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Take a long, hard look
A film recording peoples experiences of mental health services through the 20th century makes grim, and sometimes shocking, viewing. And its long - but not in the context of participants lives, writes Laura Donnelly
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Hitting the roof
An expected £17m saving turned out to be £5m, Sir Alan Langlands was forced to admit, as MPs quizzed him on a key PFI project. Lyn Whitfield was there
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Monitor
If you can't laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at? Monitor has always found other people a fairly safe bet. This week begins with a minions say the funniest things special - starting with the cute and curious world of public relations. Take the partnership between the prison service ...
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And the winner is plague!
No other disease has been responsible for so much social upheaval, ranging from a crusade, to the discovery that the medical profession is seldom as competent as it claims
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HA pays out £600,000 to member of staff who had amputation after fall at work
An occupational therapy assistant who had her leg amputated after falling twice at a hospital has been paid £600,000 in compensation by County Durham health authority.
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Short pledges £50m in 'final push' against polio
International development secretary Clare Short has pledged £59m to the 'final push' of a global campaign to eradicate polio, bringing the UK's total contribution to £130m. The funding will go to the Indian government's Pulse Polio Initiative and the World Health Organisation's Polio Eradication Initiative aimed at six countries in ...
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HA chair urges smokers outside after burns death
Birmingham health authority chair Bryan Stoten has highlighted the death of a 53-year-old Solihull woman in a plea to smokers not to smoke at home, and particularly not in bed. She died after suffering 40 per cent burns in a fire that started after she fell asleep while smoking.
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Scots ambulances get priority system after target failures
Scotland's ambulance service is set to introduce a priority despatch system following a National Audit Office finding that just one in three Glasgow ambulances reached a 999 incident within seven minutes, against a target of one in two.
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Welsh trusts agree millennium working bonus deal
A last-`minute agreement has been reached on millennium pay by trusts in Wales. Staff working between 8pm on new year's eve and 12pm on 1 January will receive an additional payment of £100 and extra time off in lieu, on top of normal bank holiday entitlements. Welsh health and social ...
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Jim'll fix it, but Mr Poplar he ain't
By strange coincidence, the previously little-known MP for Poplar and Canning Town, Jim Fitzpatrick, has been thrust into the limelight as a key aide to both the current health secretary, Alan Milburn, and former health secretary Frank Dobson.
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In brief: Alan Milburn
Health secretary Alan Milburn launched what is claimed to be the biggest-ever tobacco education campaign in England last week by unveiling a poster urging smokers to 'leave your cigarettes in the 20th century'. The threeyear campaign includes a helpline and website.
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In brief: Alan Milburn
Health secretary Alan Milburn has given the green light to a £75m redevelopment at King's College Hospital in south-east London. The project will create a new six-storey hospital wing, a regional neurosciences centre and centralise the hospital's services on one site. Work on the new building, which is being funded ...
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In brief: NHS among European countries
Italy is the biggest user of the NHS among European countries, spending £3.1m in 1998-99 on referring patients to the NHS for treatment. Ireland spent just under £3m on planned NHS treatment; a further £3.5m was claimed back by the NHS for treating Irish citizens on an unplanned basis. Overall, ...
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Andy Biotic wins award for plain-speaking DoH
The Department of Health has won a Plain English Campaign award for a leaflet intended to cut overuse of antibiotics.
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Upping the anti
Anti-abortionists in Scotland are on the march, threatening the security of those working in family planning clinics. Colin Wright reports