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Concern for growing Northern Ireland suicide rates
Health and social services boards in Northern Ireland should designate a co-ordinator to advise on suicide and liaise with community and voluntary services, says a draft mental health strategy published last week. The strategy also calls for information and training for a wide range of professionals, more use of risk ...
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Livingstone pledges a healthy London commission
London mayoral candidate Ken Livingstone's manifesto, unveiled last week, promises to 'ensure that improving the health of Londoners is a central objective of all the mayor and assembly's policies' and to 'appoint a healthy London commission to advise the mayor and assembly on a health improvement programme for London'. Mr ...
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Chief defends private
A leading chief executive's attempt to stop his medical condition becoming the talk of his trust backfired last week when details of his private operation were leaked to the local press.
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Call for continence guidelines to be made mandatory
The Continence Campaign has called for government guidelines on continence services to be made mandatory. National co-ordinator Gill Kirk welcomed the 'thorough work and consideration' that had gone into last week's guidelines, but said it was a 'crying shame the government has no intention of actively enforcing its own recommendations'. ...
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In brief: Chronic medical conditions
The government should establish a ministerial responsibility for long-term chronic medical conditions as a way of recognising its significance and raising its profile, said Labour MP and health committee member Howard Stoate. Dr Stoate said : 'We have ceased to deal with it (chronic illness) with the urgency it deserves.'
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In brief: NHS logo
The NHS re-branding exercise, in which all NHS organisations are required to adopt the corporate NHS logo, will not result in any extra costs or work, said health minister John Denham. He added that new organisations such as primary care groups would save money by adopting the NHS mark rather ...
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Funding clash ends in loss of 'candid' Eastern board chair
A Northern Ireland health and social services board has lost its chair after a public spat with the government over funding.
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Blowing hot and cold
GPs are still resentful of the NHS Direct helpline, not least because of the funding it receives, Lynne Greenwood discovers
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Blade runners
In a 50-hour working week, an orthopaedic surgeon spends an average of seven hours operating. Are we simply wasting their skills, ask John Yates and colleagues
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Simple is still the best
Conventional surgery by specialists is still the key to eliminating tumours, alongside adjuvant therapies, writes Geoff Watts
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Battling mother is definitely not in the club
'Someone once described the NHS to me as a perfect illustration of the British class system, where groups are divided into categories whose members ostensibly live and work in the same world, but which actually do much to ensure that the dividing lines between them remain in place.'
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Bad reception as Gisela holds on to the party line
A page 2 special in The Sun sent me scurrying back to a neglected Commons debate of three weeks ago. You know the kind of package: huge 'NHS helpline doubles the cost of treatment' headline over a rather smaller amount of text - 250 words maximum - which does not ...
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Minister rejects Fritchie criticism of political fixing as 'anecdotal'
Junior health minister Gisela Stuart has indicated that the government is unwilling to accept a report by the commissioner for public appointments that concluded NHS boards have been 'politicised in a systematic way'.
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Ambulance staff walk out in dispute over back pay
Hull was left with virtually no ambulance cover for nearly three hours in an unofficial walk-out over back pay that 'frightened' union officials. Unison is now preparing to vote on official industrial action in a dispute over back pay, while Tees, East and North Yorkshire Ambulance Service trust says that ...
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In brief: Alcohol misuse
The Department of Health plans to launch a consultation paper about a national strategy to tackle alcohol misuse 'later this year', said public health minister Yvette Cooper.