All Health Service Journal articles in 1999-01-07 – Page 3

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    Key points

    1999-01-07T00:00:00Z

    The NHS can make a considerable contribution to reducing social exclusion and inequalities.

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    Key points

    1999-01-07T00:00:00Z

    A nurse-led clinic providing assessments for surgical patients before their admission has proved popular with patients and staff.

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    Memory lane and the road to the NHS

    1999-01-07T00:00:00Z

    The Aneurin Bevan inheritance The story of the Nevill Hall and District NHS Trust By Gareth Jones Old Bakehouse Publications Tregraig Press 240 pages £20

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    Missed: a motivator

    1999-01-07T00:00:00Z

    primary care groups; Personal gain and influence have always been the most significant factors driving change in general practice. So, asks Ray Wilcox, how will chief officers in primary care groups cope?

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    NHSnet takes pride of place in Scots IT plan

    1999-01-07T00:00:00Z

    Scotland's NHS has published its outline plan for modernising its information technology base. The programme closely mirrors the main themes of the English strategy revealed last September.

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    Nightie-knights

    1999-01-07T00:00:00Z

    staffing; Night nurse clinicians can reduce junior doctors' work, giving them more sleep, and also assist nurses. Barbara Jack and Trish Prescott report on how one hospital has benefited from providing a nightly service

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    Smooth operators

    1999-01-07T00:00:00Z

    pre-admission clinics; Assessing patients in a pre-admission clinic for elective surgery has cut last-minute cancellations and reduced patient anxiety. Angela Stokes- Roberts explains

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    Roll over Romola

    1999-01-07T00:00:00Z

    news focus; Can the DoH's new communications chief ensure that the NHS gets its message across without accusations of political bias? Patrick Butler went to meet her

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    Trust two resign

    1999-01-07T00:00:00Z

    The chief executive and finance director of a community trust at the centre of a police investigation have resigned.

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    Signing on

    1999-01-07T00:00:00Z

    Mechanic Robert Townsend applies national identification markings for emergency vehicles to Royal Berkshire Ambulance trust's fleet. In future, all paramedic ambulances will carry the'battenburg' markings, designed by the police scientific development branch in the wake of Home Office moves to promote an 'instantly recognisable' identity for all emergency vehicles.

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    My way

    1999-01-07T00:00:00Z

    The fall-out from the Patient's Charter review casts doubt on the commitment to inclusivity and consultation on which New Labour prides itself. Patrick Butler considers what went wrong