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In brief: Health Education Authority
Members of the former Health Education Authority's mental health programme have set up a new organisation to support the promotion of mental health. Mentality will seek to help health authorities meet standard one of the national service framework, requiring them to promote mental health and combat discrimination.
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Overdose attack man sent to jail
A drug overdose victim who lashed out at hospital staff who had just saved his life has been jailed for a year.
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In brief: British Medical Association
The British Medical Association in Northern Ireland has called for an end to 'healthcare policy inertia', with vice-chair of the BMA's consultants and specialists commitee Kanwar Panesar claiming the province was 'almost three years behind the rest of the UK in terms of health service reforms' - a situation that ...
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MP appeals to government over free nursing care
Liberal Democrat MP Paul Burstow has urged the government to introduce free nursing care for all, following a hint by health secretary Alan Milburn to the Royal College of Nursing's annual congress that the government may be considering such a move. 'It is now three years since the government promised ...
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In brief: Employment Appeal Tribunal
A race, sex or disability discrimination claim can go ahead after the applicant's death, the Court of Appeal has ruled, reversing a decision of the Employment Appeal Tribunal. The ruling allows the daughter of a secretary who brought a race discrimination claim against Lewisham and Guy's Mental Health trust to ...
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Anti-abortion group pickets family planning centres
Anti-abortion group Precious Life has committed itself to picketing four new family planning centres funded by the Scottish Executive. Scottish health minister Susan Deacon announced that £150,000 would be provided to Brook Advisory Group for new centres in Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow and Stirling. Jim Dowson, Precious Life spokesman, described the ...
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Disabled given priority on work alternatives
Employees who become disabled and can no longer do their job must be given priority for any alternative vacancies that arise, the Employment Appeal Tribunal has ruled.
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Fox's brush with bright ideas lights the way ahead
Frank Field wasn't the only politician casting around for new ideas to help the NHS this week. Though less exotic than Mr Field's suggestion that patients be sent to India or China for treatment, Dr Liam Fox is halfway through some basic rethinking, too.
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Government has 'ducked' thorny issues in Mental Health Act plans
The expert committee charged with advising the government on reform of the Mental Health Act has attacked its green paper for 'ducking some fundamental questions' to chase a tabloid agenda on public safety.
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Action team members deny PR accusations
Senior managers appointed to the government's NHS modernisation action teams have dismissed suggestions that consultation on 'a national plan for health' is an exercise in public relations.
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Reform association issues advice on better access
The Abortion Law Reform Association has issued a guide for commissioners on improving access to abortion and urged them to look for ways of improving services to match standards issued by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists at the end of March. President Baroness Lockwood said: 'More than 30 ...
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NICE makes 10-year ruling on hips
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence has issued guidance on hip replacements, recommending that artificial joints should last at least 10 years in 90 per cent of cases.
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Turn of the screw
Even when a merger is carefully planned and handled with sensitivity, staff will still experience long-term upset, writes Sandy Gillett
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Monitor is unable to say why health secretary Alan Milburn's Sunday appearance with Jonathan Dimbleby was followed by Carry on Doctor. But what a happy reminder the 1968 classic offers of the need to leave no group untouched by modernisation. We may confine our blaming and shaming to managers for ...
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Views sought on merger plan
South Staffordshire health authority is to launch a formal consultation on proposals to merge mental health and community trusts.
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Look who's talking
Whatever the future holds for Bart's, it seems destined for controversy. Kaye McIntosh reports
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Internal market was only way 'to stop Thatcher privatising NHS'
The internal market in healthcare was dreamt up in a radical bid to stop Margaret Thatcher privatising the NHS, according to a book by a leading adviser to the current health secretary.
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Life for patient who took hostage
A patient who effectively shut down a hospital in Wales for two days by holding a doctor at gunpoint has been given a life sentence.