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DGHs are faced with a choice between restricting their focus to intensive surgical and medical services or building up alliances with other agencies, including GPs.
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A moving story
Deaths among frail, elderly mentally ill patients following their transfer from hospital to the community are not inevitable. Kenneth Bledin and John Riordan explain
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The risk of death among elderly patients moved out of long-stay psychiatric hospitals can be minimised with careful preparation.
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1 Adshead H, Nelson H, Gooderally V, Gollogly P. Guidelines for successful relocation. Nursing Standard 1995; 5: 32-35.
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Tell it like it is
Despite the rhetoric, carers are often required to look after sick and disabled people with a lack of information no professional would tolerate.
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Carers want a great deal more medical and practical information than they are given at present.
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CLOSING THE ASYLUM The mental patient in modern society (2nd edition) By Peter Barham Penguin 214 pages pounds7.99
The central question of this important book is best expressed in Barham's own words: 'The question to pose today, therefore, is whether we are in a position to resolve the historical problems of the marginalised and excluded mental patient... to provide a systematic revaluation of mentally disturbed people and their ...
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This week
'Drugs czar' Keith Hellawell holds up a new drugs guide for 14- 16-year-olds during a press call at Haverstock school, London. Mr Hellawell, UK anti-drugs co-ordinator, said The Score: facts about drugs was designed to combat 'the huge amount of misinformation and myths' circulating among young people. The Health Education ...
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Ministers set to concede defeat on inequality targets
Ministers are ready to concede defeat in their efforts to set national targets for the reduction of health inequalities.
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Milburn orders publication of Read report
Health minister Alan Milburn has ordered the speedy publication of an allegedly damning report on a crisis-hit NHS computer project amid reports of a cover-up.
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Fundamental changes to NHS financing ruled out
Health secretary Frank Dobson this week ruled out any 'fundamental changes in the way the NHS is financed', and launched a vigorous defence of its role in making the British economy more competitive.
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Funding gap, not enmity, blamed for 'Berlin walls'
Inadequate funding of social care, rather than poor relationships, is responsible for 'Berlin walls' between health and social services, MPs were told this week.