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Professor Roderick MacSween, professor of pathology at Glasgow University, has been appointed by health secretary Frank Dobson to the unpaid post of chair of the Unrelated Live Transplant Regulatory Authority until 31 July 2002. He is currently president of the Royal College of Pathologists, but his term ends in December.
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A self-management programme
A self-management programme developed by Professor Kate Lorig at Stanford University has operated in the US for several years. It includes symptom management techniques, nutrition, sleep management, use of community resources, medication and dealing with emotions.
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WEB WATCH
While the Department of Health continues ploughing good money after bad in an attempt to maintain its glorious technological isolation from the grubby world outside, our American cousins forge ahead, placing their faith in the very latest encryption software and the hottest and highest of firewalls.
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Audit reveals uneven services for children
Spending on mental health services for children and adolescents varies seven-fold across England and Wales, according to an Audit Commission report that finds 'little relation' between spending and need.
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Called to the bar:
Called to the bar: health secretary Frank Dobson watches patients using therapy equipment during a visit to Withington Therapy Centre last week.
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Merged public health body to get new head
The newly formed UK Public Health Association has decided to appoint a new chief executive to replace the present joint chief executives, Maggie Winters and Donald Reid.
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news in brief
A survey of 140 trust nursing directors, by Pay and Workforce Research and the newsletter Employing Nurses and Midwives, has found that their average basic pay is now 73 per cent of a chief executive's salary, compared with 66 per cent in 1998. Respondents said they had wider responsibilities, including ...