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in brief: Domestic violence
The NHS should do more to help victims of domestic violence, public health minister Yvette Cooper has said while launching a manual for health professionals.
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in brief: Shaping Tomorrow
Doctors' leaders are to write to every local GP representative in the country asking them for their vision of the future of general practice. British Medical Association GPs' committee chair Dr John Chisholm is to ask local medical committees to arrange meetings to discuss ideas outlined in the committee's book, ...
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in brief: Incorrect issue numbers
Two of the issue numbers published in recent editions of HSJ are incorrect. The issue of 23 March 2000, wrongly identified as no. 5695, is in fact 5697. The issue of 30 March, identified as no. 5696 is, in fact, 5698. This week's edition is no. 5699. We apologise for ...
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Boys will be boys
Men's health Perspectives, diversity and paradox Mike Luck, Margaret Bamford and Peter Williamson Blackwell Science 288 pages £18.99
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Hutton promises boost in equipment standards
Health minister John Hutton has responded to last week's Audit Commission report on equipment services by promising that standards will be 'driven up' and highlighting investment already promised for hearing aid and wheelchair services. NHS Confederation chief executive Stephen Thornton said managers wanted to end the 'postcode lottery of care'. ...
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Blair invited to surgery
Prime minister Tony Blair and health secretary Alan Milburn have been invited to spend a day in a GP's surgery by Dr Michael Dixon, a Devon doctor and chair of the NHS Alliance.
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Birmingham set to host defence medicine centre
Defence minister John Spellar and junior health minister Gisela Stuart have signed an agreement to create a centre for defence medicine at University Hospital Birmingham trust, which should open in April next year. The centre replaces the last remaining forces hospital in the UK, at Gosport in Hampshire, and will ...
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Giving a big OK to R&D
Change-promoting research for health services A guide for resource managers, research and development commissioners and researchers By Selwyn St Leger and Jo Walsworth-Bell Open University Press 236 pages £22.50
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'Six months to avert crisis' claim
The government has just six months 'to save the NHS', Christine Hancock, general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, announced this week.
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Question of attitude
How much do corporate culture and staff attitudes change when trusts merge? One trust surveyed staff before and after the process to find out. Louise Wallace and colleagues report
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Leading analyst dubs Labour health policies 'boring'
The government's healthcare policies have so far proved 'terribly boring' compared with the sort of initiative that might be expected in a second term, a leading policy analyst claimed this week. Speaking at the launch of King's College London's institute for applied health and social policy, Dr Perri 6, former ...
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High ambition
student nurse Sarah Roles peers down on the Houses of Parliament from the London Eye, before joining colleagues to lobby MPs for better pay. The lobby is part of a Unison campaign to restore salary and employee status to boost students' income.
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Strung along
The government's presentational handling of massive extra cash for the NHS has engendered wariness - and weariness - about its real intentions. Lyn Whitfield reports
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Welsh review group examines allocation
The Welsh Assembly has brought forward a review of the funding allocation system for the NHS in Wales, and appointed an independent review group chair.
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in brief: Alan Milburn
Health secretary Alan Milburn is wrong to distrust health authorities with modernisistion money, according to health service insiders. In a lift to HAs, 58 per cent of visitors to HSJ's website who voted on the question of the week did not back Mr Milburn. Forty-two per cent supported his stance.
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New coalition aiming to build on strategy for London
A Coalition for Health and Regeneration in London has been launched 'to ensure that improving the health of Londoners is on everyone's agenda across the capital'. It brings together a wide range of organisations, including the King's Fund, London regional office and the Government Office for London to create an ...
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Modernisation team will address sex inequalities
Public health minister Yvette Cooper has announced that the prevention and inequalities modernisation action team will look at ways of reducing 'the health inequalities which exist between men and women'. At a men's health conference in Birmingham, she also said the new Health Development Agency would look at what measures ...