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'Airline ticket' approach to consultations will hit needy
Suddenly we have been told that NHS Direct will go far beyond an advisory telephone service, with every practice connected to it and direct- access services in main streets and shopping malls, though independent investigators are beginning to question the cost-effectiveness of the basic telephone service.
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Foreign exchange: lessons from abroad
While international comparisons are always difficult, some lessons can be gleaned from the experience of other countries with stricter regulation than the UK. Such policies have failed to reduce the national drugs bill.
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Royal visits Patron has proved a loyal friend since 1965
I know that your list 'who does what' of royal patronage was not intended to be exhaustive ('Roll out the red carpet', 8 April), but I should point out that Princess Alexandra has been associated with our hospital since its opening in 1965 and agreed last year to continue as ...
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REFERENCES
1 Genetics Research Advisory Group. A First Report to the NHS Central Research and Development Committee on the New Genetics. Department of Health, 1995.
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monitor
Monitor has been much struck of late by Joe McCrae's charming new persona. Whisper who dares, but sources (as we journos put it) suggest that Dobbo's formidable enforcer may have gone just a little bit native down in Whitehall. Perhaps he has been reading his job description. It is a ...
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On the Wight track for making waves
The Isle of Wight's health improvement programme already incorporates the local community care plan, as did the three previous fully joint annual island plans for health and social care.
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Health promotion is key to public health
Public health may indeed benefit from a radical rethink, as suggested by Donald Coid and Desmond Ryan ('Historical novel', pages 28-29, 15 April), but it should also consider its relationship with health promotion.
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Ministers give London mayor a public health role
Ministers have bowed to demands from health campaigners to give London's mayor responsibility for public health issues.
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Unit pricing: public funding of genetics research
The Public Health Genetics Unit was established in Cambridge in 1997 because it was clear that, generally, public health doctors and policymakers were ignorant of the sciences of genetics and molecular biology, and their public health and policy implications.