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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.
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Wales director under fire at inquiry
A senior Welsh Office official was this week accused of overlooking concerns about paediatric cardiac surgery at Bristol Royal Infirmary in the 1980s.
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WEB WATCH MARK CRAIL
Whatever became of health action zones? Since most exist almost entirely in the collective imaginations of their partner organisations ('early days yet to see results... process of building partnerships takes time...'), they are perhaps the ultimate in NHS virtual reality - and therefore natural web entities.
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Managers of community trust are doing a fine job
I am writing in connection with the news focus 'Open wounds' (22 April) in which I was extensively quoted.
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The Marples CV: coasting to success
Chief executive of Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch trust since 1992.
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Trust chief executive scoops director's post at IHSM
A long-serving trust chief executive is the new director of the financially troubled Institute of Health Services Management, following the departure of Karen Caines.
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Ex-manager in court on fraud and deception charges
A former trust manager has appeared in court on charges of fraud and deception. Walter James Hurley, 49, former manager of sub-contracted services for Lifecare trust in Surrey, is accused of committing six offences involving up to £500,000.
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Medical negligence changes will force swift 'owning up'
Radical changes to the way medical negligence cases are handled came into force this week.