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Mental health white paper will target patient rights
The long-awaited white paper on the Mental Health Act, due to be published on 19 December, is likely to signal a significant improvement in patients' rights - including better access to an advocate.
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Health inequalities show no sign of levelling off
Although disadvantaged families in Britain are benefiting from rising educational standards in schools and falling levels of unemployment, there has been no corresponding reduction in health inequalities, according to a report by the New Policy Institute published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. The report, which compiles information from 50 indicators, ...
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Jingle hells?
Being hooked up to the hospital radio station was once considered worse than being tied to an IV drip, but a renaissance in broadcast services may have patients reaching for the headphones. Janet Snell tunes in
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Some like it hotter
Extremes of cold and heat have a deleterious effect on people's health, but climate change may bring healthier winters and more sickly summers. Dominique Florin takes the temperature
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Modern times
It was a year of grand plans and private gestures. Mark Crail on how the millennium bugged the NHS
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Overview but no plan
Health Care UK Autumn 2000 The King's Fund Review of Health Policy Edited by John Appleby and Anthony Harrison King's Fund 72 pages £9.99
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Patient proposals questioned
The NHS Confederation has cast doubt over key planks of the government's proposals for patient involvement in the health service.
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WEB WATCH
This is the very last Webwatch.When the column started in September 1996, Internet access was a rarity. Few people had seen the worldwide web, let alone used it for work. Most of us had trouble seeing its relevance. Now we are promised wired fridges that order the groceries and let ...
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Bedblock set to hit trust's £1m savings
A cash-strapped Scottish trust has revealed that it has made £1m in savings on wages but will have to spend an extra £1m on tackling bedblocking this winter.
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Strategy for HIV remains elusive despite an extra £41m in funding
Public health minister Yvette Cooper has announced an extra £41m next year to tackle soaring numbers of people living with HIV and AIDS. But there is still no sign of the long-delayed draft sexual health and HIV strategy, which is now not expected until the new year.
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Traffic-light doubts grow as 80% of red-alert HAs appear in North
A preliminary 'traffic light' system ranking English health authorities in terms of performance and effectiveness exposes a sharp North-South divide, with the vast majority of poor-performing 'red light' organisations in the North, this week's HSJ reveals.
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'Battles' inevitable if medical committee is abolished
The medical practices committee is urging the government to reconsider proposals laid out in the NHS plan to abolish it.
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Court action looms over DoH anti-flu drug guidance
A company which distributes an anti-flu drug that is a tenth of the price of Relenza is considering legal action against the Department of Health after accusing it of restraint of trade.
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Winter cash unlikely to avert crisis as PM admits problems
NHS managers got an early taste of winter pressure this week as prime minister Tony Blair admitted that some problems would be 'inevitable' over the coming months.
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Views sought on organ retention after post-mortem
The Scottish Executive is to seek the views of the public on the retention of organs after post-mortem examinations. A review group, set up by Scottish health minister Susan Deacon and chaired by Professor Sheila McLean, is investigating previous practice in relation to hospital post-mortems and post-mortems required by law. ...
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Cervical screening at same level as five years ago
The proportion of women in England screened for cervical cancer has remained unchanged since 1995, with a persistent 16 per cent who do not have regular smears, according to the latest report from the cervical cancer screening programme.