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What is hepatitis C?
Hepatitis C is a virus that can infect and damage the liver. The virus is found in the blood of people who have this disease, and is spread primarily by contact with the blood of an infected person.The main route of transmission in the UK is by injecting drug misusers ...
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Getting friendly: hospital buildings of the future
Architecture practice Llewelyn Davies says the NHS has been trying to introduce sustainability in new hospital design 'within pragmatic limits'.
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Breaking the cycle
Some brave souls are arguing that a future petrol blockade could be just the impetus the NHS needs to rethink its attitude to environmental issues. Ann McGauran reports
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Fleet-footed 'Billy'Milburn faces down the ballet-hoo
It's usually water off a duck's back to me. But I would not deny that Alastair Campbell can be a pretty rough hooligan when it comes to trying to bully reporters or their editors with a dawn phone call. In the week of the Milburn 'concordat' with the private sector, ...
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NICE approves combination therapy for hepatitis C
Combination drugs for hepatitis C have been recommended by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence. NICE said that patients suffering from moderate or severe hepatitis C should be given a combination of the drugs interferon alpha and ribavirin. Until June 1999, interferon alpha was the only licensed treatment for chronic ...
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Questionnaire and answer sessions
Information was collected on all publicly-funded admissions to residential or nursing care in both boroughs over a three-month period. With the written consent of clients or their carers, a detailed questionnaire was completed on each individual at the point of assessment, by the client's social worker or care manager. The ...
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All the very best
Never has the imperative to strive for excellence been so crucial in the NHS. Quality, the government is at pains to point out, is now as important as cost in delivering services. All must emulate the best.
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Publicly funded schemes losing more acute beds than PFI deals
More acute beds have been lost in publicly financed hospital building projects than in private finance initiative deals, NHS head of private finance and capital Peter Coates has claimed.
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NHS Executive pulls the plug on private schemes worth £58m
A trust is pressing for NHS capital funding after changes in a private consortium's financial figures forced the NHS Executive to axe four private finance initiative schemes last week.
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Government launches £40m 'programmes for action'
The government has launched three programmes for action on orthopaedics, dermatologists and ear, nose and throat surgery. The programmes - for which funding of £40m was announced in August - aim to enable 'innovative practice', cut waiting times, improve patient access and reduce inequalities in provision of services. The programmes ...
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Charities pay 10 per cent of London's health bill
Charities pay £500m - nearly 10 per cent - of London's annual health service bill of £5bn, according to research by the Charities Aid Foundation in association with the King's Fund. Most of the money was spent on hospice care, clinical equipment, refurbishment of hospitals and medical research. Around £214m ...
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£1.1m is set aside for redundancy payouts
Managers at the country's first completed private finance initiative hospital have set aside £1.1m to fund anticipated redundancies among non-clinical staff, a tribunal heard.
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Manager's £22,000 pay increase is a 'disgrace'
Unison has described a £22,000 pay award to a Lanarkshire health board senior manager as 'disgusting and a disgrace'.