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Short Cuts: Charity calls for government mental health 'czar'
Mental health charity MACA has called for the Department of Health to consider appointing a mental health czar in the wake of the appointment of a national heart director last week. Chief executive Gil Hitchon said: 'Cancer, heart disease and mental health are the government's top health priorities. We now ...
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In Brief: Institutionalised racism in the mental health system
Institutionalised racism in the mental health system is still hampering changes to services for black and ethnic minority users, according to a snapshot survey by Mind. Seventy per cent of respondents felt that providers were trying to improve their services, but 86 per cent said that the system still discriminated ...
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In Brief: UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting
The UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting says it is 'extremely concerned' that the government's plans to reform the Mental Health Act make no provision for the prosecution of staff who sexually or physically abuse patients, or steal from them. It also rejected a green paper proposal ...
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In Brief: Straw poll of visitors to HSJ 's website
Health service managers do not believe that elected mayors should run the health service, according to a straw poll of visitors to HSJ 's website. Voting started last Thursday, and by Tuesday morning the figures were 211 against and 21 in favour.
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In Brief: NEON
NEON - formerly Microscript - has announced e-Biz 2000, an integration server compliant with Windows DNA. It can transport data between information servers and applications; determine which data is to be sent where; translate source data into a format suitable for the destination; and provide links between integration servers and ...
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In Brief: Informer Systems
Informer Systems has launched Sentrinet access control software, to allow users to log on to a Novell or Windows NT network with their name and fingerprint rather than a password. The company claims elimination of password management from the IT systems support workload can save up to £150 per user ...
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In Brief: Stryker
Stryker is launching its Endosuite family of computer-controlled endoscopic surgery tools in the UK. The tools can be manipulated by robotic arms under control of either the surgeon's voice or via keyboard. More than 300 suites are installed in the US, where they save an estimated 15 per cent of ...
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In Brief: Health Direction and NHSpeople.net
Health Direction and NHSpeople.net have co-operated to develop and launch a comprehensive NHS telephone directory on NHSnet. The NHS192 directory is a webbased version of Health Direction's contacts database. It will contain details of every GP practice, primary care group and health authority in England, their equivalents in Scotland, Wales ...
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Boyle's law
The man in charge of implementing Alan Milburn's heart disease framework says he will achieve his aims by charm rather than brute force. Kaye McIntosh reports
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Commercial launch for WaX 'virtual book'
A new company, WaX Info, has been formed to market the WaX medical knowledge publishing system developed at Cambridge University's medical informatics unit.
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BMA hits out at 'frail' data in league tables
'The frail quality' of information in hospital league tables makes them of little use to patients, doctors or managers, the British Medical Association this week warned.
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Short Cuts: Lib Dems blast delay in releasing DoH target check
The Liberal Democrats have criticised the government's delays in releasing an assessment of all the targets set for the Department of Health.They claim that the 1998 white paper The New NHS has generated over 2,000 measures to be monitored - with more at lower levels. Liberal Democrat health spokesman Nick ...
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MPs back new personality disorder plans
Controversial proposals to detain 'dangerous people with severe personality disorder' have received tentative support from the Commons home affairs committee.
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Back to square one
Children from Our Lady 's School in Camden, north London, learn how to avoid food poisoning with a giant board game called 'Bubbles and Slime'.
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Short Cuts: Welsh Assembly issues social exclusion indicators
The Welsh Assembly has published 50 indicators mapping social exclusion. The report illustrates that many factors are concentrated in the Valleys, but also shows social exclusion in other parts of the country in pockets of urban deprivation. The figures show that 10 per cent of adults in Wales reported being ...