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    Hear here

    1999-10-21T00:00:00Z

    visitor Mrs Blake has a hearing test during an open afternoon at Royal Hampshire County Hospital's audiology department. Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare trust audiology services manager Helen Martin said the event was organised as part of deaf awareness week to' provide an opportunity to see what we do and increase ...

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    Kids' stuff

    1999-10-21T00:00:00Z

    Children watch as a section of a new nursery arrives at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel.

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    Launch was low-key but optimism was not

    1999-10-21T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    Yule remember HA's message

    1999-10-21T00:00:00Z

    Cambridgeshire health authority is planning to send out 300,000 Christmas cards bearing such seasonal messages as how to cook safely, cope with a hangover and decide whether to call out an ambulance.

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    Monitor

    1999-10-21T00:00:00Z

    Monitor is delighted to welcome back Alan Milburn to the fold, and to reassure readers that the alarming, shark-like grimace he affects in so many photos is not intended to be as threatening as it looks. Monitor's sources recall a conversation in which our new lord and master blamed former ...

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    Staff views on old-age services are 'negative'

    1999-10-21T00:00:00Z

    Front-line staff working with older people would not like to rely on the services they provide in their own old age, King's Fund research has found.

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    The young ones

    1999-10-21T00:00:00Z

    For our occasional profiles of professionals in contrasting roles, Alison Moore meets two people promoting young people's health - one in a prison, the other an adviser on sexual health with a health authority

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    In person

    1999-10-21T00:00:00Z

    Dr Helen Matthews, a consultant old age psychiatrist at Western Community Hospital in Southampton, has become medical director of Southampton Community Health Services trust. She takes over from Dr Colin Godber, who has stepped down after three years in post, but will continue to work as a consultant. East London ...

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    WEB WATCH

    1999-10-21T00:00:00Z

    So you want to undertake a systematic review of discharge planning to find out what really works. But how do you know someone else isn't already doing the same thing? In fact, they are: details are on the National Research Register along with information about 42,000 other research projects of ...

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    Nurse wins £30,000 for arrest over 'armed robbery'

    1999-10-14T00:00:00Z

    London psychiatric nurse Lorette McQueen has won more than £30,000 from the Metropolitan Police. She was arrested by an armed police officer who suspected she was part of a gang about to rob a bank after she stopped to talk to two homeless patients while off-duty. Although Ms McQueen, who ...

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    'Creme de la creme' projects win action zone cash

    1999-10-14T00:00:00Z

    Health minister John Denham has named 59 projects in the first wave to win grants from the health action zones innovation fund. 'These innovative schemes are the creme de la creme of the many schemes being produced across the country to improve healthcare and modernise services, ' he said. 'They ...

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    Anti-smoking campaigners hit out at delay to tobacco ad ban

    1999-10-14T00:00:00Z

    A government delay on implementing elements of its tobacco advertising ban has been condemned as 'pointless appeasement' by anti smoking campaigners.

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    In Brief: Alder Hey Hospital

    1999-10-14T00:00:00Z

    An investigation has been launched into the retention of organs following inquiries at Alder Hey Hospital in Liverpool which found other organs as well as hearts had been kept from children who had undergone post-mortems. The investigation conducted by chief medical officer Professor Liam Donaldson will look at the retention ...

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    Enthusiasm bypass: Wales goes it alone

    1999-10-14T00:00:00Z

    An alternative to primary care trusts is likely to be developed in Wales, following a consultation exercise that 'did not suggest there is widespread enthusiasm' for PCTs.

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    Executive appeals for partnership

    1999-10-14T00:00:00Z

    Every part of the NHS must take steps to work in partnership 'with all parts of the local community', not just the groups with which they have traditional links, the NHS Executive has said.

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    Welsh Assembly in security review

    1999-10-14T00:00:00Z

    The Welsh Assembly is to investigate the lessons to be learned from an armed incident which 'crippled' an entire hospital.

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    In Brief: Avon and Western Wiltshire Mental Health trust

    1999-10-14T00:00:00Z

    Avon and Western Wiltshire Mental Health trust looks set to become the sole provider of mental health services in Swindon and Wiltshire following a period of consultation among user groups, local councils, trusts and health authorities. Services are currently provided by three trusts, including Avon and Western Wiltshire Mental Health ...