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Focuses on the working papers on the main proposals for the government's white paper, Working for Patients in Great Britain. Practice budget for general practitioners; Pressure on drug expenditure; Improvement of quality of care; Role of general managers in the leadership of the Family Practitioners Committee.

Evaluates 'Working for Patients,' a paper submitted by Hospital Junior Staff Committee to the British Medical Association in Great Britain. Concerns regarding the terms and conditions of the services of the junior doctors; Citation on the motion and proposals of the committee; Effect of the proposal to patient care. INSET: Strategy to reduce hours of work.

Presents comments on the impact of white paper on the National Health Service (NHS) of Great Britain. Assertions on the significance and focus of the paper in specialist services; Comments on the significance of chapters four, five and six of the paper; Account on the effect of the paper on minority groups.

Focuses on the alternative of the white paper regarding the improvement of the effectiveness of clinical care in the National Health Service in Great Britain. Definition of quality of care; Increase of the annual rate of medical care expenditure; Standardization of diagnostic methods.

Focuses on the reaction of the British Medical Association to the proposals contained in the white paper 'Working for Patients' in Great Britain. Concerns on the harmful effects of the proposals; Opposition to centralized bureaucracy and the methods for paying doctors; Criticisms on the lack of proper consultation with the medical profession.

Examines the reaction of general practitioners towards the proposals contained in the white paper 'Working for Patients' in Great Britain. Rejection of the proposals by general practitioners; Criticisms on the implementation of fixed budgets for specified surgical operations; Concerns on the cost effectiveness of the National Health Service.

Focuses on the growth and restructuring of the National Health Service (NHS). Impact of medical insurance and hospital independent revenues; Role of the NHS as the catalysts; Collaboration of top companies for better hospitals.

Focuses on team approach in health care in Great Britain. Medical personnel's adaptation and development of new skills; Necessity of clarifying training, status, authority, working relationship, career structure and remuneration of affected personnel.

Reports the launching of the British government's white paper on health service. Identification of hospitals covered by the National Health Service trusts; Features of the white paper; Arguments on hospital privatization.

Focuses on the funding of the National Health Service in Great Britain. Response of the government to the problem of NHS crisis in 1987 to 1988 period; Proposals for efficient NHS; Significance of white paper on the performance of medical professionals; Need of measures of patient satisfaction to medical services.

Focuses on the verdict of the House of Commons Social Services Committee regarding the white paper 'Working for Patients' in Great Britain. Rejection of Conservative Party on the proposal; Overview of the points cited by the Committee; Concerns of the Committee over the budget allocations of the program.

Focuses on the criticisms of the Central Committee for Community Medicine and Community Health on the white paper 'Working for Patients' in Great Britain. Prevalence of the concept of short stay services and general practice; Vagueness in the role of private hospitals and community health service; Uncertainty in the impact of the structure on public health doctors.

Features the white paper and the details to the government contract for general practitioners in Great Britain. Reduction of the working hours of junior doctors; Views of rural practitioners of the new contract; Discussion on the anxiety among honorary secretaries of the British Medical Association on the annual gathering.

Focuses on the underdiagnosing and misunderstanding of the attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in Great Britain. What is attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; Reference to the confusion over the nature of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; Details on hyperkinesis versus attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; In-depth look at attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. INSET: Common coexisting conditions and complications of attention....

Reports the effects of the proposal of Mr. Kenneth Clarke on medical academics in Great Britain. Importance of undergraduate teaching in general practice; Introduction of legal framework for self governing hospitals by the government; Advantages of the proposed system for consultant contracts and job descriptions.

Focuses on the implementation of another health services in Great Britain. Provision of low antenatal care; Assessment of contraceptive services; Lack of consultation and abrupt handling of criticisms.

Reports the political stand of Doctor Christopher Tiarks on Welsh general practitioners (GP) against the Government proposals in Great Britain. Argument of Tiarks against the dissuasive capability of public opinion on Government over the proposals; Impact of proposals on Welsh GP; Support of local GP to the campaign of Tiarks.

