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on the record
DONALD REID is the chief executive of the Association for Public Health. He was previously executive director of the Health Education Authority, specialising in programmes for youth and smoking prevention. He is an international consultant on tobacco control strategies.
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In person
London Ambulance Service trust has appointed its first medical director. Fionna Moore (above), an accident and emergency consultant at Charing Cross and Hammersmith hospitals, will be working for LAS two days a week and providing clinical guidance on patient care. LAS has also promoted Wendy Foers to the post of ...
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Reel lives
Was an NHS trust right to allow TV cameras onto a psychiatric ward? Lynn Eaton reports on the row
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Key Points
There is some evidence that the British public would like to see an expansion of telephone advice lines.
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Key Points
The growth of telephone advice lines has been partly driven by managed care schemes, keen to reduce use of health services.
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Send in the hit squad
Send in the hit squad: health minister Alan Milburn launches a consultation document on a performance framework for the NHS at an Adam Smith Institute seminar. Last Wednesday's seminar on raising standards in healthcare was one of a series of events organised by the right-wing think-tank on 'achieving Labour's aims'. ...
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HAs turn to private sector for mental health services
Health authorities frustrated by the way mental health services are provided are increasingly turning to the private sector for solutions, a nationwide survey shows.
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Half a league onward
Not everyone welcomes government plans to compare hospitals' performance. Lyn Whitfield reports
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PRO-SMOKING LOBBY IS ONLY SCORING OWN GOALS
Martin Ball, spokesman for a tobacco industry-funded pressure group (Letters, 15 January), claims that under-age smoking would increase if the legal age for selling cigarettes was raised from 16 to 18. If this is true - which is most unlikely - why does he object, given that the tobacco industry ...
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Getting physical:
Getting physical: Aberdare GP Shesh Sahai leads by example with a work-out on a rowing machine. He was among doctors from across south Wales who took part in an 'Are You Fit for Work?' event last week held at a Cardiff fitness centre. Its aim was to encourage doctors to ...
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Getting the needle
Getting the needle: West Lancashire teenage school students use word games and puzzles in a project aimed at persuading them to be immunised against tetanus, diphtheria and polio. The project was set up after research by West Lancashire trust senior lecturer Lily Batteson and school nurses Wendy Burchett and Dorothy ...
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Fund GPs pull out in protest at Labour plan
A Berkshire practice is thought to be the first to pull out of the fundholding scheme in protest at the Labour government's health reforms.
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View finders
Involving users in decisions about rationing drug treatments can bring a qualitative perspective to approving new drugs.
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GETTING THE FIGURES STRAIGHTENED OUT
An error crept into my article 'Home truths' (pages 30-31, 15 January). It should read:
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Nurses' fears for patient safet y - inquiry ordered
Hospital managers have launched an inquiry after nurses claimed they were so overworked that patient safety was at risk.
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Milburn gets new 'eyes and ears'
Salford people are blessed with 'courage, determination, wit and compassion, and... an unrivalled ability to see through falseness and to expose insincerity', said the city's Labour MP, Hazel Blears, in her maiden speech last May.
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Frank Dobson
One of health secretary Frank Dobson's special advisers has been involved in developing computer systems that will help ministers manage news more effectively. According to press reports, Joe McCrae has been working on a Department of Health system which analyses government activity constituency by constituency. It should allow Mr Dobson ...