Department of Health

Cancer Waiting Times- Monitoring the two week target  

Web site research programme   (This site asks for views on the Department of Health's web site)

 NHS Information Authority (NHSIA)

Stakeholder Satisfaction Survey 2001   Full report     SW Region Excel file

SNOMED International and the U.K.’s National Health Service Begin Alpha Test of SNOMED Clinical Terms (issued by CAP) NHSE recommendation: "By March 2003 clinical information systems start to use SNOMED Clinical Terms"

 DEFRA   (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) 

UK Air Quality Strategy- A consultation document on proposals for air quality objectives for particles, benzene, carbon monoxide and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons  document   

news release 17 September 2001

 Home Office

Summary Results from the First Year of the New English and Welsh Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring Research Programme   21 September 2001

 Department for Work and Pensions

National Action Plan on Social Inclusion - 2001-03 

 Government Office South West (GOSW)

South West Regional  Planning Guidance (RPG10)   12th September 2001

 DETLR   (Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions) 

Road Accidents Great Britain 2000 - The Casualty Report  News release 20 September 2001

National Homelessness Strategy - Consultation Exercise   21 September 2001

 National Statistics (ONS) 

Britain Update - September 2001 Edition

  Journal articles

High risk injecting behaviour among injectors from Glasgow: cross sectional community wide surveys 1990-1999
A Taylor, D Goldberg, S Hutchinson, S Cameron, and R FoxJ Epidemiol Community Health 2001; 55: 766-767. [Full text] [PDF]  

Asthma increase could be caused by paracetamol use, study says

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/323/7313/592/c

 

Report may lead to population collection by the back door Jane Kaye BMJ 2001;323 632

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/323/7313/632

US to investigate impact of stigma on health Charles MarwickBMJ 2001; 323: 592i. [Full text]

Life expectancy rates show health inequalitiesLynn Eaton BMJ 2001; 323: 471c. [Full text]  

NB NHS staff now have access to ZETOC, the table of contents of over 20,000 scientific journals. The service became available on Monday 10 September and is available through the NeLH site ( http://www.nelh.nhs.uk/ ).

 Book (NELH Document of the Week)

Social Work, Health and Equality  McLeod & Bywaters

 Conference   Conference

4th Annual Health Impact Assessment Conference 16-17 October 2001, Liverpool  Details
 

 

 

Callum MacLeod 24 September 2001
SWPHO