All Health Service Journal articles in 29 March 2007
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Best practice: how to predict length of stay
Asking patients to answer a unique set of questions about themselves helps assign them to the right beds from the beginning. Heather Waterman and Cherry Mason detail how a new allocation system has been working
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Legal briefing: The Mental Capacity Act
All health care organisations need to make sure that the correct governance arrangements are in place to give effect to patients' rights and monitor application of the Act, writes Peter Marquand
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EARLI impact on reducing acute admissions
A simple tool can do much to help cut emergency hospitalisations. David Lyon and Hannah Chellaswamy explain
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Training school nurses in mental health
The Health Foundation is funding a project showing school nurses how to recognise and manage mental health problems in young people
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Jan Walmsley on leadership clusters
Clustering leaders together for mutual support can not only.aid development and deal with management strategies but also be the solution to system problems beyond the regional
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New labour: the Welsh clinical pathway for childbirth
Swansea University professor of midwifery Billie Hunter has researched into the clinical pathway in Wales, a system designed to document childbirth more carefully