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Hospital warns smokers: 'Give up or go outside'
City Hospital in Birmingham is planning to push smokers outside if they cannot quit. The hospital restricts smoking at the moment, but from 3 July will ban it from all parts of the building, except 'certain areas such as an outside garden which has been set aside for smokers unable ...
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When it's time to get even
A pioneering scheme offering support for staff with mental health problems has put one trust ahead of the rest on employment opportunities. Laura Donnelly looks at the scheme in the light of last week's guidance by the Department of Health
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How Dr Ladyman taught MPs a worthwhile lesson
There are dozens of parliamentary groups, representing well-meaning cross-party interests ranging from abortion and agriculture to world government and youth affairs. I once heard of an MP applying to lead a delegation to Tonga, a lovely spot in the South Pacific. Too late did he discover that it was not ...
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Down the tubes
Trusts have a constant problem in recruiting and keeping laboratory staff, and low pay is the root of the problem. Seamus Ward reports
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Waiting lists - down but not out
Achieving the government's pledge of reducing waiting lists by 100,000 provided 'a foundation to take the battle against waiting into all aspects of NHS care', Mr Milburn said.
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Deacon seeks views on Scottish NHS Direct plan
Scottish health minister Susan Deacon has launched formal consultation on introducing a '24hour health and care advice line' to Scotland, which does not have NHS Direct. It will offer health and advice, build links between out-of-hours services and 'provide an improved, more appropriate response to 999 callers who do not ...
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Days like this
Taskforce to rally support. . .London reforms warning. . .Cook's Wales challenge. . .Trust extensions mooted. . .Poll tax idea resisted
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HAZy days
Those who have ever wondered exactly what health action zones do will get plenty of answers on Merseyside. Projects - ranging from a 'feel good factory' to roofing in alleyways - are up and running there with the aim of helping people feel better and healthier. The zone, the largest ...
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The cost of equality
The Department of Health guidance spells out the extent to which organisations are expected to invest resources to adjust workplace and employment arrangements: 'to spend at least as much on making a replacement as what would be needed to recruit and train a replacement'. It also lists practical ways to ...
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We have turned corner on deficits, says Wales director
The director of the NHS in Wales has told HSJ he has 'very mixed feelings' about leaving the health service.
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The Commons touch
Up and down the country, citizens of the nation have been invited to speak their hearts and minds on the great national plan for health. Kaye McIntosh lends an ear
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Mothers' care labouring under delusions
One of the doughtiest and most paradoxical champions of the NHS in the House of Commons recently returned to the subject of one of his greatest triumphs - maternity care - to lament with typical directness what he sees as its decline.
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Hutton moves on home care costs
The government is to issue statutory guidance to eliminate 'huge variations' in charges for home care services, health minister John Hutton has announced.
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Cancer drugs probe 'should take only months'
NHS cancer 'czar' Mike Richards has told MPs he expects 'around a dozen' licensed cancer drugs currently prescribed by some health authorities to be formally assessed 'in the next few months'.
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In brief: Extra-contractual referrals
Despite the government's promise to crack down on extra-contractual referrals, numbers of out-of-area treatments in the first two years of the Labour government have been as high as they were during the Conservatives' internal market. Of all hospital treatments in 1998, referrals out of health authority area accounted for 23 ...
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In brief: NHS
The NHS in England spent £314m on non-NHS contractor-provided domestic, hotel, cleaning, laundry and cleaning equipment services in 1988-89.