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Protocol progress
Littlehay Prison, Cambridgeshire, is one example of good practice. It has had an HIV policy committee for two years, with local clinical nurse specialist and communicable diseases specialist representatives. Chair is Stuart Copping, a senior healthcare officer at the prison. It has drawn up a protocol to ensure that any ...
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Worth preserving?
When Wexham Park Hospital (above) was proposed for grade two listing, hospital managers were not the only ones to react with horror. 'Gems or carbuncles?' screamed the Daily Express in February 1996 when the proposed post-war listings were announced: 'Concrete from 60s on list of treasures.' And under a photo ...
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Take your partners
Health action zones have begun to set up partnerships in their local communities. Mark Gould finds out who is doing what
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Monitor
Monitor is concerned for the health of cycling aficionados Lord Hunt, Peter Homa and Bob Abberley. But how to raise it with them (if that's not an unhappy turn of phrase)? The summer issue of One in Ten, the Impotence Association newsletter, arrives with a warning that riding a bicycle ...
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Which way lies the third way?
Musings about the 'third way' fill the pages of practically every publication that regards itself as a serious shaper of political debate and public policy. Similarly, the websites of the newish, brash centre- left think tanks are bloated with postings on the third way, accumulated through e-mail policy seminars. The ...
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New lease of life for PFI
Health ministers want to develop a 'hybrid' form of the private finance initiative which does away with the complications of service contracts. Matthew Limb reports from the Commons health committee
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Walls of ignorance?
Without national guidelines for the treatment of prisoners with HIV/AIDS, many are not receiving, or not complying with, combination drug therapy. Barbara Millar reports
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Ian Kenyon
has been appointed director of human resources and corporate business at Dorset health authority, where he will be involved in the development of primary care groups. Mr Kenyon was previously director of personnel and deputy chief executive at West Dorset General Hospitals trust.
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Hansard
The cost of in vitro fertilisation is between 2,000 and 3,000 per cycle according to Department of Health estimates. Public health minister Tessa Jowell said the estimates were based on information supplied by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the National Infertitlity Awareness Campaign.
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Young Lochinvar holds firm in reshuffle outreach
Saturday night was better than Sunday night last weekend. I spent Sunday (lovely weather, so they tell me) in the dark and windowless room I share with eight others in the Palace of Westminster, trying to predict Tony Blair's reshuffle.
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Omission to explain
Some years ago I changed my GP. I did not offer him an explanation, nor did he ask for one. He did not complain to the local family practitioner committee, nor did he write indignantly to the health service commissioner. I do not imagine for a moment that the GP ...
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Direct enquiries
NHS Direct, the nurse-led 24-hour advice and information helpline, should be available to all within two years. Three pilots were launched in March, and by the end of the year a second wave of pilots will cover 10 million people.
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Concrete issues
Gems or carbuncles? In the second of three articles, Ann Dix reports on the rise and fall of some of the pioneering hospital buildings of the 1960s and 1970s
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Shutting of community hospitals set to be referred on to Dobson
Plans to close two community hospitals in Oxfordshire will almost certainly end up on health secretary Frank Dobson's desk.
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Local commitment with a global vision
Having been a GP, an NHS manager, and a chair of social services, Liberal Democrat MP Jenny Tonge has a rare perspective across the rugged landscape of health and social care.
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HA chief executives will be given tough powers to ensure PCGs keep in line
Health authority chief executives are to have tough powers to hold primary care groups to account, according to draft guidance seen by HSJ.
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Price of new doctors may be change in role
Doctors may be forced to cede professional ground to nurses and other groups of staff as part of the price of a 20 per cent expansion in medical student numbers, the government has hinted.
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Doctors are fatter cats
Top doctors are earning more than chief executives in more than one-third of trusts, according to a survey of annual accounts.