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Global warning
The flu epidemic has sparked concerns about how the health service would cope with a pandemic - and one may be imminent. Wendy Moore reports
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Growing pains
Life-expectancy for people with cystic fibrosis has doubled in the past 20 years, and there are now almost as many adults with the disease as children. The best results are achieved when CF patients are managed in specialised centres.
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As if people mattered
A useful, wide-ranging, reference book, the emphasis here is on involvement in planning and improving standards of services. It will be especially useful in primary care.
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Misconduct proved: 93 axed from register
The UKCC'; professional conduct statistics show that 93 nurses, midwives or health visitors were removed from the register in 1998-99, and a further 34 were cautioned about their conduct.
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Academic takes up chair at Food Standards Agency
Health secretary Alan Milburn has announced key appointments to the new Food Standards Agency. Its chair will be Professor Sir John Krebs, former chief executive of the Natural Environment Research Council and a Royal Society research professor at Oxford Universitys zoology department. His deputy will be Suzi Leather, chair of ...
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BMA calls for GPs to be brought within race act
The British Medical Association is calling for GP practices with five partners or fewer to be brought within the ambit of the 1976 Race Relations Act as the Race Relations (Amendment) Bill makes its way through Parliament. A similar loophole excluding small practices from the Sex Discrimination Act was closed ...
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View from the opposition: It doesn't add up to a row of beans
Opposition parties were deeply sceptical about Mr Blairs promise, suspecting it was a sleight-of-hand to deflect mounting criticism of the governments handling of the NHS.
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Standards report seeks further change in appointment process
Dramatic improvements are needed in the way appointments to NHS boards are made, according to the latest report of the committee on standards in public life.
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HA backtracks
Leicester health authority is re-examining plans to move breast care, cardiac and intensive care services from the citys Glenfield Hospital, to turn it into a community hospital.
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Complaints evaluation slips behind schedule
Patients groups have complained of slippage on the NHS's evaluation of complaints project - ordered in November 1998.
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Blair line on GDP spend dubbed cynical
Prime minister Tony Blairs promise to increase the share of national income spent on the NHS to European levels in five years has been attacked as a cynical ploy by financial analysts.
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Blairs pledge rests soundly on funding through taxation
But many questions remain about when and what extra cash will appear
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Public health body to end contract culture
The demise of the Health Education Authority will end contract culture and poor co-ordination in public health, the head of its slimline successor has pledged.
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Lotto bother
Launched in 1998, the healthy living centre is a government initiative designed to encourage health-promoting activities in disadvantaged communities. The definition of health here is broad and includes the wider determinants of health, such as social exclusion, quality of life, environment and access to services.
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in brief
Health secretary Alan Milburn has warned that waiting lists will rise over the next couple of months because of the planned priority the NHS has been giving to winter emergencies. The number of patients waiting for inpatient and day-case treatment fell by 8,000 in November to 1,071,400.