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Keep your eye on the ball
So not only does England only ever win the World Cup under a Labour government, but the weather is better, too. Even under the present regime no spin doctor has yet had the brass neck to claim cause and effect. But it does seem that health secretary Frank Dobson and ...
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EMPLOYERS MUST PLAY A ROLE IN TRAINING
I read with interest Professor David Cox's letter (6 November). As vice-chair of the West Yorkshire education and training consortium, I am proud that it works extremely well in education commissioning and collaborative working.
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FIGURES FOR THE 'VICTIMS OF COMMUNITY CARE', AND HOW TO REDUCE THEM
There is little with which we would disagree in John Mahoney's analysis of community care services for severely mentally ill people (Letters, 18 December), the principal focus of the Zito Trust's campaign being precisely those areas and issues he describes.
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THOUGHTS ON THE REAL ANTI-SMOKING AGENDA
So public health minister Tessa Jowell wants to criminalise those smokers aged 16 and 17, who can presently be legally sold tobacco products (News Focus, page 10, 4 December).
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COMMON WAITING LISTS COULD MEAN MORE MONEY
Moves to establish common waiting lists could have positive financial implications for the NHS.
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WHY DIET IS A CRUCIAL BUT NEGLECTED PART IN NURSING PATIENTS BACK TO GOOD HEALTH
The views expressed by Patrick Duffy of NHS Supplies (Letters, 4 December) are endorsed and, indeed, voiced repeatedly by the state-registered dietitian. The evidence for the positive contribution of nutrition to clinical outcomes is well documented; however, patients still go hungry in hospital.
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IT'S HARD TO FIND, BUT INFORMATION FOR DEAF PEOPLE ABOUT HEALTHCARE SERVICES IS AVAILABLE
Nick Mears says that deaf people do not get equal opportunities in healthcare, especially information translated in sign language, which is almost nil (Letters, 6 November).
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YES, VAT IS A PROBLEM FOR PFI SCHEMES, BUT IS THERE A RISK OF THE TAIL WAGGING THE DOG?
Hugh Love (Letters, 4 December) is right to raise the problematic issue of VAT and its effect on affordability in private finance initiative schemes.
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BY CHRISTINE HANCOCK Party to a vision of the future
If nothing else, 1998 will be a landmark for the NHS. Its year- long 50th birthday party starts this month, even though the balloons and birthday cake will have to wait for the celebrations which will mark the first 'NHS Week' in July. The mood is deliberately upbeat, but for ...
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How Tony's welfare roadshow packs a punch BY MICHAEL WHITE
Shortly before Christmas I heard from a forceful woman lobbyist of my acquaintance for the first times in ages. She was outraged that Customs & Excise had quietly slipped VAT back on categories of incontinence products which had escaped from the taxman's grip via a court ruling under the wicked ...
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Monitor
It's the Patients Association wot tells it how it is, apparently. Or at least, Monitor assumes, the organisation led by novelist and agony aunt Claire Rayner was aiming to reflect the language of the street when it put out a press release about a conference encouraging people to make better ...
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Key Points
By establishing separate timetables for senior house officers and registrars, an obstetrics and gynaecology department has been able to reduce out-of-hours work while offering training relevant to the doctors' proposed careers.
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REFERENCES
1 Hobart A. Report on hours of work and medical staffing. JDC Annual Report 1997. BMA.
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Safety measures
A survey of medium-secure units for mentally disordered patients reveals wide variations in staff-to-patient ratios. James Rooney considers the implications
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Key Points
More than 20 years after the publication of the Butler report which led to the establishment of medium-secure units, many of its recommendations have not been implemented.
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REFERENCES
1 Butler R. Report of the Committee on Mentally Abnormal Offenders. London: HMSO, 1975.
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Survival practice
A former contracts manager for a health authority, Murray King finds his current job as manager of a