Reports on the move of doctors not to cooperate in the implementation on proposal to reform National Health Services (NHS) in Great Britain. Arguments to persuade government and public on impracticality of proposal; Failure on acknowledging NHS problem; Impairment of the ability of hospital authorities to coordinate services effectively.

Focuses on the medical debate regarding the plasma cholesterol content of eggs in Great Britain. Health risks attributed to cholesterol consumption; Epidemiological studies regarding low cholesterol as the major aspect in cardiovascular diseases; Case analysis on mortality resulting from plasma cholesterol.

Discusses the British government's genetic white paper which includes a vision for a new health care system offering personalized health care that is based on a person's genetic profile. Statements by Health Secretary John Reid; The white paper which outlines the potential for gene therapy; The Human Genetic Commission which has been asked to consider the case for screening babies at birth and storing genetic information for future use; Criticism of governmental safe-guards for accessing genetic test results.

This article looks at the Karolinska 2 report which compared cancer survival rates in 25 countries and found that access to cancer drugs affected survival concluding that the licensing process should be speeded up with equitable access to all. British epidemiologist Michel Coleman who heads Cancer Research UK says the study is flawed and the conclusion questionable. Coleman claims that estimates rather than actual survival rates were used and the benefits from access to drugs information was skewed. Further, he suggested that study sponsor, Roche Pharmaceuticals, had input into the conclusion. The charges are denied by Roche and by the authors of the study.

The article reports on guidelines on the prevention and management of obesity which were issued by Great Britain's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence and were used by the periodical "British Medical Journal" to build its own model on obesity management and treatment. A discussion of the benefits associated with diet and exercise in the treatment of obesity and the negative results of rapid weight loss and wight loss drug use in its treatment, is presented. The benefits of bariatric surgery are discussed.

Reports the commitment of British Medical Association medical students on medical education and training in the white paper and working papers. Necessity of medical education to become competent doctors; Clarity on the obligation of self-governing hospitals to provide undergraduate teaching; Importance of postgraduate training to achieve cost reductions.

Reports the support of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society on the white paper 'Working for Patients' in Great Britain. Opportunities given by the white paper for the pharmacists; Involvement of pharmacists in providing advice to family practitioner committees and medical practitioners; Role of pharmacists in the treatment of minor symptoms.

Focuses on the campaign against the white paper related to patient care in the National Health Service in Great Britain. Debate on the proposals by the British Medical Association council; Discussions on the letter from the chief medical officer; Implications of the white paper to professional awareness.

Focuses on the publication of the working papers of the National Health Service (NHS) in Great Britain. Renegotatiation of the contracts of general practitioners; Implementation of the NHS review; Role of the Department of Health in the distribution of the working papers to general practitioners.

Discusses a British doctors efforts to set up a coronary ambulance service in Great Britain. How the service would respond to a general practitioner's suspicion of myocardial ischaemia, assess the patient, and take him to hospital if necessary; Persuasion of medical authorities to adopt his idea; Development of an intensive care ambulance service; Treatment of the doctor by the service after he experienced unstable angina.

Reports on professional organizations' welcoming of proposals in the December 1997 white paper on the National Health Service (NHS) in England. Promotion of clinical and cost effectiveness of treatments by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence; Support for the dismantling of the internal market; Need for more capital investments if services were to be improved.

Focuses on the publication of the white paper on environmental policy by the Department of Environment in Great Britain. Criticisms of the green pressure group on environmental policy; Inflationary effects of the Gulf crisis; Imposition of penalty for water pollution.

Presents the response related to the government's white paper proposals for the National Health Services in Great Britain. Scrutiny on the composition of self-governing hospitals and general practitioners' budgets; Interrelations of the program with two-tier system in the medical field; Need to prioritize primary care for elderly and the sick.

Announces the additional 40 million pound for the implementation of Working for Patients in Great Britain. Costs of work on self governing hospitals and general practitioner practice budgets; Allocation for staffs; Implication of the white papers proposals.

Reports on the plans of the restructuring of the National Health Service (NHS) in Great Britain. Effects of the plans on health authorities, hospital managers and family doctors; Speculations of the changes on the NHS Management Board; Uncertainty of the decisions of NHS Chief Executive Duncan Nichol.

