All News articles – Page 1989
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Schizophrenia
A number of non-pharmacological interventions for people with schizophrenia may reduce the risk of relapse and cut hospital admission rates. Paul Wilson, Clive Adams and Anne-Marie Bagnall report on current evidence
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Siren voices
London Ambulance Service, which handled over a million calls in the year to March 2000, is cautious about plans to establish links with NHS Direct.
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Thetelling truth
The Shipman inquiry is to be held in public. But the truth, writes Sir Cecil Clothier, is more likely to come out in private
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One 2 One argument
London's Hammersmith Hospitals trust has defended accepting £20,000 from a mobile phone company in return for the use of Charing Cross Hospital's name in a television advertisement.
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MPs press for CHC abolition meeting
MPs on the House of Commons all-party committee on community health councils are to meet ministers for urgent discussions in the wake of the NHS plan's decision to abolish CHCs.
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Not just acute idea
The private finance initiative's sphere of influence is spreading far beyond the acute hospitals of the first wave - a trend further boosted by the NHS plan. Seamus Ward reports
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'Save A&E' campaign hits HA
Health authorities covering Brighton and Haywards Heath have been forced to defend themselves from a newspaper campaign to 'save' a local accident and emergency department.
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Ahead of the game
Most of the large, acute private finance schemes have been driven by the need to rationalise disparate units on to one site. Leeds Community and Mental Health trust is using PFI to do the opposite - the trust needs a range of accommodation on sites scattered around the city.
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In brief: Cambridge ambulance crews
Cambridge ambulance crews have been given a special hotline to request CCTV control room staff to monitor calls to potentially hazardous situations. The cameras already perform this service for the police. East Anglian Ambulance trust has promised to support the prosecution of anyone caught assaulting staff.
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Deprived areas hit by underspending
Some of the most deprived areas outside London are spending well below the money nominally allocated for mental health services, according to a national survey by researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry.
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In brief: British Medical Association
The British Medical Association in Scotland has called for a 'new culture of openness and transparency' in dealing with organ retention. Scottish secretary Dr Bill O'Neill said overprotective doctors had tried to 'shield' parents from the details of post mortems, but the public outcry over organ retention showed that this ...
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Medical director quits while cardiac services probe hangs in the balance
The medical director of Oxford Radcliffe Hospital trust has resigned as it awaits the findings of an inquiry into cardiac services.
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Deficit increased at Bart's as a result of directive
Implementing the EU working-time directive has added £1.6m to the income and expenditure deficit of Barts and the London trust, according to a report to its board. The trust had an income and expenditure deficit of £2.98m at the end of 1999-2000 and all but one clinical directorate were overspent. ...
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Grin and bear it?
Graffiti is already daubed on the otherwise pristine walls of the children's ward in the brand new Cumberland Infirmary. 'Tony Blair was here, 16 June 2000, ' reads the scrawl. He really ought to know better at his age. But perhaps he was incited to autograph the wall by the ...