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Grant aimed at helping mentally ill find employment
The National Schizophrenia Fellowship has been awarded £170,000 by the Department for Education and Employment to help people with severe mental illness into sustained employment in London and Essex. It is believed to be the first time money from employment - rather than social care - has been used to ...
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Streets ahead
A project with a GP surgery is providing healthcare for homeless people who often can't get access to it. But its funding is in danger, writes Kaye McIntosh
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Dramatic figures on obesity spark new action plan
A new action plan to tackle rising levels of obesity has been announced by public health minister Tessa Jowell following new figures showing dramatic increases in the last five years. The Health Survey for England: adult reference tables 1997 shows that 17 per cent of men and 20 per cent ...
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Time to set a finishing line Ministers should say what the NHS reforms must achieve in the long term
Prime minister Tony Blair made his first foray into the health service since last year's NHS 50th anniversary this week (see news, pages 2-3). His appearance to launch 20 new 'walk-in centres' and announce a dramatically widened NHS Direct demonstrates how seriously this government takes primary care reform.
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Treasury accused of stalling PFI
The Department of Health has given outline approval for 10 third- wave private finance initiative hospital building schemes amid concerns that an overall review of PFI is being stalled by Treasury interference.
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Blair offers £280m for walk-in centres
Prime minister Tony Blair has unveiled a £280m package to improve patient access to the NHS.
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£48m boost to help reduce social exclusion in Wales
Welsh secretary Alun Michael has announced that £48m will be spent tackling social exclusion in the principality over the next three years. The first tranche of £8m, to be spent in the current financial year, will support drug and alcohol treatment services, promote local initiatives to encourage young people away ...
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Jobs at risk as trusts 'face £100m crisis'
Patient services and jobs are at risk as London trusts face a £75m cash crisis, figures obtained by HSJ show.
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Failed software fiasco costs hospital £64,000
A Trent hospital has written off nearly £64,000 because a specialist computer package was not up to the job.
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Secret service
The NHS Executive is to set up a special national authority for security and confidentiality, says its new head of information management and technology policy, Dr Peter Drury.
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Outside the NHS
BT: flat rate of £280 a day for staff on call on 31 December or 1 January plus £55 hourly bonuses, on top of existing bank holiday premiums.
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monitor
Monitor can report that it's New NHS, New Upholstery in Frank Dobson's Richmond House eyrie. Our interior decor correspondent called in recently to find the dull grey sofas of the Bottomley-Dorrell era swept away and replaced by a couple of homely burgundy settees. And at no extra cost, either. Turns ...
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'Nothing like it used to be'
Jenny Bond, the BBC's royal correspondent, has trailed many a royal visitor round various healthcare establishments. She believes the visits are useful. 'I have seen it all around the world,' she says. 'After they leave, the staff and patients' day is brightened and their spirits lifted.
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Inside stories
Parc prison, a privately run local prison with 800 inmates, has contracted out its healthcare to Bridgend and District trust since late 1997.
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Putting the initiatives in initiative-itis
A £1m budget for human resources 'beacons' of 'excellence in managing people' across the organisation. To reward 'positive and imaginative approaches' in areas including recruitment and retention, equality and training plans to support clinical governance. HR beacons will have to disseminate good practice.
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Targeted team's help for homeless people
I read with interest Steve Ainsworth's article on access to GP services ('Left out in the cold', page 23, 11 March). It is too easy, however, to blame GPs for failing to address the health needs of homeless people.
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Looking for good information? Try the library
I was surprised to see no mention in your feature on clinical governance ('PA for the course', page 26, 11 March) of the importance of the library and information service in the hospital.