Presents information on the British government's white paper entitled `Primary Care: Delivering the Future.' Focus on better teamwork across professional boundaries; Training proposals; Pension scheme; Funding promised for primary care.

Reports on the proposals published by British Health Secretary Alan Milburn for a reform of the Mental Health Act 1983 as part of his plans to modernize the National Health Service in England and Wales. Criticism on the proposals for the permanent detention of people with personality disorder; Details of the joint report from the Department of Health and the Home Office which discussed the management of people with dangerous severe personality disorder.

Presents a letter for Health Secretary Frank Dobson pertaining to ideas on how to improve the National Health Service (NHS) in Great Britain. View on the machinery of the health authority; Suggestion on how to change the culture within the NHS.

Discusses the British government's ten year plan for the National Health Service on the . Focus of the programme; Key feature of the programme; Aim of the plan. INSET: Key components of the ten year plan....

Focuses on the issue of patient anonymity in Great Britain. Complaints of a patient on her easily identifiable features in a hospital case report; Precautionary methods implied to protect patient identification; Emphasis on improving hospital guidelines regarding patient anonymity.

Relates the experience of the author on medical appointment with general practitioner in Great Britain. Failure of the receptionist to allocate medical schedules; Improvement of patient choice in the National Health Service reform; Provision of medical prescription.

Focuses on the significance of the conference 'Putting Principles into Practice,' to the self-governing trusts in Great Britain. Legislation on the formal applications for self-governing status; Importance of the support of doctors for the success of self governing trusts; Creation of trusts for self-governing status and pricing.

Lists the bestsellers in Great Britain in October 1999. `British National Formulary No 38'; `The Insider's Guide to Medical Schools'; `How to Read a Paper: The Basics of Evidence-Based Medicine.'

Focuses on the rejection of the general practitioners of the government's National Health Service (NHS) in Great Britain. Rejection of the government's proposal for general practitioners; Views regarding the white paper of the NHS; Compatibility of the concepts of the white paper with the principles of the NHS.

Editorial. Discusses the National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom. Emphasis of NHS reform proposals; Responsibility of primary care groups; What was intended for primary care groups; Clarification requested by the General Medical Services Committee from the federal government.

Presents the medical studies featured in the 'British Medical Journal' in Great Britain. Focus of the majority of the papers on epidemiology; Number of citations received by the studies included in the list; Citation of pharmacologically oriented papers with the highest ratings. INSETS: 1940s;Concourse No 2;The BMJ's top 50.

Presents several correspondence related to medical care and practice in Great Britain. Reactions of physicians on the principles of the white paper for medical services; Comments on budgetary constraints of the white paper Working for Patients; Population screening for cholesterol.

Comments on the government's objectives for health services in Great Britain. Need for the support of the people; Dismissal of the proposed general practice budgets and self-governing hospitals; Details of the objectives of the white paper.

Reports on a study of accident and emergency departments in Great Britain. Review of literature and papers critical of the services; Results; Quality of studies; Advice on how to improve care in emergency departments, including further education for doctors.

Focuses on the issues concerning the proposals in the white paper 'Promoting Better Health' of the General Medical Services Committee (GMSC) in Great Britain. Implication of the white paper proposals for the National Health Service; Consideration on the concept of the general practice budget; Role of GMSC in the distribution of medical doctors. INSETS: GMSC decisions;MPC classification areas.

Focuses on important issues about the legal and ethical basis of the British government's injunction to health authorities to work with other agencies, which is central to the green papers on public health. Advantage of sharing data in injury surveillance systems; Information on the Data Protection Act of 1998; Threats to an individual's health.

Profiles the late Clegg Hugh, former editor of the 'British Medical Journal' in Great Britain. Preference for scientific papers beneficial to medical practitioners; Praises for the friendship shared with colleagues; Qualities possessed in leading the British Medical Association. INSETS: 1950s;Lord Moran.

Focuses on the activities of British Medical Association (BMA) as of October 1989. Criticism on the freedom of self governing hospitals by the consultants; Effect of the proposition of white paper working for patients by the physicians on medicine; Availability of film and video services at the BMA library.