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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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On the record
Roger Kline is national secretary (health) for the MSF trade union, which has 65,000 members in the NHS. He is also head of labour relations for the union's community practitioners and health visitors' association.
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Written off 'Rolls-Royce'
In the mid-1980s, Greenwich District Hospital looked as if it had a future. The 1960s building was due to be redeveloped, allowing specialist services to move from neighbouring hospitals. Plans included a tunnel link to new buildings over the road, moving car parking to the roof and reducing reliance on ...
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WEB WATCH
It has probably already become inevitable that the new National Institute for Clinical Excellence will have its own website on which to set out all the good things that people can and should be doing. But what about the Commission for Health Improvement? Will it engage in virtual naming and ...
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Lighthouse will stay at home in pounds2m rescue package deal
The London Lighthouse HIV and AIDS charity appears to have won its battle to stay in its purpose built premises - but its residential services are still set to close.
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Two issues for 2000
Medical device companies are not collectively refusing to sign the NHS Supplies Year 2000 deed (News, page 7, 2 July). The Association of British Health-Care Industries has advised its members that an alternative declaration should be submitted.
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Blair said little about a healthier society
Your report of my comments on Tony Blair's speech at the NHS 50th anniversary conference (page 10, 9 July) was not correct.
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Accountants bid for new body
NHS finance managers could find themselves subject to a new professional accountancy body if proposals put forward by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants get the go-ahead.