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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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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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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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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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Queries over £1bn 'red tape' savings
An Office of Health Economics report has cast doubt on government claims that the current round of NHS reforms will lead to 'red tape' savings of £1bn.
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The £500m bill Mr Brown forgot Pension contributions change will cost the price of four new hospitals
The NHS appears to have developed its own variation on Parkinson's law (the one about work expanding to fill the time available). In the case of the health service, unanticipated expenses expand to use up money earmarked for growth and innovation (see news, pages 2-3). Let's call it Brown's law.
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Word on the wards: 'abysmal' and 'not acceptable'
John Oldham on 140-bed Roundhay wing: 'The conditions there are, in my view, abysmal.'
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Survey reveals lack of access to dentists
Increasing concerns about access to NHS dentists and a shortage of general dental practitioners have been highlighted in a survey of health authorities.
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Tackling poor hospital performance - an alternative to disciplinary action
Birmingham Heartlands Hospitals is debating the introduction of a framework providing an alternative route to existing disciplinary procedures for tackling poor performance.
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Carers can become casualties when a family member fights addiction
There has been much in the media recently about the needs of carers. One group which falls into this category is made up of those members of families who have to cope with another family member's addiction. These people may be adults, adolescents or children.
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Major hospital blaze prompts chief to protest against insurance orders
The chief executive of a hospital involved in a major fire has written to health secretary Frank Dobson protesting about orders that stop trusts taking out commercial insurance.