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    More a musty read than a must-read

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Information for evidence-based care By Ruth Roberts Radcliffe Medical Press 79 pages £17.95

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    Monitor

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Monitor isn't just here for the nasty things in life. In the spirit of partnership which pervades our glorious NHS, this week some handy hints to guide you through the clinical governance agenda, starting with a breakthrough from the Townsend Centre for International Policy Research, where they've stumbled on an ...

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    Mo Mowlam's new role

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Dr Mowlam has been charged with giving the Cabinet a 'reality-check' to test whether initiatives to tackle poverty 'are really working on the ground'.

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    Top managers sign millennium service pledge

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Trust and health authority chief executives have been ordered to sign a public 'guarantee' to deliver key services as part of final preparations for the millennium.

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    Penalty kicks

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    The dispersal of asylum seekers around the country under the terms of the new Immigration and Asylum Act will make it harder than ever for them to access medical services. Barbara Millar reports

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    MPs' ignorance shown

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Lack of knowledge about mental health laws does not stop MPs claiming a 'specific interest' in mental health, according to a survey by mental health charity MACA.

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    Teaming with ideas

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    A multidisciplinary team achieved impressive results in its attempt to alleviate winter pressures. John Edmonstone and colleagues explain

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    Going with the grain

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Artist Nicola Kerr Bone creates a healing mandala , a symbolic representation of the universe, at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital for world AIDS day. It was made from coloured grains of rice.

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    Sight for sore eyes

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Tibetans live in one of the highest inhabited regions in the world at an average 4,500m - and as altitude increases so does exposure to the ultra-violet radiation that damages eyesight.

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    Events

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Items are entered free for public sector, voluntary and professional organisations, but we need at least six weeks' notice of your event. Please send details to Uli Jaeger, HSJ , Greater London House, Hampstead Road, London, NW1 7EJ. Fax: 0171-874 0254. E-mail: hsjeditorial@healthcare.emap.co.uk Due to pressure on space, publication cannot ...

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    Reaching for the tissues on an emotive issue

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    POLITICS

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    Schizophenia Drugs

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Exciting claims about what 'atypical' antipsychotic drugs can do are marred by the poor quality of much of the research evidence, say Paul Wilson, Simon Gilbody and Anne-Marie Bagnall

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    Langlands rebukes HFMA as DoH turns the screw on media

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    NHS chief executive Sir Alan Langlands has rebuked finance directors in the wake of a survey showing that the NHS is set to plunge into deficit this year.

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    To retain doctors we must improve their working hours and pay for excess time

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Staff shortages on the wards: some solutions

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    Days like this

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Lobby opposes NHS Bill. . . Managers want reforms scaled down. . .£103m for IT. . . New DoH deputy secretary. . . Hospital plan opposed

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    Publish and be damned

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Release of a survey showing a likely £1bn NHS deficit brought the HFMA a sharp rebuke at its annual conference last week, reports Lyn Whitfield

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    Short Cuts: Numbers on nursing register fall to seven-year low

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Annual statistics published by the UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting show the number of people on its register has fallen to a seven-year low. The number of people registered fell 3,220 to 634,229 last year. But the number leaving the register fell and the number joining ...

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    Short Cuts: Scots secure psychiatric services at 'crisis point'

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    A shortage of secure psychiatric beds and an increase in referrals mean psychiatric services in Scotland have reached crisis point, according to the annual report of the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland. It says the State Hospital at Carstairs, which provides high-security beds for Scotland and Northern Ireland, will become ...

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    Computer icon

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Chief medical officer Professor Liam Donaldson watches staff nurse Damon Harritz Grech demonstrate the advanced clinical information system at Southmead Hospital, Bristol, with patient Mark Wainright.