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    Box 2 - Aims of psychosocial assessment after deliberate self-harm

    1998-12-03T00:00:00Z

    to identify factors associated with suicidal behaviour

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    Community midwives visit for the first 10 days after birth and then hand over to the health visitor for the notification visit (the only one for which they have legal right of entry).

    1998-12-03T00:00:00Z

    Community midwives visit for the first 10 days after birth and then hand over to the health visitor for the notification visit (the only one for which they have legal right of entry).

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    Box 1 Feature which predict repetition of self-harm Repetition

    1998-12-03T00:00:00Z

    a history of self-harm prior to the current episode

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    Short cuts RCN secures £350,000 for nurse injured at work

    1998-12-03T00:00:00Z

    The Royal College of Nursing has secured an out of court settlement of £350,000 for former nurse biological science tutor Carole Webster, who was left disabled by an accident at St Bartholomew's and Princess Alexandra and Newham College of Nursing in 1993. A stiff door suddenly stopped, forcing her to ...

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    Separate ways

    1998-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Will devolution mean an end to a truly national health service? Paul Jervis and Robert Hazell examine the possibilities

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    Where are they now?

    1998-11-26T00:00:00Z

    No 91

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    Monitor

    1998-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Monitor always suspected it, but now the truth emerges - the Department of Health press office is indeed a branch of the British fiction industry. Baffled by the fact that the DoH web site's otherwise excellent press release database had enormous gaps - about one in five of the sequentially ...

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    London region must 'work as one NHS'

    1998-11-26T00:00:00Z

    London's health organisations will need to 'work as one NHS' to meet the 'challenge' of dealing with the Greater London Assembly and a directly elected mayor, managers have been told.

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    Key points

    1998-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Devolution will bring health policy under the democratic control of the directly elected Scottish parliament and Welsh assembly.

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    Passive smoking 'hoax' stinks

    1998-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Tobacco debate

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    We'll take the high road

    1998-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Women healthcare managers embarking on their careers have formed a networking initiative. It's just as well, when of the 25 chief executives appointed to head Scotland's new trusts only one is a woman.

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    Wider Lib-Lab remit hints at joint health policy

    1998-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Tony Blair and Paddy Ashdown's decision to widen the remit of the co-operation between their two parties has given rise to speculation that Labour and the Liberal Democrats might at some stage work together on health policy.

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    Something soft for hard times

    1998-11-26T00:00:00Z

    LIVE FROM LEEDS DAVID HUNTER

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    Give and take

    1998-11-26T00:00:00Z

    There are about 65 transplant co-ordinators in the UK, but funding is uneven - even though trusts gain financially from doing transplants.

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    A fitting start

    1998-11-26T00:00:00Z

    In the first of an occasional series on a health action zone in the making, Laura Donnelly looks at the challenges of linking up with other agencies

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    Exposed to poisonous pleasure

    1998-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Martin Ball has overlooked the strong evidence linking passive smoking with coronary heart disease, bronchitis, asthma, emphysema, conjunctivitis and the myriad of other respiratory, inflammatory and allergic conditions that bring so much pain, suffering, misery and cost to the unwary, uninformed or simply vulnerable individuals who are exposed to the ...

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    Events

    1998-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Items are entered free for public sector, voluntary and professional organisations, but we need at least six weeks' notice of your event. Please send details to Uli Jaeger, HSJ, Greater London House, Hampstead Road, London NW1 7EJ. Fax: 0171-874 0254. E-m

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    Research on employee involvement schemes

    1998-11-26T00:00:00Z

    I am researching the relationship between employee involvement schemes and employee commitment in a large NHS trust for an MA in industrial relations with labour law at Manchester Metropolitan University.

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    Recognition of diverse information needs of PCGs is key to success

    1998-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Your article on primary care computing by Michael Cross ('Burned Out', Special Report, 5 November) rightly draws attention to the critical importance of information to primary care groups, and the absence of easy solutions. However, the conclusion that PCGs must either 'plug existing practice management systems together' or replace them ...

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    Steady as he goes: the Rawlins CV

    1998-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Born