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Snap happy
A portrait titled Olivia by photographer Dieter Cole forming part of an exhibition showing psychiatric service users in the community. Living Our Lives at Brixton Art Gallery in south London is complemented by pictures taken by the subjects. Mr Cole, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of 24, ...
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A helping handbook
Elias Fantousi swots up on valuable skills in the junior paramedics' firstaid handbook, which East Anglian Ambulance Service helped to produce. The seven-year-old was one of more than 20,000 children given the book, which teaches youngsters basic first aid as well as how their bodies work.
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Your good health
The mood was unanimously upbeat at a UK Public Health Association forum as the organisation turned a year old. Tash Shifrin soaked up the good vibrations
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MPs grill Langlands on 'good practice' roll-out
NHS chief executive Sir Alan Langlands has been grilled on why the NHS apparently struggles to make progress in areas the government wants to see tackled in its drive for modernisation.
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Now for some ghetto-blasting
In his London School of Economics health lecture, delivered in March, health secretary Alan Milburn made some important remarks about public health and its place within the NHS.
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Getting the wind up
Why won't health professionals write concise, accessible English? Tim Albert laments a culture of verbosity and pretension
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Milburn vents his fury as Lakeland scandal unfolds
Political correspondents, who had been summoned at short notice, had to wait a few minutes in the foyer of the Department of Health in Whitehall while the secretary of state's previous engagement overran. The wait only served to heighten the drama.
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It's drinking-up time in the NHS's last-chance saloon
The government is alienating its vital partners in NHS reform
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Down equality street
The NHS may have good intentions on race relations, but it has a long way to go before it achieves equality. Thelma Agnew reports on an HSJ survey
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Patients transferred as GPs wind down PCG
GPs have voted to disband a west London primary care group in the first case of its kind.
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Future uncertain as HEA shuts its doors
The future of health education and campaigning was under threat this week as the Health Education Authority closed, with 140 redundancies.
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Income distribution
With Labour's Budgets showing evidence of old-style redistribution, perhaps the NHS could set a trend by looking at its own income inequalities, says John Appleby
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Dear Mel. . .
I am the estates manager of a major London hospital. Throughout the 1980s we undertook several crash programmes to convert our wards for dual-sex use.
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Days like this
Paying the price of speaking one's mind. . . Controlling the internal market. . . Cervical cytology tests . . . A new round of HA mergers
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Cut to the quick
A rapid-response team is offering patients support after leaving hospital - or helping them avoid admission altogether. Kaye McIntosh explains
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More of a common touch needed
Practising evidence-based geriatrics By Sharon Straus and David Sackett Radcliffe Medical Press 165 pages £30