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Pioneering integrated mental health services
With reference to Elizabeth Bayliss's letter (9 July), recommending that services should work jointly, we feel it important to point out that in Hackney we are almost unique in having had jointly provided mental health services for the past four years.
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Red herring
GPs' terms of service and fees are set out in the 'Red Book' first published in 1966 as a slim booklet. It now covers 82 sections and about 70 separate fee rates. Angela McCullagh and others say it is time to get rid of it
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Interviewees
These came from three health authorities and seven acute, community or specialist trusts. They included:
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A life of their own
Amid the excitement over the start of primary care groups, it is widely assumed that Primary Care Act pilots will be assimilated into the new system. But some pilots are determined to continue to build on their successes. Thelma Agnew reports
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monitor
The Monitor award for this week's most entertaining press release must surely go to the British Psychological Society. It tells us that 'pooches are probably not psychic'. It is nice to know scientists have the time and resources to carry out such important research. A team from Edinburgh and Hertfordshire ...
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Passing the screen test
Computerisation can remove almost all the potential errors in cervical screening. And, says Mark Gould, it can increase productivity threefold
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Pay pitfalls
While progress on a new NHS-wide pay system is faltering, there is still a lot of common ground between unions and managers.
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Swindon
Swindon has a justifiable claim to be the birthplace of the NHS, says John Cannon, communications manager of the National Monuments Record Centre. 'The Great Western Railway's Medical Fund, set up in the late 1840s with a cradle-to-grave approach to healthcare, was a key inspiration for Aneurin Bevan.'
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It takes two to tango
What makes the relationship between chair and chief executive successful? Andrew Wall describes how a series of interviews with some of these 'couples' revealed the importance of personal compatibility
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Cornwall GPs to claim back fees for phone advice given to tourists
GPs in Cornwall are hoping to claim thousands of pounds in a dispute with the government over fees for telephone consultations with tourists and other temporary residents.
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UKCC considers ethnic monitoring - five years after recommendation
Nursing's regulatory body is considering how it can gather data on the ethnic origin of all registered nurses - five years after it was urged to do so in a King's Fund report.
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Arson probe after hospital fires
Managers have stepped up security at a Manchester hospital hit by two major fires in two weeks.
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After the bomb
As the first casualties of Northern Ireland's worst terrorist bombing began to arrive at Tyrone County Hospital in Omagh, health services swung into a co-ordinated response that confirmed the strength of
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All quiet on the western front?
A car with a drunken passenger almost falling out of the window veered into a parked taxi. The passenger's head hit the taxi twice.
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Milburn renews attack on market with scheme to replace risk insurance firms
Health minister Alan Milburn has angered the insurance industry by unveiling plans to change the way trusts cover themselves against non- clinical risks.
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One step beyond
An experiment in the Netherlands could point to the future for cross-border healthcare following a landmark EU ruling. But the Department of Health may challenge it. Tony Sheldon reports from Utrecht