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WHEN THE PATIENTS JUST DON'T WANT TO KNOW
We were interested to see that the study by Hilary Arksey and colleagues ('Tell it like it is', pages 32-33, 22 January) bears out the findings of a similar study we undertook into the needs of cancer patients' carers in Hillingdon in 1993.1 Their information needs were again identified as ...
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Doctors reject rescue plans for Worcester
Doctors have rejected Worcestershire health authority plans to re-organise hospital services in the face of an pounds18m deficit.
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Pay managers the same as other staff, says Dobson
Health secretary Frank Dobson has written to health authority and trust chairs, urging them to give senior managers the same pay award as other NHS staff.
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Vive la difference
While Britain and France are becoming are becoming closer in social and economic terms, as far as health is concerned there is a definite air of vive la difference.
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Equally determined over pay
'Staging the award will be a relief to those who would otherwise have to find money the NHS does not have, but it will have done little to inspire the confidence of staff who will see their salaries fall in real terms this year'
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O f debatable value
The white paper has little to say about mental health, but one organisation is trying to fill the vacuum via its web site.
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BY DAVID HUNTER Putting the 'national' in NHS
'If the theme of integrated care is to become more than just a catchy slogan, the performance management agenda becomes critical. And it has to be about more than sending in high-profile hit-squads. Their arrival is a sign of failure, not of sound management practice'
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Prevention is the cure
Crime is a public health issue, and partnership is the way to tackle it if experiences in Los Angeles County hold lessons for the UK.
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Walls come tumbling down
There were always doubts about the Chinese wall erected by the architects of the NHS Confederation to divide its health authority and trust arms. The idea that ultimate power could reside in two places simultaneously always seemed unlikely to succeed.
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A tale of four cities
Five inner-city general practices, four very different experiences. Kate Adams describes life for patients and staff at practices in Liverpool, Belfast, Glasgow and London
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Chain store Dixons
Chain store Dixons featured in a newspaper investigation this week after a freelance computer expert was reportedly 'shocked' to find a computer he bought as an ex-demonstration model held personal details about a psychiatrist's patients. The doctor said Dixons had assured him the computer would be wiped clean after he ...
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Has warned: don't rush to set up primary care groups
Health authorities are to be given a stern warning not to rush into making 'premature' arrangements for setting up the primary care groups proposed in the government's white paper.
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Putting health on the cards
Will the UK follow France and Germany in giving every citizen a health smartcard, asks Michael Cross
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Gro Harlem Brundtland: curriculum vitae
Gro Harlem Brundtland was born on 20 April 1939 in Oslo. She studied medicine at Oslo University, and obtained her MD degree in 1963. She received the degree of Master of Public Health from Harvard University in 1965.
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IN BRIEF
The NHS Confederation and the Institute of Health Services Management welcomed reports this week that the government is considering marking the 50th anniversary of the NHS this summer by announcing a permanent pounds2bn annual increase. Health secretary Frank Dobson is said to have urged the chancellor to boost NHS resources ...
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IN BRIEF
Organisers of a reunion for former NHS management trainees are appealing for help in tracking down graduates of the scheme. Around 2,000 high-flyers are thought to have passed through the programme over the past 41 years, but accurate records of who they are and where they are exist only for ...
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Test blunders claimed eight women's lives, report reveals
The deaths of eight women have been linked to smear-test blunders by the cervical cytology screening service run by Kent and Canterbury Hospitals trust.
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'Scientific' bid to make surgery safer
A regional public health director will meet trust medical directors this week in a bid to set up more scientific ways of ensuring that all doctors practise safe surgery.
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THE GREEN IDEA I'VE SEEN SOMEWHERE BEFORE
I wonder if other readers have noticed the uncanny resemblance between the draft green paper, Our Healthier Nation (News, page 5, News Focus, pages 12-13, and Comment, 22 January), and The Health of the Nation white paper published in 1992 by the Conservative government.