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A fitting start
In the first of an occasional series on a health action zone in the making, Laura Donnelly looks at the challenges of linking up with other agencies
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Exposed to poisonous pleasure
Martin Ball has overlooked the strong evidence linking passive smoking with coronary heart disease, bronchitis, asthma, emphysema, conjunctivitis and the myriad of other respiratory, inflammatory and allergic conditions that bring so much pain, suffering, misery and cost to the unwary, uninformed or simply vulnerable individuals who are exposed to the ...
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Research on employee involvement schemes
I am researching the relationship between employee involvement schemes and employee commitment in a large NHS trust for an MA in industrial relations with labour law at Manchester Metropolitan University.
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Recognition of diverse information needs of PCGs is key to success
Your article on primary care computing by Michael Cross ('Burned Out', Special Report, 5 November) rightly draws attention to the critical importance of information to primary care groups, and the absence of easy solutions. However, the conclusion that PCGs must either 'plug existing practice management systems together' or replace them ...
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WEB WATCH MARK CRAIL
Sherlock Holmes would cast a cursory glance at the footprints left by a fleeing criminal before calmly announcing that the man would be found at Rotherhithe Docks aboard a Calcutta-bound tea clipper due to leave port on the next tide. And how did he know? Elementary, my dear Watson.
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Time to move on from counsel of gloom on personality disorder management
HW Griffiths' description of psychopathic disorder (Letters, 12 November) is clinically pessimistic, which is probably why he thinks it is untreatable. Judging from Dr Griffiths' approval of the Butler committee's report he would prefer this disorder banged up so he can concentrate on the really treatable illnesses, like schizophrenia and ...
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Donation rates linked with role of transplant co-ordinators
The role, recruitment and training of transplant co-ordinators must be reviewed if the availability of organs for donation is to be standardised across the UK, according to a report from the British Transplantation Society.
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Commissioner points to 'early warning role'
The health service commissioner's first report covering clinical complaints has highlighted the office's potential role as an 'early warning system'.
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Nothing will come of nothing
Why treat health authority managers differently from other staff groups?
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Chance to influence NHS pension strategies
The NHS pension scheme is the largest in the country, and possibly in western Europe, with 1.5 million members, 11,500 employers and annual membership contributions of £1.5bn.
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Safety catch
Michael Rawlins is to head the new National Institute for Clinical Excellence, but some feel that the appointment of a man 'used to working in a straitjacket' at the Committee on Safety of Medicines does not bode well.
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Vulnerable groups lose out on pregnancy care
The latest Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths Report has raised concerns about access to care for some of the UK's most vulnerable pregnant women.
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Place rehabilitation within primary care
It's a progression, it's a promotion, it's a priority ('Dobson pushes for rehabilitation', News, page 7, 29 October). But if the goal of new rehabilitation services is to prevent 'permanent disablement' by an early response to 'illness or injury', services will need to intervene early in the history of a ...
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Former minister calls for CJD compensation
Victims of the human form of 'mad cow' disease should be paid compensation for their suffering, a former health minister has told the BSE inquiry.
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Buyer's market
Books; Managing public involvement in healthcare purchasing By Carol Lupton, Stephen Peckham and Pat Taylor Open University Press 176 pages £16.99
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In brief
Ministers are to issue guidelines to 'ensure greater national consistency in the uptake' of the controversial multiple sclerosis drug beta interferon. The government was responding to pressure from MPs and patients' groups over inconsistencies in the availability of the drug. Harry Barnes, MP for North East Derbyshire, claimed that only ...