All Health Service Journal articles in 1999-05-20
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Tarantino
Tarantino sat in the corner of Ardent's office while the American strategist and marketeer completed his daily routine of 200 step-ups. The Yale man was sweating and puffing in a skimpy vest emblazoned with Yo! Notre D! and a pair of positively pornographic running shorts. Tarantino smiled weakly.
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'Tremendous resiliance': settling in
The Red Road flats, in the north of Glasgow, stand in one of the city's poorest neighbourhoods.
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Triage in practice
Receptionists diverted appropriate calls to the triage nurse, while identifying any very urgent cases who could not wait in a queue.
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monitor
It is Monitor's sad duty to report that Dobbo's personal enforcer has met with a little accident. Joe McCrea fell down a flight of restaurant steps and dislocated his shoulder so badly that he spent the rest of the evening learning about the vastly improved A&E services central London hospitals ...
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Millennium offer snubbed by staff
Chief executives in health authorities and trusts across London joined forces this week to offer staff a £150 flat-rate bonus for working on millennium eve.
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Key points
The introduction of nurse telephone triage for patients requesting same- day attention in a GP practice has reduced the number of appointments and home visits for these patients. Patients welcome the opportunity to speak to a health professional when they telephone.
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Tuberculosis: still a serious public health issue
Having some family experience of tuberculosis, your article 'King's Evil reigns again' (news focus, page 14, 29 April) made chilling reading.
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Getting it together: lateral thinking
The majority of teams came from single organisations. But a lateral approach paid off for others.