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Watching expiry dates
The public health white paper sets out ambitious targets for reducing deaths by 2010. Mark Crail canvassed responses to it and found widespread scepticism that it would reduce health inequalities
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Cutting deaths from head injury
A major international trial has been launched to determine whether the delivery of corticosteroids shortly after head injury can reduce deaths and disability after accidents.
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Short Cuts: GMC widens doctor revalidation programme
The General Medical Council has launched a consultation exercise as part of its programme to develop a system for the revalidation of all registered doctors. Four groups involving a wide range of health organisations have been set up to look at junior doctors, GPs, specialists and public health doctors. Anybody ...
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Short Cuts: Poor people more likely to suffer mental illness
A study of mental illness in Glasgow has found a strong link with poverty. The Greater Glasgow health board study says poorer people are almost three times as likely to commit suicide and six times as likely to be committed to hospital for schizophrenia as people from more affluent areas.
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Counsel homes
Housebound patients offered home-based counselling services by a primary care team have reduced their need for other services. Paul Gurney explains
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Missing the connection
Clinical evidence is being undermined by inadequate access to the Internet and by poor training. Barbara Millar reports
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Dentists hold clients 'to ransom'
Dentists who accept children as NHS patients only if their parents register as private patients are to be 'named and shamed' by the Association of Community Health Councils for England and Wales.
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Short Cuts: Call to end uncertainty over long-term elderly care
The Continuing Care Conference has urged the government to act to end the 'uncertainty' faced by many older people over their long-term care in its response to the report of the Royal Commission on Long-term Care of the Elderly. CCC, a coalition of commercial, charitable and public service organisations, says ...
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Witness defends BRI's former chief
The management style of former United Bristol Healthcare trust chief executive Dr John Roylance has been defended at the Bristol Royal Infirmary Inquiry.
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Bring me sunshine
Prime minister Tony Blair and health secretary Frank Dobson tour Queen Elizabeth Hospital, under construction in Woolwich, south-east London. The visit coincided with government approval for a third wave of major NHS private finance initiative schemes (see left) and Mr Blair's attack on the British Medical Association's opposition to PFI ...
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In Brief: Head for your Pharmacy campaign
Doctor Patient Partnership is to distribute a million leaflets about pharmacists' services in a Head for your Pharmacy campaign. It will encourage people to consult pharmacists about minor ailments and explore how GPs and pharmacists can work together.
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In Brief: South East Institute of Public Health
The South East Institute of Public Health is to become a fully integrated part of King's College, London. It was formerly part of the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, which merged with King's last August. SEIPH provides expert advice, conducts research and runs educational ...
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In Brief: Screening for ovarian cancer may increasese
Screening for ovarian cancer may increasese, according to a pilot feasibility study. The study randomised more than 20,000 postmenopausal women aged over 45 into a screening and a control group. Those screened were offered annual measurements of the cancer antigen, Ca125, and ovarian ultrasonography. The study found that screening identified ...
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In Brief: US urologists devise way to predict risk of recurrence of prostate cancer
US urologists have devised a way of predicting the risk of a recurrence of prostate cancer after a radical prostatectomy. Using a study sample of 1,997 men who had had a radical prostatectomy for localised prostate cancer, the urologists studied the time it took for the concentration of prostate-specific antigen ...
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In Brief: Group to produce a map of genetic markers
A group, including pharmaceutical companies, academic centres and the Wellcome Trust has launched a two-year initiative to create a map of genetic markers which will be available without charge. The SNP Consortium will seek to identify single nucleotide polymorphisms involved in disease processes so that safer and more effective drugs ...
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Study urges oxygen booster
Optimising oxygen delivery to the tissues in patients about to undergo major elective surgery would be a significant and cost-effective improvement in perioperative care, a study in the British Medical Journal (24 April, page 1099) has revealed.
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No extra cash to fund Blair's nurse posts
Trusts will not be given additional funding to pay for the 'nurse consultant' posts outlined by the government last week.
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In Brief: Rodney Bickerstaffe
Unison general secretary Rodney Bickerstaffe will not seek re-election at the end of his current term on 31 December 2000. He was previously general secretary of one of Unison's three predecessor unions, NUPE, and will have been the longest-serving general secretary in Britain.