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Life after LIZ
Despite three years of London initiative zone funding, the needs of primary care patients in A&E are still not being met, argue Ross Lawrenson and Geraldine Leydon
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In Brief: Survey on waiting for admission
Shadow health secretary John Maples said last week that Londoners had been betrayed by the Labour government after a survey of London hospitals showed the number of patients waiting for admission for more than 12 months increased by 660 in the last quarter of 1997. The survey, compiled from Department ...
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Union ballots on action to resist PFI
Staff at one of London's largest trusts will be balloted on possible 'indefinite' strike action over plans to privatise health facilities and hundreds of hospital jobs.
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Choice Act
Anne Marie Keary and six-month-old twins Roisin and Sam, celebrated the 30th anniversary of the 1967 Abortion Act on Monday with fellow campaigners outside the Houses of Parliament. The event was followed by the launch of a campaign, Voice for Choice, to allow abortions in the first three months of ...
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In Brief: More to gain access to NHS dental services
A further 250,000 people will gain access to NHS dental services though government initiatives, health minister Alan Milburn said last week.
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Drug abuse is identified as 'major concern'
Health secretary Frank Dobson has described drug abuse as 'a major public health problem' and called for it to be tackled 'both nationally and locally'.
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In Brief: Complaints about changes to the dentists' fee scale
Tony Kravitz, chair of the British Dental Association's general dental services committee, has complained to the Department of Health about the way changes to the dentists' fee scale were introduced earlier this year. Mr Kravitz said the GDSC was not given time to take expert advice before commenting on the ...
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Read all about it
WHO CARES? The great British health debate By Oliver Morgan Radcliffe 240 pages £18.50
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Villains no more?
It is sometimes difficult to know with this government whether managers are considered part of the problem or part of the solution. Last week's fleshing out of plans for a system of clinical governance under which chief executives will be held accountable for clinical failings is a case in point ...
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on the record
ANDREW CORBETT-NOLAN is director of Health Services Accreditation and deputy chair of the Terrence Higgins Trust. A medieval historian by background, he joined the NHS in 1987. He has led the development of HSA since its inception in a pub in 1991 to its current status as a national programme.
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Poll position
Five health professionals who stood for election last May talk to Patrick Butler about their political lives
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in person
Ian Cumming (above) has become chief executive of the recently created Morecambe Bay Hospitals trust. He was formerly chief executive of Lancaster Acute Hospitals trust and oversaw its merger with Furness Hospitals trust and Westmorland Hospitals trust to form the organisation he now leads.
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Move over Oasis
People value health over the bad boys of pop. Cool Britannia has caught people's imagination and is welcomed for embracing the inherent creativeness and inventiveness of the British population, a report published this week by market research group Opinion Leader Research (OLR) says. But people are keen that the emphasis ...
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Measuring up
Dietician Marion Cliffe examining a kidney patient at Ysbyty Gwynedd Hospital, Bangor. Ms Cliffe has won funding from the Wales Council of Research and Development for Health and Social Care to study the prevention of malnutrition in kidney patients. Studies show that up to 40 per cent of patients are ...
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IHSM urges sanctions on quality
A call for sanctions to back up the government's new quality agenda was made this week after health secretary Frank Dobson launched an annual programme of national service frameworks.