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Social policy 'must focus on inequalities'
The chair of the government's inquiry into inequalities in health has called for 'health inequality impact assessments' to be applied to all areas of social policy.
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The patients' guide - to reinventing the wheel
I was pleased to read Ian Wylie's review of The NHS Home Healthcare Guide (Books, page 35, 17 September).
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Poor health
Some of 'the best health data in the world' has been pulled together, for the first time, in a report clearly showing the link between material deprivation and ill health in Scotland. It reveals that deprived Scots experience greater mental health problems and have a higher incidence of coronary heart ...
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Hillingdon strikers win reinstatement
A three-year dispute at Hillingdon Hospital has ended with an industrial tribunal ruling that 25 Asian domestic and catering staff, sacked for refusing to take cuts in pay and conditions, should be reinstated and paid compensation totalling almost 300,000.
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Hitting an upbeat note
While a number of those attending the chief executives' forum would recognise the somewhat bleak mood described, I suspect others would not.
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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 ...