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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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Cautious note is timely as reference costs are being done on the cheap with little investment
John Appleby's short article ('Measuring efficiency', data briefing, 11 March) was interesting, but it concentrated too much on the apparent huge anomalies in cost to address some of the real issues. A few more points to consider...
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New framework is judged 'better than tables'
Managers' leaders this week welcomed the government's promised new NHS performance assessment framework as a 'more useful indication of the quality of patient care than crude league tables'.
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Partnership bid to ensure children get healthy start
Community Health South London trust has teamed up with national parenting charity Newpin to launch one of the first Sure Start programmes in the country. The programme, aimed at improving the lives of families with children under four on an estate in Southwark, involves a partnership with parents, voluntary organisations ...
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A bigger splash
Simon Carpenter from Avon health promotion services holds one of the residents of the newly enlarged pond in the nature reserve at Bristol's Frenchay Hospital.
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Breast screening halted in Cumbria
Health service managers were due to hold crisis talks this week after breast screening services in one of England's most sparsely populated counties collapsed.
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New year honour brought home the lesson that we need to recognise the impact of our mentors
May I, albeit belatedly, use your letters page to thank all the people who wrote to me following my inclusion in the new year honours list.
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MP calls for Dobson probe into 'conflict of interest' as ex-NHS manager gets job with IT contractor
Health secretary Frank Dobson has been asked to investigate allegations of a conflict of interest surrounding the appointment of an NHS information technology manager to an IT company which has a lucrative contract with his trust.
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National HIV strategy must set clear targets on prevention cash spending
Your report on our survey into how health authorities use the funding they receive for HIV prevention has helped further the debate about the quality and level of HIV prevention services ('AIDS trust attacks HAs in spending row', 25 January).
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Culture club: problem prevention
Despite cynicism from some doctors, 'more were inspired than usual' about the chance to 'get the culture right', chief medical officer Professor Liam Donaldson told delegates.
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Quality of life is what counts - not labelling
Cliff Prior from the National Schizophrenia Fellowship is absolutely correct to separate danger from diagnosis ('Personality disorder debate', letters, 25 March).
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WEB WATCH MARK CRAIL
The first 'working draft' map of the human gene sequence will be in the public domain by February 2000. By then, according to scientists in the UK and US working on the project, the position of 90 per cent of the 3 billion letters or bases that make up the ...