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How the survey works
Men and women over the age of 16 were asked to rate their health on a five-point scale, ranging from 'very good' to 'very bad'.
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How can podiatrists be regulated by other professions?
Carol Harris's article, 'Toeing the line', (pages 24-25, 15 April) failed to express the concerns of the individual professions allied to medicine about the Health Bill. Current ministerial assurances to PAMs on retaining self-regulation are disinformation: self-regulation of the individual professions is not being proposed. State-registered professions that are currently ...
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Is your whistleblowing policy up to the job?
Few of the draft policies by trusts and health authorities sent to Public Concern at Work comply with the new legislation. Indeed, the wording of some of them, no doubt inadvertently, makes it more likely that a member of staff will be protected if they make a disclosure to the ...
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Key points
High-quality, dedicated management support was crucial to the GP commissioning pilots.
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Key points
A system for calculating the cost of clinical audits in terms of money and staff time has been in operation at Brighton Health Care trust since 1995.
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in person
Tees and North East Yorkshire trust has seven board-level appointments. Moira Britton, who headed the former South Tees Community and Mental Health trust, is chief executive of the new trust. She is joined by chair Eileen Grace, a Labour councillor and deputy leader of Middlesbrough council. Dr Kathryn Gillen, Eleanor ...
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Rock-a-bye
Jenny Hope (left), midwifery manager at Arrowe Park Hospital, Wirral, helps Nichola Brown with her newborn son, David, and an elevating cot designed to help disabled parents care for their children. Ms Hope designed the cot in consultation with occupational therapists Mandy Whalley and Gaynor Reid after a disability audit ...
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PCGs and trusts invited to bid for £30m walk-in centre funding
Primary care groups and trusts were invited this week to bid for a share of the £30m pot to set up walk-in health centres - and given just five weeks to set out their plans.
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Child abuse drink link?
Reducing the incidence of child abuse must be a top priority as the NSPCC insists (news, page 6, 25 March). But it will not be reduced significantly until our understanding of the role of parental alcohol and drug abuse in the suffering of children is improved. Real support must be ...
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Midwife found guilty of serious misconduct after death of baby
An independent midwife and former president of the Royal College of Midwives has been cautioned by the UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting after being found guilty of three charges of serious professional misconduct.
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So that's agreed, then?
The Treasury has plans to extend public service agreements to health authorities and trusts, and the targets it sets may get tougher. Mark Crail reports
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A rough ride ahead for PCGs being pushed through the precarious NHS
I concur with the sentiments and analysis of primary care groups made by Dr Michael Dixon of the NHS PCG Alliance (letters, 6 May).
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Devolution heralds integrated approach
Ministerial appointments in Scotland and Wales this week underlined the determination of devolved Labour administrations to break down barriers between health and social services.
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Ensuring the disadvantaged aren't bottom of the heap
It is a pity that Donald Coid and Desmond Ryan ('Historical novel', page 28-29, 15 April) presented their important comment on the challenge of de-industrialisation in such a gratuitously negative way, and arguably several years behind events.