All News articles – Page 1960
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Tough guidelines will tackle illegal tobacco sales
Public health minister Yvette Cooper has launched a new set of guidelines, developed with the Department of Trade and Industry with support from trading standards officers and local authorities, to 'get tough' on shop-keepers who sell cigarettes to under-age children. The tobacco enforcement protocol sets out best practice on issues ...
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It'll never get well if you picket
While the country struggled along in grudging acceptance of the fuel blockade, two regional public health directors tackled the picket lines head on.
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Get some in
Alan Milburn says he wants a new drive to boost bed numbers - but how easy will it be to achieve this at grassroots level, asks Thelma Agnew
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Fast and loose
As the third wave of PMS pilots gets on its way, doctors'leaders are complaining that their advice has not been heeded in drafting the new contracts. Ann McGauran reports
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Where men are men and women don't get a look-in
The rise and fall of modern medicine By James Le Fanu Abacus 490 pages £9. 99 paperback
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'Extra resources needed' to meet future demands on mental health
An interim strategy examining how the NHS can build a mental health workforce to meet the demands of the national service framework and NHS plan says extra resources will still be needed.
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Dear Mel. . .
In HSJ of 27 July, a woman wrote in to 'Dear Mel' to say that her hospital social club had been used on one occasion by women for a hen night (with male strippers) and by men (probably with female strippers) on another. Why is it, then, 'a blast' for ...
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Days like this
Staff increment proposal . . . 'presumptuous'staff ads. . . Clarke says watershed ahead. . .
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A sorry tale of crying wolf which will haunt Labour
Using the NHS to end the fuel crisis will do little to woo back voters
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Contractors criticised on records
Financial controls over central finance services contracted out by the Public Health Laboratory Service broke down in 1998-99, the National Audit Office has found.
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Group claims inroads on improvements to hospital
The East London Communities Organisation has claimed an 'important step forward' in securing better services at Newham General Hospital. Following a meeting to launch a report on the state of the hospital, it said managers had promised changes to the way food was heated and serviced in the hospital, with ...
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Changing rooms
Transferring medical patients to outlying wards causes disruption to both staff and patients and is a poor way of relieving pressure on beds. Lesley Lack and Joy Warren report
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Cancelled ops suggestwinterwoes
Figures showing a big jump in cancelled operations this year suggest that managers will struggle to comply with ministerial orders to keep them to a minimum this winter.
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Campaign launched to put patients centre-stage
A campaign has been launched, led by the Long-Term Medical Conditions Alliance, to put patients centre-stage in the New NHS. People's Voice for Health (pv4h) argues that the NHS plan was 'a step in the right direction'. But it now wants a commitment to a comprehensive service, involving the people ...
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Building insights into good value
Total facilities management By Brian Atkin and Adrian Brooks Blackwell Science 192 pages £29. 50 paperback