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    Key Points

    1998-03-05T00:00:00Z

    Reorganising a mental health service for elderly people to ensure most care can be given in the client's home has led to a dramatic decrease in admissions.

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    TRUST INTEGRATION IS OBVIOUS AND LOGICAL

    1998-03-05T00:00:00Z

    Thanks, Alan Randall. 'Why not trust in integration?' (Open Space, 12 February) is a nicely argued article which suggests integrated trusts are the obvious and logical way to organise local secondary care. (I suppose that is why they are not favoured.)

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    The home team

    1998-03-05T00:00:00Z

    A trust's reorganisation of mental health services for elderly people led to a dramatic decrease in

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    HERETIC

    1998-03-05T00:00:00Z

    False economy flaws screening procedures

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    IT IS LEADERSHIP, NOT STRUCTURE, THAT MATTERS IN MENTAL HEALTH

    1998-03-05T00:00:00Z

    Between them, Richard Higgins (Letters, 5 February) and Matt Muijen (Community Spirit, 22 January) pose the key questions for health service practitioners and managers. I hope some of the answers will be illuminated by direct experience of those caring for people with a mental illness.

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    Harry Keen Pocket profile:

    1998-03-05T00:00:00Z

    Genial academic medic and doughty campaigner. Distinguished career at St Mary's, Paddington, and Guy's hospitals. World expert

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    Our growing inequalities

    1998-03-05T00:00:00Z

    THE PUBLIC HEALTH GREEN PAPER ACKNOWLEDGES THE LINK BETWEEN POVERTY AND ILL HEALTH - SO SHOULD WEALTH REDISTRIBUTION BE VIEWED AS A HEALTH TARGET FOR THE FUTURE WHITE PAPER, ASKS JOHN APPLEBY

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    Going public

    1998-03-05T00:00:00Z

    An interim report by Sir Kenneth Calman outlines proposals to bring public heath to the fore of the NHS in the longer term.

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    What they said - NHS gobbledygook

    1998-03-05T00:00:00Z

    The most frequently quoted example came from the value-for-money unit of the NHS directorate at the Welsh Office. It described a bed as 'a device or arrangement that may be used to permit a patient to lie down when the need to do so is a consequence of the patient's ...

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    news focus

    1998-03-05T00:00:00Z

    Shenley Hospital pulled down its shutters and bolted its doors for good last month after saying goodbye to its final patient. In its heyday it had housed more than 2,000 mentally ill residents.

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    Opponents fail to stop single Welsh trust

    1998-03-05T00:00:00Z

    A single ambulance service trust is to be created in Wales next month despite vociferous opposition.

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    Killer facts

    1998-03-05T00:00:00Z

    Someone in England dies every hour from accidental causes.

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    No shortage of evidence

    1998-03-05T00:00:00Z

    EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE

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    Management today is full of dsfdfs BY MICHAEL WHITE

    1998-03-05T00:00:00Z

    John Maples is not a happy man. Though he gets tipped (sometimes) as one of the successes of William Hague's soon-to-be-reshuffled team, he is still smarting over Frank Dobson's reshuffle of 886 seats on NHS trust boards. Details were craftily issued just as Commons health question time ended.

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    Health secretary Frank Dobson

    1998-03-05T00:00:00Z

    Health secretary Frank Dobson, addressing the annual dinner of the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee this week, was apparently stung by criticism by one of the guests that he was boring. The committee named West Sussex health authority non-executive Knighton Berry as the culprit. He was unavailable for comment as the ...

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    Trust signs up to European working times directive

    1998-03-05T00:00:00Z

    A trust has claimed a first by signing an agreement with staff on issues covered by the European working times directive.

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    Cutting a figure

    1998-03-05T00:00:00Z

    On Friday and Saturday nights, Birmingham sees a vast influx of young people into the thriving clubs and pubs of the redeveloped city centre.

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    Plain English Crystal Mark holders include:

    1998-03-05T00:00:00Z

    Argyll and Bute trust, Central Middlesex Hospital trust, Derbyshire Royal Infirmary, Dumfries and Galloway health board, East and Midlothian trust, Fife health board, Gloucestershire Royal trust, Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster health authority, Lifespan Healthcare trust (Cambridge), Borders General Hospital, Cental Manchester Healthcare trust, Down Lisburn Health and Social Services trust, ...

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    Ministers welsh on consultation

    1998-03-05T00:00:00Z

    'Ministers appear to have made up their mind long before the consultation period ended, and... may even have done so before the public and health service had any say in it at all. That is not good enough'

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    HA condemns failed merger

    1998-03-05T00:00:00Z

    A health authority has threatened three trusts with job cuts after two of them refused to merge.