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Nutrition of elderly people improved over 25 years
The first national dietary survey of the over-65 age group for 25 years has found that nutrition has improved over the last quarter of a century, but elderly people still tend to suffer from poor oral hygiene. The 1,700 people surveyed by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food met ...
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Prescriptions top 2 million each working day
The Prescription Pricing Authority dealt with more than 2 million prescriptions on each working day of the 1997-98 financial year, according to its annual report. The number of prescriptions rose by just under 4 per cent to 504 million, with each patient obtaining an average of nearly 10 prescriptions over ...
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29 October 1948
A gastro-enteritis flying squad has been set up by Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children. It is available for any hospital which finds itself in difficulties; it is staffed by trained nurses and headed by a doctor specialising in the work. The squad will come fully equipped, and is ...
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100m a year 'wasted' on prescriptions for drug treatments 'of doubtful value'
The NHS is wasting more than 100m a year on prescriptions for drugs 'of doubtful value' to patients, according to the doctors' prescribing bible.
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Minister announces 1m for Llandough orthopaedics
Welsh health minister Jon Owen Jones has announced 1m extra funding for Llandough Hospital and Community trust to improve wards and the orthopaedic outpatient department. The money follows the transfer of orthopaedic services to Llandough Hospital from Prince of Wales Hospital, Rhydlafar.
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Strait-jacket required
The NHS may have fared well financially from Tony Blair's comprehensive spending review, but, asks Lyn Whitfield, will the conditions it comes with prove too restrictive?
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On the record
CLIFF PRIOR is chief executive of the National Schizophrenia Fellowship. He chairs the government's mental health national service framework sub-group on long-term care.
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Professor Rory Shaw
has become medical director of Hammersmith Hospitals trust. He is a specialist in respiratory medicine and led the development of a new curriculum at Imperial College School of Medicine.
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Scenario one: a third way
There was a time when patients expected the NHS to be there on demand, however trivial the complaint. Yet as people became better informed they came to realise the limits of what the tax system can deliver.
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Whatever next?
Public service managers are trying to see into the future, not through a crystal ball but with a series of questionnaires. Mark Crail took a sidelong glance
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Managers summoned over Welsh waiting lists
Senior NHS managers have been summoned to meet Welsh health minister Jon Owen Jones to 'discuss their contributions' to reducing lengthening waiting lists.
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On the transfer list?
Managers were dissatisfied when health minister Alan Milburn refused to make guarantees about jobs or places on PCG boards at the IHSM/AMGP primary care conference.
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Kidney moans
Treatment for renal failure is missing its clinical targets. Mark Crail reports on new data
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Working together to support mentally ill people at risk
Chris Heginbotham, chief executive of East and North Hertfordshire health authority admits that a joint mental health risk team was set up on the suggestion of Hertfordshire social services director Ian White. Both were concerned about patients with a history of mental illness who were living in the community and ...
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Hitting an upbeat note
While a number of those attending the chief executives' forum would recognise the somewhat bleak mood described, I suspect others would not.
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Hillingdon strikers win reinstatement
A three-year dispute at Hillingdon Hospital has ended with an industrial tribunal ruling that 25 Asian domestic and catering staff, sacked for refusing to take cuts in pay and conditions, should be reinstated and paid compensation totalling almost 300,000.