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An increase in the number of complications following male circumcisions performed by non-professionals led to the establishment of a special clinic for religious circumcisions.
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The performance indicators currently in use are not reliable for assessing individual GPs or identifying poor performers.
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Making a point:
Making a point: a midwife signs a postcard backing a Royal College of Midwives campaign for a 'fair deal' on pay and action to tackle staff shortages. The RCM hopes to deliver 30,000 postcards to Parliament to 'maintain pressure' on ministers in the run-up to an announcement by the nursing, ...
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Making their marker
Paul Myers is a GP and senior lecturer at the department of general practice and primary care, St Bartholomew's and the Royal London School of Medicine.
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monitor
Monitor wouldn't wish to suggest anyone was panicking about the millennium bug, but when hospitals start sinking their own wells to ensure continued water supplies 'just in case', there must be something going on. Northwick Park Hospital communications manager Brian Goodinson says the idea does hold other attractions, even if ...
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Such an old story
From poor law to community care The development of welfare services for elderly people 1939-1971 (2nd edition 1998) By Robin Means and Randall Smith The Policy Press 332 pages £45
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Box 1. Initial set of PCG functions: July 1998
Improve the health of the population within the primary care group
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Short cuts: Hayman details £10m of colorectal cancer projects
Junior health minister Baroness Hayman has unveiled details of how £10m set aside for improving colorectal cancer services will be spent. Examples include £104,000 for a 'fast-track' clinic in Eastbourne and £36,000 for Birmingham Women's Hospital to investigate genetic links in the disease, which kills 20,000 people a year. Health ...
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Environmental 'showpiece' gets £25.7m overhaul
St Mary's Hospital trust has been given the go-ahead for a £25.7m programme to replace the hospital's steel cladding.
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In favour of outreach, 'fretting' about rights
I was sorry to see that Michael White has misread the source of the King's Fund's 'fretting' (politics, 17 December).
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Patients win right to use medical records access act in litigation
A court ruling has now made it clear that there is nothing to stop patients using the Access to Health Records Act - which was never intended to be used in litigation - rather than the standard litigation procedures.
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Psychopathic disorder Therapy, rather than punishment for children, adolescents and adults
I would like to clarify several points in response to HW Griffiths' letter on psychopathic disorder (17 December).
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Short cuts: Alliance against assault follows smacking research
An alliance has been launched under the name Children are Unbeatable! to lobby for children to be given the same legal protection against assault as adults. Around 200 organisations, including a number of medical royal colleges, are involved. The Department of Health last week received research from Save the Children ...
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Short cuts: PFI-funded hospital to go ahead on greenfield site
Swindon and Marlborough trust has been given planning permission for a replacement for Princess Margaret Hospital after deputy prime minister John Prescott decided not to call the plans in for a public inquiry. The private finance initiative-funded hospital will be built on a greenfield site on the edge of Swindon, ...
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Size does matter in ambulance performance
In your article about performance indicators (news, page 2, 10 December) it would have been helpful if you had pointed out that the London Ambulance Service received more complaints than other ambulance services because it is considerably larger than any other service in the country.
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Angry MPs call for end to 'blurred roles' between health and social services
Weed all about it:
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Sex-change judgement appeal
North West Lancashire health authority is seeking leave to appeal against a judgement quashing its decision not to fund gender reassignment surgery costing £7,000-£9,000 for three male-to-female transsexuals.