All News articles – Page 1998
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Hike tobacco tax, says WHO
The World Health Organisation has claimed that using tax to raise cigarette prices by 10 per cent would 'motivate' 42 million people to quit smoking, preventing about 10 million tobacco-related deaths.
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Sweeter than Honey
The new chief executive of the troubled London Ambulance Service has come in for universal praise. What's his secret, wonders Laura Donnelly
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News: Jane Hutt
Welsh health secretary Jane Hutt has announced £1m of funding over two years for research into community health development. Seven projects will be funded as part of SHARP (Sustainable Health Action Research Programme).
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Your money or your life
The hospice movement, a lynchpin of the voluntary sector, is running out of funds. Its leaders say it's time for the NHS to pay for the care of those who use it. Patrick Butler reports
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Unions protest at ' low ' pay for supernurses
Nursing unions have written to health secretary Alan Milburn in protest at the low pay being offered to 'supernurses'.
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News: Multiple Sclerosis Society
The Multiple Sclerosis Society is creating a national resource centre as part of its move to north London. The society has kept its freephone helpline number, 0808 800 8000, and its website, www.mssociety.org.uk
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Out of order
The government's promise of £300m for new equipment comes after two decades of under-investment, which have left much life-saving machinery obsolete. Colin Connolly reports
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in person
Terence Etherton QC, chair of Broadmoor Hospital Authority, has been appointed chair designate ofWest London Mental Health trust. The new organisation will take over the management of health services provided by the authority and Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham Mental Health trust next April.
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Smokers pledged to quit in their thousands
Figures issued last week show that almost 15,000 people set 'quit dates' to give up smoking through new programmes developed by health action zones in England last year. But just 39 per cent of the 14,600 people who set dates had actually given up when they were followed up four ...
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A punishing schedule
The education service has suffered a regime of inspection and scrutiny; now it's the turn of the health service. Tash Shifrin reports
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Something off the trolley?
If ever you wanted to analyse the effects of spin, the NHS plan is your opportunity. I read it the day it was announced, printed it off the web, and was overwhelmed by its contents, about 150 pages of ideas.
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No trouble
Brookside actresses Alexandra Fletcher (left) and Karen Drury join Mersey Regional Ambulance trust technician Kate Hodgers at the launch of a 'zero tolerance zone' campaign highlighting violence against ambulance staff.
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£2m allotted to promote pre-school programmes
Northern Ireland health minister Bairbre de Brun has allocated £2m to get the Sure Start programme underway.The programme, already running in other parts of the UK, is intended to promote the development of pre-school children, focusing on deprived areas. Ms de Brun said some areas of particular need had not ...
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Tayside finds way to cut £6.3m from debt
Cash-strapped Tayside University Hospitals trust has agreed a package of measures to reduce its deficit by £6.3m a year to balance the books by the end of March 2002.
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A glimpse of Patientville 2001
One of the most frustrating things about being a member of a modernisation action team was being sworn to secrecy about our discussions until after the NHS plan was published. Even more frustrating was knowing we had no control whatsoever over what went into the plan - that was for ...