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Working together to support mentally ill people at risk
Chris Heginbotham, chief executive of East and North Hertfordshire health authority admits that a joint mental health risk team was set up on the suggestion of Hertfordshire social services director Ian White. Both were concerned about patients with a history of mental illness who were living in the community and ...
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Kidney moans
Treatment for renal failure is missing its clinical targets. Mark Crail reports on new data
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On the transfer list?
Managers were dissatisfied when health minister Alan Milburn refused to make guarantees about jobs or places on PCG boards at the IHSM/AMGP primary care conference.
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Managers summoned over Welsh waiting lists
Senior NHS managers have been summoned to meet Welsh health minister Jon Owen Jones to 'discuss their contributions' to reducing lengthening waiting lists.
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Whatever next?
Public service managers are trying to see into the future, not through a crystal ball but with a series of questionnaires. Mark Crail took a sidelong glance
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Scenario one: a third way
There was a time when patients expected the NHS to be there on demand, however trivial the complaint. Yet as people became better informed they came to realise the limits of what the tax system can deliver.
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Professor Rory Shaw
has become medical director of Hammersmith Hospitals trust. He is a specialist in respiratory medicine and led the development of a new curriculum at Imperial College School of Medicine.
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On the record
CLIFF PRIOR is chief executive of the National Schizophrenia Fellowship. He chairs the government's mental health national service framework sub-group on long-term care.
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Strait-jacket required
The NHS may have fared well financially from Tony Blair's comprehensive spending review, but, asks Lyn Whitfield, will the conditions it comes with prove too restrictive?
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15 October 1948
The divorce between hospitals and the authorities concerned with public and social medicine has already been noticed and deplored. The issue now is to organise practical means of bridging the gap. There is great opportunity for closely integrating local authorities' preventive, after-care and social medicine services within the structure of ...
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NHS scoops £2m for treatment of drugs misuse
The Scottish Office has announced an extra £5m to tackle drugs-related crime and increase the availability of treatment for drug misusers. The NHS will receive £2m for treatment programmes. Other measures include a £700,000 national drug prevention team, plans for increased multi-agency working and a Health Education Board drive against ...
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Poll shows over-55s miss out on hearing tests
A MORI poll for the Royal National Institute for Deaf People has found that only 22 per cent of people aged 55 and over have had a hearing test in the past 10 years, compared with 87 per cent who had taken an eye test. RNID chief executive James Strachan ...
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where are they now? No 88 Guy Howland
Pocket profile Jovial, mercurial civil servant turned NHS policy wonk and patients' champion. Private secretary to the late Sir Roy Griffiths.
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Lights, music, and action
Care worker Sheena Carle (left) and Hilary Monger try out the new Thunderama at The Towse, a therapeutic daycare centre for people with learning disabilities in East Grinstead, Surrey, run by the Lifecare trust.