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Consuming passions
A Department of Health initiative could start a consumer revolution in healthcare research, claim its supporters. Annabelle May reports
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Sur vey confirms health inequalities
A national survey confirming substantial health inequalities is set to inform ministers' decisions on the location of health action zones.
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Community spirit
One of the UK's smallest community trusts and its local GPs have set in motion a proposal to merge and create the UK's first primary care trust. Patrick Butler reports
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COMMON WAITING LISTS COULD MEAN MORE MONEY
Moves to establish common waiting lists could have positive financial implications for the NHS.
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BY CHRISTINE HANCOCK Party to a vision of the future
If nothing else, 1998 will be a landmark for the NHS. Its year- long 50th birthday party starts this month, even though the balloons and birthday cake will have to wait for the celebrations which will mark the first 'NHS Week' in July. The mood is deliberately upbeat, but for ...
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Derbyshire inquir y: police examine case notes
A police investigation into deaths of patients at a psychiatric hospital in Derbyshire is examining the case notes of 26 people who were cared for on a single ward.
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FIGURES FOR THE 'VICTIMS OF COMMUNITY CARE', AND HOW TO REDUCE THEM
There is little with which we would disagree in John Mahoney's analysis of community care services for severely mentally ill people (Letters, 18 December), the principal focus of the Zito Trust's campaign being precisely those areas and issues he describes.
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Leaders signal merger of primary care lobby groups
Primary care leaders last week signalled their willingness to enter talks about a possible merger of the three main lobby groups.
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IN BRIEF
The deaths of as many as 24,000 people a year may be accelerated by the short-term effects of air pollution, the Department of Health's committee on the medical effects of air pollutants has concluded. But it noted that most of the deaths occurred among people with existing, long-standing illnesses.
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IN BRIEF
Director-general of fair trading John Bridgeman has announced that he will ask the Restrictive Practices Court to overturn its 1970 decision allowing drug companies to fix the price of branded, over-the-counter pharmaceuticals. The decision has angered drug companies and pharmacy pressure groups who claim the abolition of re-sale price maintenance ...
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Managers believe there are too many trusts
Most managers believe there are too many trusts and that services need to be reconfigured, a survey shows.
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Work set to begin on biggest PFI hospital
The government has given the go-ahead for construction work to begin on the biggest hospital being financed through private funds.
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Keep your eye on the ball
So not only does England only ever win the World Cup under a Labour government, but the weather is better, too. Even under the present regime no spin doctor has yet had the brass neck to claim cause and effect. But it does seem that health secretary Frank Dobson and ...
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WHY DIET IS A CRUCIAL BUT NEGLECTED PART IN NURSING PATIENTS BACK TO GOOD HEALTH
The views expressed by Patrick Duffy of NHS Supplies (Letters, 4 December) are endorsed and, indeed, voiced repeatedly by the state-registered dietitian. The evidence for the positive contribution of nutrition to clinical outcomes is well documented; however, patients still go hungry in hospital.
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Baby deaths case doctors want GMC hearing halted
Barristers for three doctors who face misconduct proceedings following the deaths of babies after heart surgery will this week call for the cases against them to be thrown out.
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Health board workers asked to repay cash
More than a dozen employees of Tayside health board have been invited to repay money to which they were not entitled.
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Only a quarter of bids for HAZ status will get approval
Four times more bids for health action zone status are expected than the government plans to approve this year, the Journal has learned.
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NHS par t-timers' pension appeals could land Treasur y with huge bill
Thousands of part-time health workers could win better pensions under a series of test cases to be heard in the House of Lords next week.
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Angel and death
Angel and death: Marlene Dietrich, the German actress transformed into a screen icon in the 1930 film The Blue Angel, shows how smoking was once portrayed as the height of sophistication. The image comes from Cancer Wars, a four-part Channel 4 documentary starting on Sunday. The first programme focuses on ...