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Counsel homes
Housebound patients offered home-based counselling services by a primary care team have reduced their need for other services. Paul Gurney explains
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Short Cuts: GMC widens doctor revalidation programme
The General Medical Council has launched a consultation exercise as part of its programme to develop a system for the revalidation of all registered doctors. Four groups involving a wide range of health organisations have been set up to look at junior doctors, GPs, specialists and public health doctors. Anybody ...
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Short Cuts: Poor people more likely to suffer mental illness
A study of mental illness in Glasgow has found a strong link with poverty. The Greater Glasgow health board study says poorer people are almost three times as likely to commit suicide and six times as likely to be committed to hospital for schizophrenia as people from more affluent areas.
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Cutting deaths from head injury
A major international trial has been launched to determine whether the delivery of corticosteroids shortly after head injury can reduce deaths and disability after accidents.
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Watching expiry dates
The public health white paper sets out ambitious targets for reducing deaths by 2010. Mark Crail canvassed responses to it and found widespread scepticism that it would reduce health inequalities
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Days like this
MORI poll finds huge majority against trust plan. . . Reforms compromise rumoured. . . Labour councils urge managers' trust boycott. . .
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Injunction win for suspended doctor
A doctor has won a court injunction against a trust which suspended him after he carried out an unauthorised audit of cancer screening results.
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A world of experience
NHS managers who break their careers to work abroad benefit enormously but may experience problems on their return - and find that employers are less enthusiastic. Barbara Millar reports
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Mental health experts greet merger plans with scepticism
Guidance fleshing out plans to merge Britain's high-security hospitals with NHS trusts will do little to tackle 'entrenched problems' of recruitment, size and morale, according to mental health experts.
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Managers warn on PCT funding
Managers have warned that funding to smooth the development of primary care trusts must be pledged in the next batch of guidance on the reforms, due out later this month.
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Hard graft
Patients with end-stage renal failure may be overjoyed to receive a donor kidney - but it is only the start of the battle to prevent rejection and keep the patient well. Jenny Bryan looks at drug treatments that can help
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'People power' halts PFI projects
Local campaign groups have claimed that the failure of two major hospital projects to win private finance initiative approval as a victory for 'people power'.