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HA chair urges smokers outside after burns death
Birmingham health authority chair Bryan Stoten has highlighted the death of a 53-year-old Solihull woman in a plea to smokers not to smoke at home, and particularly not in bed. She died after suffering 40 per cent burns in a fire that started after she fell asleep while smoking.
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Scots ambulances get priority system after target failures
Scotland's ambulance service is set to introduce a priority despatch system following a National Audit Office finding that just one in three Glasgow ambulances reached a 999 incident within seven minutes, against a target of one in two.
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Short pledges £50m in 'final push' against polio
International development secretary Clare Short has pledged £59m to the 'final push' of a global campaign to eradicate polio, bringing the UK's total contribution to £130m. The funding will go to the Indian government's Pulse Polio Initiative and the World Health Organisation's Polio Eradication Initiative aimed at six countries in ...
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HA pays out £600,000 to member of staff who had amputation after fall at work
An occupational therapy assistant who had her leg amputated after falling twice at a hospital has been paid £600,000 in compensation by County Durham health authority.
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WEB WATCH
In an era replete with New Age quacks and frauds who assert the curative and health-enhancing benefits of anything from gemstones to the laying on of hands, not to mention their innate superiority over 'western' medicine, it is worthwhile recalling the long, hard slog of intellectual effort which laid the ...
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A race for the truth
Ethnicity: an agenda for mental health Edited by Dinesh Bhugra and Veena Bahl Gaskell 262 pages £25
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Sense of portrayal
Former Bethlem and Maudsley trust chief executive Eric Byers, as seen by artist Joely Goodman, who painted 30 portraits of trust executives and service users for a series titled A Portrayal of the Psychiatric System.
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In person
Brendan Ryan has been appointed medical director at South Manchester University Hospitals trust. He succeeds Dr Philip Jones, who stepped down recently after a period of ill-health. Mr Ryan is a consultant in accident and emergency medicine and was formerly one of two trust associate medical directors.
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Party poopers
Radical reforms of US healthcare are urgently needed - just don't expect dynamic solutions from all the presidential candidates, says Howard Berliner
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More a musty read than a must-read
Information for evidence-based care By Ruth Roberts Radcliffe Medical Press 79 pages £17.95
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Monitor
Monitor isn't just here for the nasty things in life. In the spirit of partnership which pervades our glorious NHS, this week some handy hints to guide you through the clinical governance agenda, starting with a breakthrough from the Townsend Centre for International Policy Research, where they've stumbled on an ...
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Mo Mowlam's new role
Dr Mowlam has been charged with giving the Cabinet a 'reality-check' to test whether initiatives to tackle poverty 'are really working on the ground'.
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Top managers sign millennium service pledge
Trust and health authority chief executives have been ordered to sign a public 'guarantee' to deliver key services as part of final preparations for the millennium.
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Penalty kicks
The dispersal of asylum seekers around the country under the terms of the new Immigration and Asylum Act will make it harder than ever for them to access medical services. Barbara Millar reports
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MPs' ignorance shown
Lack of knowledge about mental health laws does not stop MPs claiming a 'specific interest' in mental health, according to a survey by mental health charity MACA.
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Teaming with ideas
A multidisciplinary team achieved impressive results in its attempt to alleviate winter pressures. John Edmonstone and colleagues explain
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Going with the grain
Artist Nicola Kerr Bone creates a healing mandala , a symbolic representation of the universe, at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital for world AIDS day. It was made from coloured grains of rice.
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Sight for sore eyes
Tibetans live in one of the highest inhabited regions in the world at an average 4,500m - and as altitude increases so does exposure to the ultra-violet radiation that damages eyesight.