmurs
Doctors and the government are at loggerheads over the best way to tackle coronary heart disease in Scotland.
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Using their initiative
Tomorrow is the deadline for health action zone applications. Dolly Chadda looks at one project which claims to exemplify just what the government is looking for
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Action stations
Never mind the rhetoric, Labour must do something about health inequalities, the Public Health Alliance conference was told.
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The same, but different
The NHS white paper for Wales emerged only after a process of negotiation between government departments,
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Unequal to the task ahead
'For a government which has placed so much emphasis on health inequalities to announce after nine months in office that it has been unable to come up with quantifiable targets for their reduction is an admission of failure on a fairly grand scale'
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CHARGES ARE THE TAX THAT DARE NOT SAY ITS NAME
I read with considerable interest that the Office of Health Economics has concluded that new NHS charges make 'little economic sense' (News, page 6, 8 January).
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50TH ANNIVERSARY SHOULD SEE A RENEWED AND TRULY NATIONAL NHS
Kieran Walshe is right to welcome the new emphasis on quality in The New NHS: modern, dependable (Open Space, 18 December). But his suggestion that the recommendations on the use of new medicines and technologies from the new National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) should have statutory force sits uncomfortably ...
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FAR FROM FINDING THEM CONFUSING, WE'RE FINDING THAT THE FACTS AREN'T THERE
To be accused by London Millennium Hospitals Ltd of not wanting to be confused by the facts (Letters, 8 January) is frankly hilarious.
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ACCESS TO GOOD QUALITY INFORMATION IS CRUCIAL - TRY A LIBRARY
As the white paper proposals are increasing the involvement of primary care staff in planning and managing healthcare for their local populations, it is important that their access to good quality published information is improved.
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AN EX-NURSE WHO THINKS IT'S TIME TO TAKE A SWING AT CHIEF EXECUTIVES
A question has been bothering me, an ex-nurse, for some time. In these days of managerial cuts and general control on bureaucracy, what is the purpose of chief executives? They cost on average pounds70,000-pounds80,000 and additionally require the support of one, normally two, secretaries. So the cost of a chief ...
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STILL MORE PRAISE FOR ANGELA SEALEY
May I also pay tribute to the work of Angela Sealey (Letters, 8 January). She worked with me closely at both the National Association of Health Authorities and Trusts and the NHS Confederation, and I formed a very high opinion of her integrity, loyalty and commitment to the NHS.
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UKCC TASK GROUP
The United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting has set up a task group to produce a framework for the level of specialist practice that will safeguard the public. The group is seeking evidence and opinion from a wide range of people involved in health and social ...
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BY MATT MUIJEN Gently does it this time round
Many will remember the launch of the Tory white paper, Working for Patients, in 1989. Softened up by the razzmatazz more usually associated with boxing matches, everyone in the NHS was herded together in halls across the nation to watch a video of Maggie. Big reforms hit us with the ...
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Papering over the cracks in the Daily Dobson BY MICHAEL WHITE
They say there's no such thing as bad publicity, but don't believe it. By coincidence I had just finished reading Wilkie Collins' great Victorian thriller, The Woman in White, when I flicked open Saturday's Telegraph to learn that 'Care in community is scrapped: Dobson pledges more secure units for mentally ...
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WEB WATCH
Our Victorian ancestors were obsessed with public health. But then, few things concentrate the mind quite as much as the prospect of regular and deadly outbreaks of contagious disease. And unlike the health scares of the 1990s, those of the 1830s and 1840s were particularly real in nature.
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The regeneration game
A bastion of vested interests? Impersonal? Bureaucratic? The demise of the conventional district general hospital has been predicted for years. But Mike Pollard believes it can survive - and even prosper