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MPs put health officials on spot in Formula One tobacco ads row
Senior health officials were subjected to embarrassing scrutiny by MPs last week over the government's decision to exclude Formula One motor racing from its tobacco advertising ban.
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In Brief: DOH spending for support of 'special activities'
The Department of Health spent just over £500,000 providing central support for 'special activities' during the NHS 50th anniversary year in 1998, said health minister John Denham.
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Guidelines aim to tackle bugs acquired while in hospital
Health minister John Denham has announced new standards on the management of hospital-acquired infections, such as the 'superbug' MRSA.
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Pensions win for staff hit by 1980s privatisation debacle
Former employees of West Midlands regional health authority, who lost their pensions after being transferred to the private sector in the late 1980s, have won a multi-million pound settlement from the Department of Health.
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Healthy living centres kick off with £1m plan
One of the government's earliest health policy ideas is showing signs of coming to fruition with the announcement of the first healthy living centre to be funded by the National Lottery.
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Washing up
A nurse takes part in hand hygiene week, an initiative by Leeds health organisations to persuade healthcare staff and the public to help control infection by frequent and thorough hand washing. It follows a study that found 89 per cent of healthcare workers failed to wash every part of their ...
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Inspiration, not perspiration
The Ambulance Service Association's members don't balk at more millennium planning - they seem to relish it. Laura Donnelly reports
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Waiting lists are 'inefficient, obscure and unaccountable'
Waiting lists provide an 'inefficient, obscure and unaccountable' method of rationing care and should be scrapped, according to the King's Fund.
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Learning the hard way
An evaluation of training uncovered some harsh realities about student life and significant discrepancies between nursing and other students. Alan Randall and Penny Tamkin report
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Very model of a modern major general
The development of a clinical site management team, made up of nurses, has improved use of beds and allowed more admissions in one district general hospital. Diane Eamer reports
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Mental health green paper includes forcible treatment
'Radical' reforms to mental health law will mean forcible treatment for community patients who refuse to take their medication.
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In tents experience
With an emphasis on 'positive well-being', the Dome's approach to health issues isn't rigorously intellectual. But the Tube link is superb. Lyn Whitfield reports
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