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Short Cuts: £1m ads to ease pressure on emergency services
The NHS has launched its £1m nation-wide advertising campaign to help people 'consider the full range of healthcare options available to them' before calling an ambulance or heading for accident and emergency. The campaign features a medicine cabinet with the contents highlighting options, including looking after yourself and using local ...
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WEB WATCH
'I've heard that it is dangerous to take Prozac, and smoke marijuana, or take other illegal drugs. Does anyone know if that is true?' asks Sara. According to RxList, which bills itself as 'the internet drug index', the anti-depressant is the fifth most commonly prescribed drug in the US - ...
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The Tongan winding road
Primary care in the South Pacific is far from idyllic, and patients would hardly recognise the range of services offered in the UK. Geraint Lewis reports on two recent attachments
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In person
Tony McLean has succeeded Sally Gorham as chief executive of Essex and Herts Community trust. Ms Gorham, who had held the post since 1995, is now chief executive of Harlow primary care group. Mr McLean, a qualified nurse, was deputy chief executive of Allington trust, Ipswich, where he oversaw the ...
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Monitor
Monitor's uncanny ability to foretell the future - despite the odd cock-up, such as when Mo Mowlam didn't become health secretary - tempts a new prophecy: the Tories, unable to stomach the prospect of 'Shagger Norris' as their candidate for mayoral office in London, will eventually select the squeaky-clean and ...
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Missing the vote
Critics of Labour's task-forces say they are not so much 'inclusive' government as a means of keeping dissenters sweet and delaying heavy expenditure. And no-one elects their members, writes Patrick Butler
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Governing the guv'nor
Would greater regulation put managers on a par with other professionals in the NHS, ask Peter Coles and Neil Goodwin
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Gene and tonic?
Testing embryos can identify genetic disorders. But is this the best way forward? Now the public can debate the ethical issues involved, writes Barbara Millar
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Forward march
Nursing students in Unison protest about student hardship during a National Union of Students march through London last week. Unison says student nurses often face high accommodation charges because of work placements, as well as the 'more common difficulties of just making ends meet'.
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Fighting tooth and nail
Evil Candy - half woman, half boiled sweet - does battle with dentist McCavity in a play designed to encourage children to take care of their teeth, sponsored by Bexley and Greenwich health authority.
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Roll over, Enthoven
The internal market in the NHS never really happened first time round, so it's time to give it another go, its champion tells Lyn Whitfield
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Educating neater
The health secretary wants to reform nurse education - and integrate it with changes to professional roles and the pay system. Barbara Millar reports
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NHS told 'don't give up' on social services
Health authorities and trusts have been urged not to give up on poorly performing social services departments, following health minister John Hutton’s announcement that 17 are failing so badly they are on an ‘at risk’ register.
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'No hiding place' as detected fraud doubles
The government has launched a 'counter-fraud charter 'on the back of figures showing that the value of fraud detected in the NHS almost doubled last year.
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Trust withholds overpayment details
A Scottish trust has been criticised for continuing to withhold details of an internal inquiry into alleged overpayments to managers despite a commitment to publish the report in full.