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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.
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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