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Dobson faces calls for 999 'tampering' inquiry
A government minister is calling for health secretary Frank Dobson to order an inquiry into allegations that a recording of a 999 call was tampered with.
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Box 3 - Main types of interventions evaluated in trials
brief psychological therapy (problem-solving therapy)
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Short cuts 24-hour helpline aims to fill housing advice gap
Thousands of people every year suffer homelessness because they get bad advice or none at all, according to a report by Shelter based on a survey of more than 1,200 people. The report marks the launch today of Shelterline, a 24-hour housing helpline. It can be contacted on 0808-800 4000.
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Box 2 - Aims of psychosocial assessment after deliberate self-harm
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).
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
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
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
Will devolution mean an end to a truly national health service? Paul Jervis and Robert Hazell examine the possibilities
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Monitor
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'
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
Devolution will bring health policy under the democratic control of the directly elected Scottish parliament and Welsh assembly.
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We'll take the high road
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
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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Give and take
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
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
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 ...